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��Copyright Act, 1911.

��§ 31. against jJorsons who deal with a work in breach of con- tract, trust, or confidence, is left intact. This will enable proceedings to be brought, irrespective 6t copyright, to restrain the jDublication of private photographs, notes of private lectures, letters written between corresjDondeuts in confidential relationship to one another, manuscripts of books or plays lent for private use or submitted to a publisher or stage manager for perusal, and similar works not intended for publication. It will have to be shown, however, in each case, that the defendant was either iiimself guilty of the breach of contract, trust, or confidence .alleged, or that he knowingl}^ took advantage of some breach of contract, trust, or confidence ou the part of another.

��Provisions as to Order in Council.

��32. — (1) His Majesty in Council may make

��Orders for altering, revokin

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��ymg any

��Order in Council made under this Act, or under any enactments repealed by this Act, but any Order made under this section shall not affect prejudicially any rights or interests acquired or accrued at the date when the Order comes into operation, and shall provide for the protection of such rights and interests.

(2) Every Order in Council made under this Act shall be published in the London Gazette and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.

��Saving of university copyright. 15 Geo. 3. c. 53.

��33. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any of the universities and colleges mentioned in the Copyright Act, 1775, of any copyright they already possess under that Act, but the remedies and penalties for infringement of any such copy- right shall be under this Act and not under that Act.

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