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 2274 PROCLAMATIONS, 1922. uggsjggl P’°**‘*°*i°'”> that Austrian citizens are entitled to all the benefits of the said Copy- V<>1-36;p-2685- right Act, approved December 18, 1919, subject to the exception spec- , ified in the agoresaid proclamation of April 9, 1910 i _ _ °°mu"°”S' Provided that the enjoyment by any work to which the provisions of this proclamation relate of the rights and benents conferred by the Copyright Act a proved December 18, 1919, shall be conditional upon compliance witlif the requirements and formalities prescribed with res act to such works by the copyright laws of the United States, and shaill commence from and after compliance with those requirements, constituting due registration for copmht in the United States. mm§,*,§§,g‘§;;’8§,SP${’g 2. Nothinglin this proclamation s be construed to abrogate or A¤v;g*¤35¤¤t egggga limit any rig ts and benehts conferred under the reciprocal arrange— as,p.ess&.p` men¥s_w;1h Austria providing for copyright protection heretofore proc aim . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have herenmto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and [snn.] twenty-two and of the Indeependence of the United States of America the one hundr and forty-sixth. WARREN G Hannmo By the President: Cm-xELEs E. Huerrns Secretary of State. Mav %, 1922. -——————— Br THE Piznsmmrrr or Tim UNITED STATES or ZLMERIOA A PROCLAMATION · WHEREAS it is rovided by the Act of Congress, a roved March VN-35.p.10vs. 4, 1299, eiptitled  tict 231 Amend and Consialildateliiahg Acts Res mg op ,’ at e co t secure the ct except tggcbeneiits uyiiifer Section 1 (e) tgixiiigof, as to whibh special conditions _8l'0 unpxmed, shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon V¤*·35·r>·1°`¤'- certam conditions set forth m section _8 of said Act, to wit: (a) When an ahen author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or jb) When the foreign state or nation o which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either bg treaty convention agreement, or law, to_ citizens of the United tates the ibeneht of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to suc forexgnauthor under this Act or by treatiy; or when such foreign state or nation 1s_a party to an internationa agipeement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyrig t by the terms of w;iphtsi.1greeiment the United States may, at its pleasure, become a p ere o: _ _ _ ,,,,§§,§’§“°‘f{’,{‘,,,g;"°{,$ AND WHEREAS 1t is further prov1ded by the Act of Congress Wii§€:i;“,§j36,_ approved December 18, 1919, entitled "An Act to Amend Sections 8 and 21 of the Copyright Act, approved March 4, 1909," " that all works made the subject of copyrig t by the laws of the United States first (produced or jipblished a road after August 1, 1914, and before the ate of the_ res1dentls_ proclamation of eace, of which the authors or proprietors are citizens or subjects ofp any foreign state or nation granting similar protection for works by citizens of the United States, the existence 0 which shall be determined by a co yright proclamation issued by_the President of the United States, siliall be entitled to the protection conferred by the copyright laws of the