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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. such foreign author under this Act or by treaty j or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which pro- vides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto: AND WHEREAS it is provided by Section 1 (e) of the said Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1909, that the provisions of the Act "so far as they secure copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the works of a foreign author or composer unlesS-the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of the United States similar rights"; 2981 AND WHEREAS the President is authorized by the said Section 8 to determine by proclamation made from time to time the existence of the re~iprocal conditions aforesaid, as the purposes of the Act may reqUIre; AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurances have been Action by Finland. received that on and after January 1, 1929, citizens of the United States shall be entitled to obtain copyright for their works in Finland which is substantially equal to the protection afforded by the copy- right laws of the United States, including rights similar to those provided by Section 1 (e) of the Copyright Act of the United States, approved March 4, 1909. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United cilfz~':,~f1 ~i:.i States of America, do declare and proclaim eluding mechanical re- That on and after January 1, 1929, the conditions specified in productions. Sections 8 (b) and 1 (e) of the Act of March 4, 1909, will exist and be fulfilled in respect to the citizens of Finland and that on and after January 1, 1929, citizens of Finland shall be entitled to all the bene- fits of the Act of March 4, 1909, including Section 1 (e) thereof and the Acts amendatory of the said Act. PROVIDED that the enjoyment by any work of the rights and Conditions. benefits conferred by the Act of March 4, 1909, and the Acts amend- atory thereof, shall be conditional upon compliance with the require- ments and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States. AND PROVIDED FURTHER that the provisions of Section 1 (e) of the Act of March 4, 1909, in so far as they secure copyright con- trolling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically musical works shall apply only to compositions published after July 1, 1909, and registered for copyright in the United States which have not been reproduced within the United States prior to January 1, 1929, on any contrivance by means of which the work may be mechan- ically performed. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. . Done at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand rune hundred and [SEAL] twenty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: . FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE

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