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 2844 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. New Zealand, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Copyright Act, 1913, doth hereby direct as follows:- 1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (United States of America) Order 1946. 2. This Order shall come into force on the date of the notification in the Gazette of the making thereof. 3. The Copyright Act, 1913, shall, subject to the provisions of the said Act and of this Order, apply to works first published in the United States of America during the period commencing on the 3rd day of September, 1969, and ending one year after the termination of the present war, which have not been repub- lished in New Zealand within fourteen days of the publication in the United States of America, in like manner as if they had been first published within New Zealand: Provided that the enjoyment by any such work of the rights conferred by the Copyright Act, 1913, shall be conditional upon publication of the work within New Zealand not later than one year after the termination of the present war, and shall commence from and after such publication, which shall not be colourable only, but shall be intended to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public. 4. The provisions of section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1913, as to the delivery of books to the General Assembly Library, shall apply to works to which this Order relates upon their publication in New Zealand. 5. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as depriving any work of any rights which have been lawfully acquired under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1913, or any Order in Council thereunder. 6. Where any person has, before the commencement of this Order, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any work which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such reproduction or performance would, but for the making of this Order, have been lawful, nothing in this Order shall diminish or prejudice any rights or interest arising from or in connection with such action which were subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the person who by virtue of this Order becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration. W. O. HAVEY Acting Clerk of the Executive Counoil. The Acting Secretary of State to the Ministerof New Zealand DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON Apr 24 1947 SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of today's date in which you refer to the Act of Congress approved September 25, 55 Stat. 732. 1941 which authorizes the President to extend by proclamation the 17 U.S.C. 8. 61stat., Pt.l ,p.652. time for compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright laws of the United States of America with respect to works first produced or published outside the United States of America and subject to copyright under the laws of the United States of America when the authors, copyright owners, or proprietors of such works are or may have been temporarily unable to comply with those conditions and formalities because of the disruption or sus- pension of the facilities essential to such compliance. You state that by reason of conditions arising out of World War II

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