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 2998 17 U. S. 0., Supp. I, §1 asq. 62 Stat, Pt. 1, pp.202, 1009; Pt. 2, p. 1568. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. "(a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or "(b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, conven- tion, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection, substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this title or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto." WHEREAS, satisfactory official assurances have been received that, on and after October 21, 1948, pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress, approved July 30, 1947, (61 Stat. 652), citizens of the Philip- pines are entitled to obtain copyright protection for their works in the United States which is substantially equal to the protection afforded by the copyright laws of the Philippines and which is afforded on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of the United States; Now, THEREFORE, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philip- pines, do hereby declare and proclaim: That on and after October 21, 1948, the conditions specified in section 10 (b) of the aforementioned Act No. 3134 of the Philippine Legislature of March 6, 1924, do exist and are fulfilled in respect of the citizens of the United States and that on and after October 21, 1948, citizens of the United States shall be entitled to all the benefits of the said Act; Provided, That the enjoyment by any work of the rights and benefits conferred by the said Act shall be conditional upon compliance with the requirements and formalities proscribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the Philippines. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Inde- pendence of the Philippines, the third. [SEAL] ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: EMILIO ABELLO Executive Secretary

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