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 c6 Finland. Copyright extension.

Term of copyright; nonliability for prior acts, etc.

PROCLAMATIONS—NOV. 26, 1951

[66 STAT.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid title 17, do declare and proclaim: That with respect to (1) works of citizens of Finland which were first produced or published outside the United States of America on or after September 3, 1939, and subject to copyright under the laws of the United States of America, and (2) worts of citizens of Finland subject to renewal of copyright under the laws of the United States of America on or after September 3, 1939, there has existed during several years of the time since September 3, 1939, such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States of America as to bring such works within the terms of the aforesaid title 17, and that, accordingly, the time within which compliance with such conditions and formalities may take place is hereby extended with respect to such works for one year after the date of this proclamation. I t shall be understood that the term of copyright in any case is not and cannot be altered or affected by this proclamation, and that, as provided by the aforesaid title 17, no liability shall attach under the said title for lawful uses made or acts done prior to the effective date of this proclamation in connection with the above-described works, or in respect to the continuance for one year subsequent to such date 01 any business undertaking or enterprise lawfully entered into prior to such date involving expenditure or contractual obligation in connection with the exploitation, production, reproduction, circulation, or performance of any such work. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ^ JAMES E. W E B B

Acting Secretary of State

TERMINATING IN PART PROCLAMATION N O. 2761A OF DECEMBER 16, 1947 AND PROCLAMATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL THE R E TO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES November 26, 1951 [No. 2954]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS (pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the act of June 12, 1934, by the joint resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by sections 2 and 3 of the act of July 5, 1945 (ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943; ch. 118, 57 Stat. 125; ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410), the period for the exercise of the authority 19 USC 1351. 48 Stat. 943; 59 Stat. under the said section 350 having been extended by section 1 of the 410. said act of July 5, 1945, until the expiration of three years from June 19 USC 1352 (c). 12, 1945), on October 30, 1947, I entered into a trade agreement with the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the

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