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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 15, 1952

[67 STAT.

D O N E at the City of Washington this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DAVID BRUCE

Acting Secretary of State

COPYRIGHT—PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO October 15, 1952 [No. 2993]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 9 of title 17 of the United States Code, entitled "Copyrights", as codified and enacted into positive law by the act of Congress approved July 30, 1947, 61 Stat. 652, provides in part that the copyright secured by said title shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation only: Alien author domiciled in U. S, Reciprocal conditions.

61 Stat. 652.

Musical compositions includible.

61 Stat. 655.

"(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, convention, 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."; and

WHEREAS section 1 of the said title 17 provides in part as follows: "Any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of this title, shall have the exclusive right: "(e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition;... Provided, That the provisions of this title, 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 July 1, 1909, 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."; and

WHEREAS section 9 of the said title 17 further provides that " The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this title may require..."; and WHEREAS a Sovereign Ordinance has been issued this day by His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco whereby citizens of the United States as of this day are entitled to obtain copyright protection in the Principality of Monaco for all their artistic and literary works on substantially the same basis as nationals of Monaco, including rights similar to those provided by section 1(e) of the said title 17:

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