Act, shall be commenced within Six Calendar Months next after the VI. Provided always, That from and immediately after the Expiration of the said Term of Fourteen Years, the sole Right of making and disposing of such new and original Sculpture, or Model, or Copy, or Cast of any of the Matters or Things herein-before mentioned, shall return to the Person or Persons who originally made or caused to be made the same, if he or they shall be then living, for the further Term of Fourteen Years, excepting in the Case or Cases where such Person or Persons shall by Sale or otherwise have divested himself, herself or themselves, of such Right of making or disposing of any new and original Sculpture, or Model, or Copy, or Cast of any of the Matters or Things herein-before mentioned, previous to the passing of this Act.1 An addi tional Term of 14 Years, in case the Maker of the original Sculpture, &c., shall be living. THE DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT ACT, 1833. 3 & 4 WILL. IV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property. [10th June 1833.] I. Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth year of the Reign of 54 G. 3 c. His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the 156. several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of printed Books to the Authors of such Books, or their Assigns, it was amongst other things provided and enacted, that from and after the passing of the said Act the Author of any Book or Books composed, and not printed or published, or which should thereafter be composed and printed and published, and his Assignee or Assigns, should have the sole Liberty of printing and re-printing such Books or Books for the full Term of Twenty-eight Years, to commence from the Day of first publishing the same, and also, if the Author should be living at the End of that Period, for the Residue of his natural Life: And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of the said Act: Be it therefore enacted, That the Author of any Tragedy, Comedy, Play, Opera, Farce, or any other Dramatic Piece or Entertainment, composed, and not printed and published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or which hereafter shall be composed, and not printed or published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or the Assignee of such Author, shall have as his own Property the sole Liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, at any Place or Places of Dramatic Entertainment whatsoever, in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, or in any Part of the British Dominions, any such Production as aforesaid, not printed and published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, and shall be deemed and taken to be the Proprietor thereof; and the Author of any such Pro- Entertainduction, printed and published within Ten Years before the passing of ment. 1 Repealed Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1873 (1). 2 Repealed Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1890 (2). 3 5 See p. 135. The Author of any Drashall have matic Piece as his Property the sole Liberty of representing it or causing it to be represented at any Place of Proviso as to Cases where, pre vious to the passing of has been given. Penalty on Pieces con trary to this Act. this Act by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or which shall hereafter be so printed and published, or the Assignee of such Author, shall, from the Time of passing this Act, or from the Time of such Publication respectively, until the End of Twenty-eight Years from the Day of such first Publication of the same, and also, if the Author or Authors, or the Survivor of the Authors, shall be living at the End of that period, during the Residue of his natural Life,1 have as his own Property the sole Liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, the same at any such Place of Dramatic Entertainment as aforesaid, and shall be deemed and taken to be the Proprietor thereof: Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice, alter, or affect the Right or Authority of any Person to represent or cause to be represented, at any Place or Places of Dramatic Entertainment whatsoever, any such Production as aforesaid, in all Cases in which the Author thereof or his Assignee shall, previously to the passing of this Act, have given his Consent to or authorised such Representation, but that such sole Liberty of the Author or his Assignee shall be subject to such Right or Authority. II. If any Person shall, during the Continuance of such sole Liberty as aforesaid, contrary to the Intent of this Act, or Right of the Author or performing his Assignee, represent, or cause to be represented, without the Consent in Writing 2 of the Author or other Proprietor first had and obtained, at any Place of Dramatic Entertainment within the Limits aforesaid, any such Production as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, every such Offender shall be liable for each and every such Representation to the Payment of an Amount not less than Forty Shillings, or to the full Amount of the Benefit or Advantage arising from such Representation, or the Injury or Loss sustained by the Plaintiff therefrom, whichever shall be the greater Damages, to the Author or other Proprietor of such Production so represented contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, to be recovered, together with Double Costs of Suit, by such Author or other Proprietors, in any Court having Jurisdiction in such Cases in that Part of the said United Kingdom or of the British Dominions in which the Offence shall be committed; and in every such Proceeding where the sole Liberty of such Author or his Assignee as aforesaid shall be subject to such Right or Authority as aforesaid it shall be sufficient for the Plaintiff to state that he has such sole Liberty, without stating the same to be subject to such Right or Authority, or otherwise mentioning the same. Limitation III. Provided nevertheless, That all Actions or Proceedings for any of Actions. Offence or Injury that shall be committed against this Act shall be brought, sued, and commenced within Twelve Calendar Months next after such Offence committed, or else the same shall be void and of no effect. Explana tion of Words. IV. Whenever Authors, Persons, Offenders, or others are spoken of in this Act in the singular Number or in the Masculine Gender, the same shall extend to any Number of Persons and to either Sex. 1 See p. 126. 2 See p. 142. 3 A "full and reasonable indemnity" substituted by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, sec. 2. See p. 144. THE LECTURES COPYRIGHT ACT, 1835.1 5 & 6 WILL. IV. c. 65. An Act for preventing the Publication of Lectures without Consent. or their Assigns, to have the sole Right of publishing them. Penalty on other perlishing, &c., sons pubLectures without I. Whereas Printers, Publishers, and other Persons have frequently taken the Liberty of printing and publishing Lectures delivered upon divers Subjects, without the Consent of the Authors of such Lectures, or the Persons delivering the same in Public, to the great Detriment of such Authors and Lecturers: Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of September One thousand eight Authors of hundred and thirty-five2 the Author of any Lecture or Lectures, or the Lectures, Person to whom he hath sold or otherwise conveyed the Copy thereof, in order to deliver the same in any School, Seminary, Institution, or other Place, or for any other Purpose, shall have the sole Right and Liberty of printing and publishing such Lecture or Lectures; and if any Person shall, by taking down the same in Short Hand or otherwise in Writing, or in any other Way, obtain or make a Copy of such Lecture or Lectures, and shall print or lithograph or otherwise copy and publish the same, or cause the same to be printed, lithographed, or otherwise copied and published, without Leave of the Author thereof, or of the Person to whom the Author thereof hath sold or otherwise conveyed the same, and every Person who, knowing the same to have been printed or copied and published without such Consent, shall sell, publish, or expose to sale, or cause to be sold, published, or exposed to sale, any such Lecture or Lectures, shall forfeit such printed or otherwise copied Lecture or Lectures, or Parts thereof, together with One Penny for every Sheet thereof which shall be found in his Custody, either printed, lithographed, or copied, or printing, lithographing, or copying, published or exposed to sale, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, the one Moiety thereof to His Majesty, and the other Moiety thereof to any Person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Westminster, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in which no Wager of Law, Essoign, Privilege, or Protection, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed.8 II. Any Printer or Publisher of any Newspaper who shall, without such Leave as aforesaid, print and publish in such Newspaper any Lecture or Lectures, shall be deemed and taken to be a Person printing and publishing without Leave within the Provisions of this Act, and liable to the aforesaid Forfeitures and Penalties in respect of such printing and publishing. Leave. Penalty on Publishers papers publishing Lectures without Leave. III. No Person allowed for certain Fee and Reward, or otherwise, to Persons attend and be present at any Lecture delivered in any Place, shall be having Leave to deemed and taken to be licensed or to have Leave to print, copy, and attend Lec- publish such Lectures only because of having Leave to attend such tures not on that Account licensed to publish them. Act not to prohibit the publishing of Lectures after Ex piration of the Copy right. 8 Anne, c. 19. 54 G. 3 c. 156. Act not to extend to Lectures Places, &c. Lecture or Lectures. IV. Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall extend to prohibit any Person from printing, copying, and publishing any Lecture or Lectures which have or shall have been printed and published with Leave of the Authors thereof or their Assignees, and whereof the Time hath or shall have expired within which the sole Right to print and publish the same is given by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned, and by another Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of printed Books to the Authors of such Books, or their Assigns, or to any Lectures which have been printed or published before the passing of this Act. V. Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall extend to any Lecture or Lectures, or the printing, copying, or publishing any Lecture delivered in or Lectures, or Parts thereof, of the delivering of which Notice in Writing unlicensed shall not have been given to Two Justices living within Five Miles from the Place where such Lecture or Lectures shall be delivered Two Days at the least before delivering the same, or to any Lecture or Lectures delivered in any University or public School or College, or on any public Foundation, or by any individual in virtue of or according to any Gift, Endowment, or Foundation; and that the Law relating thereto shall remain the same as if this Act had not been passed. 17 G. 3 c. 57. Provisions of Recited Act extended to Ireland. Penalty on engraving or publishing any Print with THE PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS COPYRIGHT ACT, 1836. An Act to extend the Protection of Copyright in Prints and Engravings I. WHEREAS an Act was passed (17 G. III. c. 57): And whereas it is desirable to extend the Provisions of the said Act to Ireland: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the Passing of this Act all the Provisions contained in the said recited Act and of all other Acts therein recited, shall be and the same are hereby extended to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. II. From and after the Passing of this Act, if any Engraver, Etcher, Printseller, or other Person shall, within the Time limited by the aforesaid recited Acts, engrave, etch, or publish, or cause to be engraved, etched, or published, any Engraving or Print of any Description whatever, either in whole or in part, which may have been or which shall hereafter be Proprietor. published in any Part of Great Britain or Ireland without the express Consent of the Proprietor or Proprietors thereof first had and obtained in Writing, signed by him, her, or them respectively, with his, her, or out Consent of their own Hand or Hands in the Presence of and attested by Two or more credible Witnesses, then every such Proprietor shall and may, by and in a separate Action upon the Case, to be brought against the Person so offending in any Court of Law in Great Britain or Ireland, recover such Damages as a Jury on the Trial of such Action or on the execution of a Writ of Inquiry thereon shall give or assess, together with Double Costs of Suit.1 THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1836. 6 & 7 WILL. IV. C. 110. An Act to repeal so much of 54 Geo. III. c. 156 as requires the delivery of a Copy of every published Book to the Libraries of Sion College, the Four Universities of Scotland and of the King's Inns in Dublin. [20th August 1836.] I. [Clause repealing 54 Geo. III. c. 156 in so far as it requires the delivery of books to the above libraries: Repealed Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1874.] II. It shall be lawful for the Treasury from time to time to issue and pay out of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the person or persons or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of each of the aforesaid libraries, such an annual sum as may be equal in value to and compensation for the loss which any such library may sustain by reason of the said Act being repealed so far as relates to such library; such annual compensation to be ascertained and determined according to the value of the books which may have been actually received by each such library in such manner as the Treasury shall direct upon an average of the three years ending June 30, 1836. III. The person or persons or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of the library for the use whereof any such book would have been delivered, shall and they are hereby required to apply the annual compensation hereby authorised to be made in the purchase of books of literature, science and the arts, for the use of and to be kept and preserved in such library. Provided always that it shall not be lawful for the Treasury to direct the issue of any sum of money for such annual compensation until sufficient proof shall have been adduced before them of the application of the money last issued to the purpose aforesaid. THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1842. 5 & 6 VICT. C. 45. An Act to amend the Law of Copyright. [1st July 1842.] I. Whereas it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Copyright, and to afford greater Encouragement to the Production of literary Works of lasting Benefit to the World2: Be it enacted, That from the passing of this 1 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, sec. 2, substitutes "a full and reasonable indemnity." 2 Repealed Stat. Law Rev. Act 1890 (2). See p. 13. |