The Royal Commissions and the Report of the CommissionersG. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1878 - 89 pages |
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Page iv - Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment : And...
Page lxvii - Provided always, that during the term of twentyeight years the said proprietor, projector, publisher, or conductor shall not publish any such essay, article, or portion separately or singly without the consent previously obtained of the author thereof, or his assigns...
Page x - shall be construed to mean and include every Volume, Part or Division of a Volume, Pamphlet, Sheet of Letter-press, Sheet of Music, Map, Chart, or Plan separately published...
Page xxviii - 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...
Page xxxi - An Act to amend the law relating to " the protection in the colonies of works entitled to copyright " in the United Kingdom,"* it is enacted, that in case the legislature or proper legislative authorities in any British possession shall be disposed to make due provision for securing or protecting the rights of British authors in such possession, and shall pass an Act...
Page lxxxii - ... every such offender shall be liable for each and every such representation to the payment of an amount of not less than II)-.., or to the full amount of the benefit or advantage arising from such representation, or the injury or loss sustained by the plaintiff there. from, whichever shall be the greater damages, to the author...
Page lxxxix - ... 1. The original work from which the translation is to be made must be registered, and a copy thereof deposited in the United Kingdom in the manner required for original works by the said International Copyright Act, within three calendar months of its first publication in the foreign country: 2. The author must notify on the...
Page lxviii - Council, on Complaint made to them that the Proprietor of the Copyright in any Book after the Death of its Author has refused to republish or to allow the Republication of the same, and that by reason of such Refusal such Book may be withheld from the Public, to grant a...
Page lxxxviii - Subject which has been so published as aforesaid may, if the source from which the same is taken be acknowledged, be republished or translated in like Manner, unless the Author has signified his Intention of preserving the Copyright therein and the Right of Translating the same in some conspicuous Part of the Newspaper or Periodical in which the same was first published...
Page lxxx - British authors reasonable protection within such possession, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she think fit so to do, to express Her royal approval of such Act or ordinance, and thereupon to issue an Order in Council declaring that so long as the provisions of such Act or ordinance continue in force within such colony the prohibitions contained in the aforesaid...