An Act to amend the Law respecting International and Colonial Copyright.
WHEREAS by the International Copyright Acts Her Majesty is authorised by Order in Council to direct that as regards literary and artistic works first published in a foreign country the author shall have copyright therein during the period specified in the order, not exceeding the period during which authors of the like works first published in the United Kingdom have copyright: And whereas at an international conference held at Berne in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and ei...