The International Copyright Act 1875
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twelve, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect a convention with France on the subject of copyright; to extend and explain the International Copyright Acts; and to explain the Acts relating to copyright in engravings," it is enacted, that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that authors of dramatic pieces which are, after a future time, to be specified in such order, firs...