THE COPYRIGHT BILL.
SOME OF THE PROVISIONS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, April 8. The Copyright Bill, which has been read a second time in the House of Commons, seeks to give effect to the recommendations of the Berlin Convention of 1908. It affects dramatised novels, the translation of lectures into original adaptations, and artistic and architectural works hitherto excluded from the copyright. It also protects musical works against mechanical productions. In future a copyright will subsist during the life of an author and fifty years thereafter. Power is given the Comptroller of Patents to license the publication of books unduly withheld from the public.' The Right Hon. S. Buxton said he believed' the Bill would assist the publication o ea hfepitiednos publication of cheap editions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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127THE COPYRIGHT BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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