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548 COPYRIGHT

6a. FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT ACT, 1 862 [Unrepealed Sections]

(25 & 26 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 68)

Penalties on VII. No Person shall do or cause to be done any or fraudulent either of the following Acts; that is to say, and Sir"*** First, no Person shall fraudulently sign or otherwise

aiiEx, or fraudulently cause to be signed or other- wise affixed, to or upon any Painting, Drawing, or Photograph, or the Negative thereof, any Name, Initials, or Monogram: Secondly, no Person shall fraudulently sell, publish, exhibit, or dispose of, or offer for Sale, Exhibition, or Distribution, any Painting, Drawing, or Photo- graph, or Negative of a Photograph, having thereon the Name, Initials, or Monogram of a Person who did not execute or make such Work: Thirdly, no Person shall fraudulently utter, dispose of, or put off, or cause to be uttered or disposed of, any Copy or colourable Imitation of any Painting, Drawing, or Photograph, or Negative of a Photo- graph, whether there shall be subsisting Copyright therein or not, as having been made or executed by the Author or Maker of the original Work from which such Copy or Imitation shall have been taken: Fourthly, where the Author or Maker of any Painting, Drawing, or Photograph, or Negative of a Photo- graph, made either before or after the passing of this Act, shall have sold or otherwise parted with the Possession of such Work, if any Alteration shall afterwards be made therein by any other Person, by Addition or otherwise, no Person shall be at liberty, during the Life of the Author or Maker of such Work, without his Consent, to make or know- ingly to sell or publish, or offer for Sale, such Work or any Copies of such Work so altered as aforesaid,