38o COPYRIGHT
were chiefly effective, ^ since its introduction as a Government measure in 1910, In the earlier form it was provided that the contributor of an article or contribution, periodical articles included, might retain a specific copyright except as against the pro- prietor of a collective work, and that an article in a newspaper, not being a tale or serial story, might be reproduced in another newspaper in default of a notice expressly forbidding it, providing the source were duly acknowledged. University copyrights, new as well as old, it was then proposed should still be perpetual. Copyright, it was specifically provided, should not pass from an artist when he sells his ori- ginal work except by agreement in writing, but subse- quent transfers of the original work from an owner also of the copyright, should transfer the copyright -^ but this is probably taken as implied in the new law. Registration at Stationers' Hall was continued and made applicable to all classes of works, and though optional, it was practically necessitated by the in- genious provision that in the absence of such regis-' tration an infringer might plead ignorance and be freed from damages. The summary provisions of the musical copyright acts were extended to cover other works, and these acts it was therefore proposed to repeal. The compulsory license provision limiting musical copyright and certain provisions as to owner- ship and term were introduced in the Committee stage. The word "infringing" was substituted for "piratical" in Parliamentary debate to conciliate a supersensitive member. The compromises and mod- ifications indicated brought the measure before Parliament as an "agreed upon" bill. Isle of Man The Isle of Man applies the copyright law of the United Kingdom, and has a supplementary law of 1907, applying British legislation on engravings and
