8. AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT ACT, I905 (Assented to 21st December, 1905)
Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Com- monwealth of Australia as follows: —
Short title
Commence- ment
Parts
Interpreta- tion
PART I. — PRELIMINARY
1. Short Title. — This Act may be cited as the Copy- right Act, 1905.
2. Commencement. — This Act shall commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.
3. Parts. — This Act is divided as follows: —
Part I. — Preliminary.
Part II. — Administration.
Part III. — Literary, Musical, and Dramatic
Copyright. Part IV. — Artistic Copyright. Part V. — Infringement of Copyright. Part VI. — International and State copyright. Part VII. — Registration of Copyrights. Part VIII. — Miscellaneous.
4. Interpretation. — In this Act, unless the contrary in- tention appears —
"Artistic work" includes —
(a) Any painting, drawing, or sculpture; and (6) Any engraving, etching, print, lithograph, wood- cut, photograph, or other work of art produced by any process, mechanical or otherwise, by which impressions or representations of works of art can be taken or multiplied : "Author" includes the personal representatives of an
author : "Book" includes any book or volume, and any part or division of a book or volume, and any article in a book or volume, and any pamphlet, periodical, sheet of let-
