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1868.
Copyright Act of 1868.
Cap. 54.
149

is the author of any book, map, chart, or musical composition, or of any original painting, drawing, statuary, sculpture or photograph, or who invents, designs, etches, engraves or causes to be engraved, etched or made from his own design, any print or engraving, and the legal representatives of such persons, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, reproducing and vending such literary, scientific or artistical works or compositions, in whole or in part, and of allowing translations to be made of such literary works from one language into other languages, for the term of twenty-eight years, from the time of recording the title thereof in the manner hereinafter directed; Proviso.but no immoral or licentious, treasonable or seditious book or any other such literary, scientific or artistical work or composition shall be the subject of such registration or Copyright.

Renewal and continuation of copyright.4. If at the expiration of the aforesaid term, such author, or any of the authors, where the work has been originally composed and made by more than one person, be still living, and residing in Canada or in Greats Britain or Ireland, or being dead, has left a widow or a child, or children living, the same exclusive right shall be continued to such author, or if dead, then to such widow and child or children, (as the case may be) for the further time of fourteen years; Condition. but in such case within one year after the expiration of the first term, the title of the work secured shall be a second time recorded, and all other regulations herein required to be observed in regard to original Copyrights shall be complied with in respect to such renewed Copyrights.

Record of renewal to be published.5. In all cases of renewal of Copyright under this Act, the author or proprietor shall, within two months from the date of such renewal, cause a copy of the record thereof to be published once in the Canada Gazette.

Deposit of copies in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.6. No person shall be entitled to the benefit of this Act, unless he has deposited in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture two copies of such book, map, chart, musical composition, photograph, print, cut, or engraving, and in case of paintings, drawings, statuary and sculptures, unless he has furnished a written description of such works of art, and the Minister of Agriculture shall cause the same to be recorded forthwith in a book to be kept for that purpose, in the manner prescribed by the rules and forms which may be made, from time to time, as herebefore provided, for which record the person claiming such right as aforesaid, shall pay into the hands of the Minister of Agriculture one dollar, and the like sum for every copy actually given to such person or his legal representatives, and the sums so paid shall be paid over to the Receiver General to form part of the Consolidated Revenue of Canada.

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