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1790 PROCLAMATIONS, 1920. Aprl110,1¤. Br um Pairsmmwr or rn Umrnn Sums or Aimmca A PROCLAMATION · °°¥'Y'*@*'· WHEREAS it is rovided by the Act of Congress of March 4, 1999, $i•°i.`?¤in1iZ xm. entitled "An Act tl:) Amend and Consplidate the Acts Respectrng Copyright/’ that the ovisions of Section 1 (e) of sand Act, ‘so far as they secure co controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work include only compositionsypublished and copgighted after this Act goes mto effect, and shall not include the wor of a foreign author or composer unless ` the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law to citizens of the United States similar r1ghts": _ AND WHEREAS it is further provided that the copyright secured by the Act shall extend to the work of an author oiglproprietor who · is a citizen or sub’ect of a foreign state or nation, o y upon certain v°'· 35* p' W"' conditions set forth in section 8 of said Act, to wit: _ _ _ _ (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall domiciled within the United States at the time of the first ublication of his work; or _(b) When the foreign state or nation ofp which such author or propnetor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, orcopynght protection substantially equal to_ the protection secured to suc foreign author imder this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement whic provides for reciprocity in the dgranting of copyright, by the terms of which cement the Unite States may, at its pleasure, become a art thereto: °‘ ,§Q',§’§‘,{°§‘,‘§,‘}‘}§,‘,;°’,,,"§ AND W§1EgEAS it is further provided by the Act of Congress Wjgglcwvém approved December 18 1919, "that all works made the subject of ’p` ° copy§ht by the laws of the United States first produced or published abro after August 1, 1914, and before the date of the President’s proclamation of peace, of which the authors or proprietors are citizens or subjects of any foreign state or nation granting similar protection for works by citizens of the United States, the existence of which shall be determined by a co ht proclamation issued by the President of the United States s entitled to the protection conferred by the copyright laws of the United States from and after . the accomplishment, before the expiration of fifteen months after the date o the ,President’s proclamation of peace, of the conditions and formalities prescribed with respprct to such works by the copy- right laws of the United States: ovided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of any right whichhe mag have acquired b the republication of such foreign work m the Unite States ppior to tlie approval of this Act. " AND WHEREAS the esident is authorized to determine and declare by proclamation the existence of similar protection for works by_ citizens of the United States as the purposes of the Act may re- 0 qmre; _ m:iiti»°i°e¤tfe AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurance has been given by the Government of Great Britain that, by virtue of the authority conferred by the_Br1tish Coplyright Act, 1911, a British Order in Council was duly issued on Fe mary 9, 1920, directing that:—— " 1._The Copg·nght_Act, 1911, shall, subject to the rovisions of the_sa1d Act an of this Order, apply to works Erst publiished in the United States of America between the lst August, 1914, and the termination of the war, which have not been republished prior to the commencement of this Order in the parts of His Majesty’s Domin-