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PROCLAMATIONS, 1922. 2273 BY uns: Pnmsrnmnr or run Unrrrzn Sriwrms or Ammuoa A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is provided by the Act of Con ess, approved March 4, 1909, entitled "An Act to Amend and Consoliglate the Acts Respect- V°!· 35· P- Iming Copyright" that the copyright secured by the Act except the benefits under Section 1 (e) thereof as to which special conditions ` are imposed, shall extend to the work of an author or roprietor who IS a citizen or subjlect of a foreign state or nation, onlly upon certain conditions set fort in section 8 of said Act, to wit: v°*‘ °5’P‘ N"' (a) an alien author or fproprietor shall be domiciled within the United States, at the time o the first ublication of his work; or _(b) When the foreign state or nation ofp which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copy- right on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copy- right protection substantiallg equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this ct or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international ageement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyrig t, by the terms of which the agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become It IS Br rovi y G ctc O bud d ”*iiiiziitiziit1$$£ms· · ara dedb ai A foo ¤···~¤··~·¤¤···>······= approved December 18, 1919, entitiied "An Act to Amend Sections 8 Wg,¤{_1X¤=lu:: in and 21 of the Coriyright Act, approved March 4, 1909 " " that all ’P' works made the su ject of cogyrig t by the laws of the United States firstdproduced or published a road after August 1, 1914, and before the ate of the President’s proclamation of peace, of which the authors or proprietors are citizens or subjects of any foreign state or nation, Qanting similar protection for works by citizens of the United States, t e existence of which shall be dBt6I'IIl1D8d by a copyright proclamation issued by the President of the United States, s all be entitledto 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 of the President’s proclamation of peace, of the conditions and formalities lprescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the nited States: Provided further, That nothinglherein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of any rig t which he may have acquired by the republication of such foreign work in the United States prior to the aptproval of this Act;" A D WHEREAS the President is authorize to determine and declare gy proclamation made from time to time the existence of the reciproc conditions aforesaid, as the purposes of the Act may require; WHEREAS the President by proclamation date A(£ri1 9, V¤L%,p.2>86. 1910, did declare and proclaim that one of the alternative con `tions apecified in Section 8 of the Act of March 4, 1909, was then and from W- ¤5.v1>-1W¤,w¤· uly 1, 1909, had been fulhlled in respect to the subjects of Austria, an that the subjects of Austria were and since July 1, 1909, had been entitled to all the benefits of the said Act other t an the benefits of Section 1 (e) thereof; AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurance has been given m;,_*,,°§‘,§’}‘,,,,‘;§°'°'°' by the Government of Austria that byTthe laws of Austria protection is granted for works b citizens of the nited States similar to the protection rovided b the Act, a proved December 18 1919. NOWPTHEREFYORE, I, WParren G. Harding, President of the ,,,,§’,§‘,,§°‘,§°,§‘uS°“,,‘?,§°,§$ United States of America, do hereby declare and Broclaim ;¤¢k;g>¤¤—“I¤;g¤·}\g¤:¤$ 1. That the conditions specified in the Act of ecember 18, 1919, Uiumbates. now exist and are fulfilled m respect to the citizens of Austria, and