PROCLAMATIONS-MAR . 6 , 10, 1944
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this 6th day of March, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of
[SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and sixty-eighth.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
By the President:
E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr.
Acting Secretary of State
COPYRIGHT EXTENSION: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
NORTHERN IRELAND (INCLUDING CERTAIN BRITISH TERRITORIES)
AND PALESTINE
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS by the act of Congress approved September 25, 1941,
c. 421, 55 Stat. 732, the President is authorized, on the conditions
prescribed in that act, to grant an extension of time for the fulfilment
of the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright laws of
the United States of America with respect to works first produced or
published outside of the United States of America and subject to copy-
right or to renewal of copyright under the laws of the United States of
America, including works subject to ad interim copyright, by nationals
of countries which accord substantially equal treatment to citizens of
the United States of America; and
WHEREAS His Britannic Majesty has issued an Order in Council,
effective from this day, by the terms of which treatment substantially
equal to that authorized by the aforesaid act of September 25, 1941,
is accorded, within the British dominions, colonies, protectorates, and
mandated territories to which that order applies, to literary and artistic
works first produced or published in the United States of America; and
WHEREAS the aforesaid Order in Council applies to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, British India,
British Burma, Southern Rhodesia, Aden Colony, Bahamas, Bar-
bados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, Bermuda, British
Guiana, British Honduras, British Solomon Islands Protectorate,
Ceylon, Cyprus, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Fiji, Gambia
(Colony and Protectorate), Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Colony, Gold Coast ((a) Colony, (b) Ashanti, (c) Northern Terri-
tories), Hong Kong, Jamaica (including Turks and Caicos Islands and
the Cayman Islands), Kenya (Colony and Protectorate), Leeward
Islands (Antigua, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis, Virgin
Islands), Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria ((a) Colony, (b) Protectorate),
Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland Protectorate, Palestine (excluding
Trans-Jordan), St. Helena and Ascension, Seychelles, Sierra Leone
(Colony and Protectorate), Somaliland Protectorate, Straits Settle-
ments, Swaziland, Trans-Jordan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda
Protectorate, and Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Vincent, Grenada,
St. Lucia); and
March 10, 1944
[No. 2508]
17 U. 8. C., Bupp.
III, S.
1129
58 STAT.]
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