58 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN-COPYRIGHT EXTENSION-MAR . 10, 1944
are British nationals of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland and of the British territories named in the list an-
nexed to Your Excellency's note and (2) authors and copyright pro-
prietors who are citizens of Palestine (excluding Trans-Jordan),
whose works are eligible to copyright in the United States of America.
You add that with a view to assuring the Government of the United
States of America of reciprocal protection for authors and copyright
proprietors of the United States of America, His Majesty the King
has made an Order in Council, the text of which accompanies your
note under acknowledgment, which will come into effect from the date
on which the President of the United States of America shall pro-
claim, in accordance with the Act of September 25,1941 that by reason
of the existing emergency British nationals of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the British territories
named in the said list and citizens of Palestine (excluding Trans-
Jordan) who are authors or copyright proprietors of works first pro-
duced or published outside the United States of America and which are
subject to copyright, ad interim copyright or renewal of copyright
under the laws of the United States of America, are at present and
since September 3, 1939 have been temporarily unable to comply with
the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by
the copyright laws of the United States of America.
You further state that His Majesty's Government in the United
Kingdom are prepared, if this proposal should be accepted by the
Government of the United States of America, to regard the note under
acknowledgment and this Government's reply thereto to that effect as
constituting an agreement between the two Governments which shall
take effect this day.
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that, with a view to
giving effect to the commitment proposed in the note under acknowl-
edgment, the President has issued today a proclamation, a copy of
which is annexed hereto, declaring and proclaiming pursuant to the
provisions of the aforesaid Act of September 25, 1941 on the basis of
the assurances set forth in Your Excellency's note and the Order in
Council annexed thereto, that as regards (1) works subject to copy-
right under the laws of the United States of America, including works
eligible to ad interim copyright, which were first produced or pub-
lished outside the United States of America on or after September 3,
1939 by British nationals of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland and of the British territories named in the
aforesaid list, and by the citizens of Palestine (excluding Trans-Jor-
dan); and (2) works of the same authors or copyright proprietors
which were entitled to renewal of copyright on or after September 3,
1939, there existed and continues to exist such disruption or suspension
of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formal-
ities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of
the United States of America as to bring such works within the terms
of the said Act of September 25, 1941 and that accordingly the time
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1-. S. concurrence.
.Antl, 1,. 1129.
5., Stat. 732 .
17 U. . C.. Supp.
III, 8.
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