Special Provisions as to certain Works. 125
Eeports of Inquiries into Explosions or iVcci § ig.
dents and other Special Reports made to Govern- ■
ment Departments. 4. Acts of Parliament. i). Official books, e.g., King's Regulations for the
Army or Navy.
As regards the following works, the Treasury declares Governmeut its intention of enforcing copyright so that their cost of publications production may be met by the proceeds of the sale of which^copy- copies to the public, and the taxpayer be thus relieved. right is
asserted.
1. Literary or quasi-literary work, e.g., the Reports
of the Challenger Expedition, the Rolls Publi- cations, the State Trials, the " Board of Trade Journal."
2. Charts or Or'dnance Maps.
19. (1) Copyright (p) shall subsist in records, Provisions as
(. in 1 .1 , • 1 to mechanical
periorated rolls, and other contrivances by means instruments.
of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced,
in like manner as if such contrivances were
musical works, but the term of copyright shall be
fifty years from the making of the original
plate (q) from which the contrivance was directly
or indirectly derived, and the person who was the
owner of such original plate at the time when
such plate was made shall be deemed to be the
author of the work, and, where such owner is a
body corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed
for the purposes of this Act (r) to reside within
the parts of his Majesty's dominions to which this
Act extends (s) if it has established a place of
business within such parts.
ip) Sect. 1 (2).
(q) Sect. 35 (1) ("Plate").
(r) Sects. 1 (I) (b), 23, 26 (3), 27.
{s) Sects. 25 (1), 26 (I), 28, 35 (1) (" Self- Governing dominion ").
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