UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. EXAMINATIONS. Moderators MATHEMATICAL TRIPOS, 1844. Matthew O'Brien, M. A., Caius. Examiners George Fearns Reyner, M. A., St. John's. Trinity. Davies Clark Trinity. ..Pembroke. ..John's. ....Christ's. ..Emmanuel .....John's Corpus. ...Sidney. Hodgson Smith ............... Wratislaw Richardson Eq. Clare. ...John's. ...Jesus. John's. Frampton Frewer Cox Fisher INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Anno Septimo Victoriæ Reginæ, 10th May, 1844. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for securing to Authors in certain Cases the Benefit of international Copyright" (and which Act is hereinafter, for the sake of perspicuity, designated as "the International Copyright Act"), Her Majesty was empowered by order in council to direct that the authors of books which should after a future time, to be specified in such order in council, be published in any foreign country, to be specified in such order in council, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, should have the sole liberty of printing and reprinting such books within the British dominions for such term as Her Majesty should by such order in council direct, not exceeding the term which authors being British subjects, were then, (that is to say) at the time of passing the said Act, entitled to in respect of books first published in the United Kingdom; and the said Act contains divers enactments securing to authors and their representatives the copyright in the books to which any such order in council should extend: and whereas an Act was passed In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Law of Copyright" (and which Act is hereinafter, for the sake of perspicuity, designated as "the Copyright Amendment Act "), re pealing various Acts therein mentioned relating to the copyright of printed books, and extending, defining, and securing to authors and their representatives the copyright of books: and whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property" (and which Act is hereinafter, for the sake of perspicuity, designated as "the Dramatic Literary Property Act"), whereby the sole liberty of representing or causing to be represented any dramatic piece in any place of dramatic entertainment in any part of the British dominions, which should be composed and not printed or published by the author thereof or his assignee, was secured to such author or his assignee; and by the said Act it was enacted, that the author of any such production which should thereafter be printed and published, cr his assignee, should have the ke sole liberty of representation until the end of twenty-eight years from the first publication thereof: and whereas by the said Copyright Amendment Act the provisions of the said Dramatic Literary Property Act and of the said Copyright Amendment Act were made applicable to musical compositions; and it was thereby also enacted, that the sole liberty of representing or performing, or causing or permitting to be represented or performed, in any part of the British dominions, any dramatic piece or musical composition, should endure and be the property of the author thereof and his assigns for the term in the said Copyright Amendment Act provided for the duration of the copyright in books, and that the provisions therein enacted in respect of the property of such copyright should apply to the liberty of representing or performing any dramatic piece or musical composition: and whereas under or by virtue of the four several Acts next hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say,) an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors or Engravers during the Time therein mentioned;" an Act passed in the seventh year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the Eighth Year of the reign of King George the Second, for Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints; and for vesting in and securing to Jane Hogarth, Widow, the Property in certain Prints;" an Act passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for more effectually securing the Property of Prints to Inventors and Engravers, by enabling them to sue for and recover Penalties in certain Cases;" and an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to extend the Protection of Copyright in Prints and Engravings to Ireland;" (and which said four several Acts are hereinafter, for the sake of perspicuity, designated as the Engraving Copyright Acts;) every person who invents or designs, engraves, etches, or works in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, or from his own work, design, or invention causes or procures to be designed, engraved, etched, or worked in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro any historical print or prints, or any print or prints of any portrait, conversation, landscape, or architecture, map, chart, or plan, or any other print or prints whatsoever, and every person who engraves, etches, or works in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, or causes to be engraved, etched, or worked, any print taken from any picture, drawing, model, or sculpture, either ancient or modern, notwithstanding such print shall not have been graven or drawn from the original design of such graver, etcher, or draftsman, is entitled to the copyright of such print for the term of twenty-eight years from the first publishing thereof; and by the said several Engraving Copyright Acts it is provided that the name of the proprietor shall be truly engraved on each plate, and printed on every such print, and remedies are provided for the infringement of such copyright: and whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for encouraging the Art of making new Models and Casts of Busts and other Things therein mentioned," |