Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 37 Part 2.djvu/681

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1911. 1689 of the said Act, including "copyrigM controlling the pats ingumente servtng to reprodyege mechanically the america! 1¤ork," indthe case of lagslrngeical by §§l·g1an comxsers which have been pu e smce_ , ,an vebeen mph redfor ·

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testunonywe , vehereuntosetm hsndand theD:ealoftt.geIginits(¢Bf%%atestcbeaExed. y ` neat e ty ashmgton' thisfourteenthda ofJuneiu theyearofourllordonethousandnixiehundreilmdeleien, [snr.,] and of the Idnlgelpendence of the United States of America the one hun and thirtrfifth. _ Wu H Tan By the President P C Knox Swrdary of State. Br rn Pnssmmrr or mn Umrzo Snrns or Aunroa ’¤·•¤•·¤•¤· A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is rovided by the Act.of Congras of March4 1909 "* entitled _"An Actlto amend and consolidate the Acts copy: va. as,:1¤1:.. ?ght" (m effect, on July %éh939), that the rglovisions offsaid Act, so arastheyseeureco controlling e oiustruments serving to reproduce the shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after this Act goes into effect, and shall nm include the works of ajoreign author or composerunless theforeign stateornationoiwhnchsuch authororecmposer is a citizen or subject grants either by treaty convention, agreement, or law, to citizens o the United States rights " : Andwehereasiifurtherprovidedthatthewpyrightaunedby the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a state or nation, only upon csrtsh con- . ditions setforthinsection ofssidAct,tow1t: . *'·*·¤·¤·¤°¤· (a) Whmanalisnauthororpropnetorshall bedomiciledwithin the United States atthe time of the intgmblpeoionef his work; or (b) Wheuthsforeignstateornation _ vhmhsuchauthormprm prietor is a citizen or subject grants, either bégreaty, convenug agreement, or law, to citizens of the Ilnrted _ tes the beneit copyrightonsnbstautiallythesamebasm as l`D1tl0W!1Gi$lZ8Dl,0I' cop right protection substantially equal to the protection secured to sung foreign author under this Act or by treiajy; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an xnternatw yrgesnent which provides {or reciprocit in the granting of cop _ t by the terms of which tggreement tge United States may, at its pleasure, become a party ereto: Andwhereasithalseprovidedbysaid•ecti¤nthat"’lfheexisteuce of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President o the United States, by proclangatwn made from time to time,asthepu1;poeesofthisActm•yreqmre": And whereas sucgroclamation was duly sued on June 29, 1910: '¤*—*•·P·¤¤¤ And wherea•sa' acwryoilicnal ssurance hasnow beensgiven thatinLuxemburgthelav;dpermitsto¤ts¤nsof theUnited tates similarriglitstotboeeacce edinsectnonl (e) of theAetof1(nd14, 1909: Now, therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United d¤•¤·•¤ •¤ -4: States oi America, do declare and proclaim that one of the altsmv •a'¤$' a¤» tive conditions specilibd ID sections I (0) a¤d 8 (b) or the Act of°"°""°"'°°""