2044 PROCLAMATIONS, 1914, 1915. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-third day of November • in the year of our Lord one thousand nme hundred [smm.] and fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-ninth. Woomzow W1LsoN By the President: W. J. BRYAN Secretary @" State. ’°"°"'Yr1°”’· BY Tma Pnnsmmvr or mn Uxrrnn Srarms or Aimruca, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is provided by the Act of Congress of March 4, 1999,
v¤1.ss,p.wr5. entitled "A.n Act to Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respectmg Cop t," that the provisions of said Act, "so far as they secure cop t controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce m anically the musical work, shall include only compositionpupublished and copyrighted after the Act goes into effect and sh not include the works of a forei€i author or composer unless the foreiii state or nation of which suc author or composer is a citizen or_su ject grants, either by treat , convention, agreement, or law, to crtrzens of the United States similiir rights": And whereas it is f1u·ther provided that the copyright secured by the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain con- V°*· 3¤»¤·*°”- ditions set forth in section 8 of said Act, to wit: _ (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first ublication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation ofp which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copg·r`ht protection substantially equal to the protection secured to suc foreign author under this Act or by treaty; or when such foreiign state or nation is a tpharty to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in _ e granting of copyright by the terms of which §reetn(ient the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party ere : And whereas it is also provided by said section that "The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President o the United States, by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this Act may require": And whereas satisfactory official assurance has been given that, by virtue of the authority conferred by the British Copyright Act, 1911, a British Order in Council has been issued of even ate with this Proclamation directing :—— 1. That ‘fthe CopSyrigll2]>1Act, 1911, including the provisions as to existing wor , s , subject to the provisions of the said Act and of this Order, a ply- (a) to lrterargy, diiamatic, musical and artistic works the authors whereo were at the time of the making of the works citizens of the United States of America, in like manner as if the authors had been British subjects: _ (b) In respect of residence in the United States of America, m hke manner as if such residence had been residence in the parts of His Majesty’s dominions to which the said Act extends.
