§ MR. BUCHANAN (Edinburgh. W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, having regard to the fact that a Copyright Bill is at present under consideration of the American Congress, Her Majesty's Government will endeavour to arrange, by friendly representations, international agreement, or otherwise, that the benefits of International copyright should be secured to British authors and publishers free from any conditions or restrictions that might seriously injure the printing trade in this country?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONI am afraid that no representations in favour of an extension of the provisions of the Bill in question would be attended with any success.