§ House in Committee (according to Order.)
THE EARL OF CARNARVONsaid, that as he had stated to their Lordships on the second reading, the Bill would prohibit the importation into this country of English copyright books reprinted 707 in Canada. He was now about to move Amendments, the objects of which were to allow the importation of such reprints into other Colonies, and also to allow their importation into the United Kingdom when they were imported by the owners in the United Kingdom of the copyrights, or by persons authorized by those owners. The main object of the Bill was to prevent the importation into Canada of pirated editions of English copyrights.
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Amendment made, in page 2, line 17, leave out from ("Bill") to the end of the clause, and insert—
("It shall be unlawful for any person, not being the owner, in the United Kingdom, of the copyright in such book, or some person authorised by him, to import into the United Kingdom any copies of such book reprinted or re-published in Canada; and for the purposes of such importation the seventeenth section of the said Act of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter forty-five, shall apply to all such books in the same manner as if they had been reprinted out of the British dominions.")
Then it was moved to insert the following clause:—
The said Order in Council, dated the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall continue in force so far as relates to books which are not entitled to copyright for the time being, in pursuance of the said reserved Bill.
§ Clause agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: the Report thereof to be received on Thursday next; and Bill to be printed, as amended. (No. 179.)