§ Mr. Haleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps have been taken by him to protect the copyright in France of Her Majesty's Stationery Office in Mr. M. R. D. Foot's book on the Special Operations Executive; to whom the copyright has been granted; and on what terms.
§ Mr. MacDermotCrown copyright in S.O.E. in France is protected under the Brussels Copyright Convention, 1948, and134W the Universal Copyright Convention, 1952, to both of which the United Kingdom and France are signatories. Negotiations are well advanced with a French publisher for the grant of French-language volume rights. It is not the practice to disclose the terms of such agreements.
Action was recently taken in the French Courts to avert a threatened infringement of Crown copyright in this book.