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Table of English, Scotch, Irish, Indian, and Colonial Cases	xix
Table of Cases in the United States	xxxi
PART I
THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
AND THE DOMINIONS OF THE CROWN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY	3
CHAPTER II
WHAT BOOKS ARE PROTECTED
Sec. 1. What is an Original Book	10
Definition of a Book	10
Essential Elements of a Book	11
Physical Form	11
Literary Matter	13
Originality	15
Examples of what are Books	16
Sec. 2. Publication	36
Divestitive Publication	37
Investitive Publication	38
First Publication within the British Dominions	40
Sec. 3. Author's Nationality	42
Sec. 4. Immoral Works	46
Sec. 5. Registration	46
Before Action	46
The Requisite Entry	49
The Actual Title	49
The Time of First Publication	51
The Name and Place of Abode of the Publisher	52
The Name and Place of Abode of the Proprietor	52
Certificate of Registration	53
False Entries	54
Rectification of Register	54[x]
Sec. 6. Delivery of Copies to Libraries	55
Sec. 7. Duration of Protection	56
Sec. 8. Copyright in Lectures	57
CHAPTER III
THE OWNER OF THE COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS
Sec. 1. The Crown	59
Sec. 2. The Universities	61
Sec. 3. The Author	62
Sec. 4. The Employer	66
Under Section 18	66
Scope of Section	67
Under such Employment	68
On Terms that Copyright shall belong to such Proprietor	68
Joint Employers	71
Payment	71
Author's Separate Rights	72
Employer's Rights where Section 18 does not apply	73
169
Nationality or Residence of Artist	170
Registration	171
The Requisite Entry	171
Name	173
Place of Abode	173
Short Description	173
Immoral W	174
Duration of Protection	174
Sec. 2. The Owner of the Copyright	174
The "Author"	174
The Employer	175
The Assignee	176
Sec. 3. Infringement	177
Prohibited Acts and Remedies	177
Cause or Procure	178
Innocent Agent	179
Unlawful Copy	179
Separate Offence	179
Copying for Private Use	180
Action on Breach of Contract	180
Fraudulent Acts	180
Limitation of Action	181
Evidence	181
What is a Piratical Copy	181
No Monopoly	181
What is a Copy	181
General Idea may be Taken	182
Material Part	183
Indirect Taking	184
Guilty Knowledge	184
Replicas	184
Licence a Defence	184[xiv]
CHAPTER IX
COLONIAL COPYRIGHT
Books	186
Artistic Works	191
CHAPTER X
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT
Works Produced in His Majesty's Dominions	193
Works Produced in Foreign Countries with which this Country has no Treaty	193
Works Produced in Foreign Countries with which this Country has a Treaty	193
What Foreign Works are entitled to Protection	195
Produced	195
Character of Work	196
Unpublished Works	196
Special Provisions	197
Works Produced in Foreign Countries before 6th December 1887	197
Formalities Required in case of Foreign Work	198
Who are Entitled to Sue in respect of a Foreign Work	200
390
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