ish copyright book became entitled to Canadian
copyright, no Canadian reprints thereof should be imported into the
United Kingdom, unless by the owner of the copyright. The following
points in the Canadian act are worth noting:--Any person printing or
publishing an unprinted manuscript without the consent of the author or
legal proprietor shall be liable in damages (S 3). Any person domiciled
in Canada, or in any part of the British possessions, or being a citizen
of any country having an international copyright treaty with the United
Kingdom, who is the author of any book, map, &c., &c., shall have the
sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, &c., for the
term of twenty-eight years. The work must be printed and published, or
reprinted or republished in Canada, whether before or after its
publication elsewhere: and the Canadian privilege is not to be continued
after the copyright has ceased elsewhere. And "no immoral or
licentious, or irreligious, or treasonable, or seditious literary,
scientific or artistic work" shall be the subject of copyright (S 4). A
further period of fourteen years will be continued to the author or his
widow and children. An "interim copyright" pending publication may be
obtained by depositing in the office of the minister of agriculture (who
keeps the register of copyrights) a copy of the title of the work; and
works printed first in a series of articles in a periodical, but
intended to be published as books, may have the benefit of this interim
copyright. If a copyright work becomes out of print, the owner may be
notified of the act through the minister of agriculture, who, if he does
not apply a remedy, may license a new edition, subject to a royalty to
the owner. Anonymous books may be entered in the name of the first
publisher. In 1889 an amending Canadian act was passed, which led to a
long controversy with the Mother Country,--the imperial government
refusing to sanction it,--till in 1900 a compromise was effected, and a
further act amending that of 1886 became law. It applies only to books
copyright in Canada, and, subject to certain reservations, allows the
minister of agriculture to prohibit the importation, without consent of
the licensees, of any copies printed elsewhere of books published in the
British dominions licensed by the owners to be reproduced in Canada.

The Australian states all have copyright laws modelled on the English.
New Zealand provides for a term