No. 45/1929:

COPYRIGHT (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) ORDER, 1929.

COPYRIGHT (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) ORDER, 1929.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 175 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927), that the Governor-General may by Order made on the advice of the Executive Council direct that Part VI. of that Act shall apply:—

(a) to works first published in a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like manner as if they were first published within Saorstát Eireann;

(b) to literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, the authors whereof were at the time of making the work, citizens of a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like manner as if the authors were citizens of Saorstát Eireann;

(c) in respect of residence in a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like manner as if such residence were residence within Saorstát Eireann,

and that thereupon, subject to the provisions of the said Part VI. of the said Act and of the Order, the said Act shall apply accordingly:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by the said section 175 of the said Act that before making an Order under that section, in respect of a foreign country (other than a country with which a convention, relating to copyright and binding on Saorstát Eireann exists), the Governor-General acting on the advice of the Executive Council shall be satisfied that that foreign country has made or has undertaken to make such provisions, if any, as it appears to the Governor-General acting on the advice of the Executive Council, expedient to require for the protection of works entitled to copyright under the provisions of Part VI. of the said Act:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by the said section 175 of the said Act as amended by section 11 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1929 (No. 13 of 1929), that an Order under the said section 175 may provide that the term of copyright in Saorstát Eireann shall not exceed that conferred by the law of the country to which the Order relates:

AND WHEREAS no convention relating to copyright and binding on Saorstát Eireann exists with the United States of America and the Governor-General acting on the advice of the Executive Council is satisfied that the Government of the United States of America has made or has undertaken to make such provisions as appear to him, acting on the advice of the Executive Council, expedient to require for the protection of works entitled to copyright under the provisions of Part VI. of the said Act:

NOW I, JAMES McNEILL, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, on the advice of the Executive Council and in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the said section 175 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby Order and direct as follows, that is to say: —

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes, as the Copyright (United States of America) Order, 1929.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. Part VI. of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927), shall apply

(a) to literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, the authors whereof were at the date of the making of the work, citizens of the United States of America in like manner as if the authors were citizens of Saorstát Eireann;

(b) in respect of residence in the United States of America in like manner as if such residence were residence within Saorstát Eireann.

4. The term of copyright in Saorstát Eireann in respect of any work by virtue of this Order shall not exceed the term of copyright in the United States of America conferred in respect of such work by the law of the United States of America.

JAMES McNEILL,

Governor-General.

This 1st day of October, 1929.