FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1901

FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1901

No. 17 of 1901.

Relating to Copyright in works of the Five Arts, and for
repressinq the of Fraud in the Production and
Sale of such Works. [12th October, 1901.]
1. The Fine Arts Copyright Ordinance, 1901.

[ss. 22, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, rep. No. 24 of 19112 s. 11]

8.-(1) No person shall do or cause to be done anly or either of
the following acts :-
(a) fraudulently sign or otherwise affix, or fraudulently cause to
be signed or otherwise affixed, to or upon any painting, drawing,
or photograph, or the negative thereof, any name, initials, or,
monogram ;
(b) fraudulently sell, publish, exhibit, or dispose of, or offer for
sale, exhibition, or distribution, any painting, drawing, or photo-
graph, or negative of a photograph, having tbercon the name,
initials, or monogram of a person who did not execute or make such
work;
(c) fraudulently utter, dispose of, or put off, or cause to
be uttered or disposed of, any copy or colourable imitation of any

* As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 2 of 1912 and No. 8 of 1912.
f As amendedp by No. 30 of 1911, No, 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912 and
No, 2 of 1912.





painting, drawing, or photograph, or negative of a photograph,
whether there is subsisting copyright therein or not, as having
been made or executed by the author or maker of the original work
from which such copy imitation has been taken.


(122) Where the author or maker of any painting, drawing, or
photograph, or negative of a photograph, made either before or
after the commencement of this Ordinance, has sold or otherwise
parted with the possesion of such work, if any alteration is after-
wards made therein by any other person, by addition or otherwise,
no person shall be at liberty, during the life of the author or maker
of such work, without his consent, to niake, or knowingly to sell
or publish or offer for sale, such work or any copies of such work
so altered as aforesaid, or of any part thereof, as or for the
unaltered work of such author or maker.

(3) Every offender under this section shall forfeit to the person
aggrieved a sum not exceeding 100 dollars or not exceeding double
the full price, if any, at which all such copies, engravings,
itations, or altered works have been sold or offe ed for sale; and


further all such copies, engravings, imitations, or altered works
shall be forfeited to the petson, or the assigns or legal represen-
tatives of the person, whose name, initals, or monograms is or are
so fraudulently signed or affixed thereto or to whom such spurious
or altered work is so fraudulentIv or falsely ascribed as aforesaid.
Provided always that the penalties imposed by this section shall not
be incurred unless the person whose name, initials, or monogram
is or are so fraudulently slianed or affixed, or to whom such
spurious or altered work is so fraudulently or falsely ascribed as
aforesaid, has been living at, or within 20 years next before, the
time when the offence may have been committed.

9. All pecuniary penalties which are incurred, and all such
unlawful copies, imitations, and all other effects and things which
are forfeited, by offenders, pursuant to this Ordinance, may
be recovered by the person hereinbefore empowered to recover the
same, either by action in the Supreme Court against the party
offending or by summary proceedings before a Magistrate.

- [ss. 10, 11, 12, and 13, rep. No. 24 of 1912 s. 2.]-

No. 18 of 1901, repealed by No. 8 of 1912 s. 12.

No. 19 of 1901, repealed by No. 31 of 1911 s~ 50.
Short title. Penalties for fraudulent productions and sales.[25 & 26 Vict.c.68 s.7.] Recovery of pecuniary penalties.[25 & 26 Vict.c.68 s.8.]

Short title. Penalties for fraudulent productions and sales.[25 & 26 Vict.c.68 s.7.] Recovery of pecuniary penalties.[25 & 26 Vict.c.68 s.8.]

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