APPENDIX, A. 
THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION. 
AN ACT TO AMEND THE COPYRIGHT ACT. 
(Passed in the Session of 1900.) 
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 
House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :— 
1. If a book as to which there is subsisting copyright under The 
Copyright Act has been first lawfully published in any part of Her 
Majesty’s dominions other than Canada, and if it is proved to the satis- 
faction of the Minister of Agriculture that the owner of the copyright 
so subsisting and of the copyright acquired by such publication has law- 
fully granted a license to reproduce in Canada, from movable or other 
types, or fronf stereotype plates, or from electro-plates, or from litho- 
graph stones, or by any process for facsimile reproduction, an edition or 
editions of such book designed for sale only in Canada, the Minister may 
notwithstanding anything in The Copyright Act, by order under his hand, 
prohibit the importation, except with the written consent of the licensee, 
into Canada of any copies of such book printed elsewhere; provided that 
two such copies may be specially imported for the bond fide use of any 
public free library or any university or college library, or for the library 
of any duly incorporated institution or society for the use of the mem- 
bers of such institution or society. 
2. The Minister of Agriculture may at any time in like manner, by 
order under his hand, suspend or revoke such prohibition upon importa- 
tion if it is proved to his satisfaction that— 
(a) the license to reproduce in Canada has terminated or ex- 
pired ; or 
(b) the reasonable demand for the book in Canada is not sufficiently 
met without importation ; or 
(c) the book is not, having regard to the demand therefor in Canada, 
being suitably printed or published ; or 
(d) any other state of things exists on account of which it is not in 
the public interest to further prohibit importation. 
3. At any time after the importation of a book has been prohibited 
under section 1 of this Act, any person resident or being in Canada may 
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