PROTECTION OF AUTHORS AND MUSICIANS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10518, 28 July 1910, Page 4

PROTECTION OF AUTHORS AND MUSICIANS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) .Received July 27, at 10.20 p.m. London, July 27. Mr Buxton's Copyright Bill was read a first time. He said an agreement had -been 'readied with the dominions regarding the treatment of the question. The Bill provides that the author is the only person whose consent is necessary to enable a newspaper in one country to borrow, from a newspaper n another, any serial story, tale or literary, _ scientific, or artistic article. Dramatists and musicians will be betIyer protected than before. The Blue Book on the copyright conference has been published. The Copyright Bill gives authors protection for a life of fifty, years from the date of publication.