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United Nations - 46 No. 909. EXCHANGE OF Treaty Series

CONSTITUTING NOTES 1950

AN AGREEMENT1 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA RELATING TO THE EXTENSION, ON A RECIPROCAL BASIS, OF THE TIME FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS AND FORMALITIES PRESCRIBED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE COPYRIGHT LAWS. WASHINGTON, 29 DECEMBER 1949 I The Australian Ambassador to the Secretary of State AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY WASHINGTON,

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29th December, 1949 No. 504/49

Sir, I have the honour to inform you that the attention of the Australian Government has been invited to paragraph (b), section 9 of Title 17 of the United States Code, codified and enacted into positive law by the act of Congress approved July 30, 19472, which provides for extending, on a reciprocal basis, the time for the fulfilment of the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright laws of the United States in the case of authors, copyright owners, or proprietors of works first produced or published abroad who are or may have been temporarily unable to comply with those conditions and formalities because of the disruption or suspension of the facilities essential for their compliance.

My Government has requested me to inform you that, by reason of the conditions arising out of World War II, Australian authors, copyright 2

Came into force on 29 December 1949, by the exchange of the said notes. United States of America: 61 Stat. 652.

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