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56 United Nations - Treaty Series 1950

You express the desire of the Australian Government that, in accordance with the procedure provided in the above-mentioned section 9 of Title 17 of the United States Code, the time for fulfilling the conditions and formalities of the copyright laws of the United States of America be extended for the benefit of citizens of Australia whose works are eligible to copyright in the United States of America. You add that with a view to assuring the Government of the United States of America reciprocal protection for authors, copyright owners, and proprietors of the United States of America, the Governor-General has made an Order in Council, the text of which accompanies your note under acknowledgment, which will come. into effect from the date on which the President of the United States of America shall proclaim, in accordance with the aforesaid Title 17 of the United States Code, that by reason of the disruption or suspension of facilities during several years of the time since September 3, 1939 citizens of Australia who are authors, copyright owners, or proprietors of works first produced or published outside the United States of America and subject to copyright, ad interim copyright, or renewal of copyright under the laws of the United States of America have been temporarily unable to comply with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States of America.

You further state that the Australian Government is prepared, if this proposal should be accepted by the Government of the United States of America, to regard the note under acknowledgment and this Government's reply thereto to that effect as constituting an agreement between the two Governments, which shall take effect this day. I have the honor to inform you that, with a view to giving effect to the commitment proposed in the note under acknowledgment, the President has issued today a proclamation, a copy of which is annexed hereto, declaring and proclaiming, pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of the aforesaid Title 17 on the basis of the assurances set forth in your note and the Order in Council, annexed thereto, that as regards (1) works of citizens of Australia which were first produced or published outside the United States of America on or after September 3, 1939 and subject to copyright under the laws of the United States of America, including works subject to ad interim copyright, and (2) works of citizens of Australia subject to renewal of copyright under the laws of the United States of America on or after September 3, 1939, there has existed during several years of the time since September 3, 1939 such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States of America as to bring such works within the terms of the aforesaid Title 17, and that accordingly the time within which compliance with such conditions and No. 909