The law of motion pictures (1918)

COPYRIGHT IN COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 659 Provision is also made for registration of copyright and deposit of copies; such registration and deposit, however, being optional and not mandatory. The chief advantage of registration and deposit is that the registered owner is given the right to pursue certain summary remedies which may not otherwise be invoked. The Australian Act has not affected the Act of 1911 with respect to the persons who may secure copyright. Anyone entitled to secure copyright under the 1911 Act is accorded protection in Australia. As Australia by its acceptance of the 1911 Act has come within its provisions, publication in Australia is for the purposes of the 1911 Act publication within the British dominions to which the Act extends. First or simultaneous publication in England or any other part of the British dominions to which the Act extends gives British copyright which is enforceable in Australia. Section 191. — Copyright in Dominion of New Zealand. New Zealand passed a Copyright Act in 1913, which went into effect on April 1st, 1914, based upon the 1911 Act. There were modifications as to summary remedies and provisions for optional registration and deposit similar to the Australian Act. The Act provides that copyright shall subsist in a published work if first publication takes place in New Zealand, and that in the case of an unpublished work, copyright shall subsist therein only if at the date of the making of the work the author is a British subject or resident in New Zealand. The Act further provides that copyright shall be extended to no other works except