The law of motion pictures (1918)

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846 APPENDIX Representation of translations of dramatic works. Notice of reservation of performance not required. Adaptations, etc., considered as infringements. Adaptation of musical works to mechanical instruments. Authors of dramatic or dramatico-musical works are protected, during the term of their copyright in the original work, against the unauthorized public representation of a translation of their works. In order to enjoy the protection of this article, authors, in publishing their works, are not obliged to prohibit the public representation or public performance of them. Article 12 Among the unlawful reproductions to which the present Convention applies are specially included indirect, unauthorized appropriations of a literary or artistic work, such as adaptations, arrangements of music, transformations of a romance or novel or of a poem into a theatrical piece and viceversa, etc., when they are only the reproduction of such work in the same form or in another form with non-essential changes, additions or abridgments and without presenting the character of a new, original work. Article 13 Authors of musical works have the exclusive right to authorize: (1) the adaptation of these works to instruments serving to reproduce them mechanically; (2) the public