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Mr. DEAKIN : " Dominions " is the word we have used. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : All right. Dr. SMARTT : Would you add also, Mr. Lloyd George, the uniformity of Company Law ? COPYRIGHT. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE :We have a new resolution about that. What about copyright, which is much more important ? What have you say to copyright, Sir Wilfrid ? Sir WILFRID LAURIER : I do not think I would touch copyright. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : It seems a little more difficult. Sir WILFRID LAURIER : It is far more difficult. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : I wish we could get uniformity in copyright. Dr. SMARTT : It is rather unfair that any portion of the Empire should rely purely on the copyright of the other parts of the Empire. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : We are great sufferers here. Dr. SMARTT : I am in favour of a copyright resolution. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : I wish you could include copyright, because it is very unfair that our authors should be treated in a British Dominion exactly as they would be treated in a foreign country. Sir WILLIAM LYNE : Copyright goes a long way past that. Sir WILFRID LAURIER : I suppose in Australia where you have a large paper element copyright is a very troublesome question. Sir WILLIAM LYNE : Very troublesome. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : You mean about designs. Mr. DEAKIN : Our law as to designs is passed. Sir WILLIAM LYNE : We want it to go further than it has ? Mr. LLOYD GEORGE ; Does your law protect the poor British author ? Mr. DEAKIN : I would not like to say without looking at it how far he is protected or not protected. Copyright is a technical subject. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : Copyright seems to be too difficult, Mr. F. R. MOOR: Are you leaving out copyright altogether? Could you not introduce it in looser terms : " and copyright as far as practicable."

Thirteenth Day. 8 May 1907.

Uniformity of Patent Laws.

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