Copyright: Its History and Its Law Part 89

ARTICLE 15

{Sidenote: Each government to exercise supervision}

Each of the Governments of the signatory countries shall retain the right to permit, inspect, or prohibit the circulation, representation, or exhibition of works or productions, concerning which the proper authority may have to exercise that right.

ARTICLE 16

{Sidenote: Convention to take effect three months after ratification}

The present convention shall become operative between the signatory States which ratify it three months after they shall have communicated their ratification to the Argentine Government, and it shall remain in force among them until a year after the date, when it may be denounced.

This denunciation shall be addressed to the Argentine Government and shall be without force except with respect to the country making it.

{Sidenote: Signed at Buenos Aires Aug. 11, 1910}

Made and signed in the city of Buenos Aires on the eleventh day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French, and deposited in the ministry of foreign affairs of the Argentine Republic, in order that certified copies be made for transmission to each one of the signatory nations through the appropriate diplomatic channels.

The convention was thus signed by representatives of twenty powers: the United States of America, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LAWS AND CASES, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

This table gives in chronological order the statutes, with reference to their place in the statute books, and historical, leading and recent cases with the name of the court, of the judge presiding or giving the opinion, and the reference to the law reports, also an epitome of the point cited in the text, with page reference. It is not intended to cover minor cases, not settling any principle, and where a decision has been reversed on appeal, the case in the lower court may not be given unless some definite point was there settled. The usual law report abbreviations are employed; outside of these, Copinger refers to Copinger's "Law of Copyright," Copr. Cas. to the annual summary of copyright cases edited by McGillivray and published by the English Publishers a.s.sociation, Hamlin Copr. C. & D. to Hamlin's "Copyright Cases and Decisions, 1891-1903," published for the American Publishers'

Copyright League, _Times_ to the London _Times_ legal column, and _Pub.

Week._ to the _Publishers' Weekly_, of New York. English and American cases can be distinguished by the name of the court, judge or report.

Cases are entered alphabetically in the general index with references to the year and to the page of text.