The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

ARTICLE

The author of any work published in either of tho
two countries, who may choose to reserve the right of
translating it, shall, until the expiration of five years
from the date of the first publication of the translation
thereof authorized by him, be, in the following cases,
entitled to protection from the publication in the other
country of any translation of such work not so autho-
rized by him :
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Sec. -1. If the original work shall have been registered
and deposited in the one county within three months
after its first publication in the other.
Sec. 2. If the author has notified on the title-page of
his work his intention to reserve the right of transla-
ting it.
Sec. 3. Provided always, that at least a part of the
authorized translation shall have appeared within a
year after the registration and deposit of the original,
and that the whole shall have been published within
three years after the date of such deposit.
Seo. 4. And provided that the publication of the
translation shall take placo within one of the two coun-
tries, and that it shall be registered and deposited in
cmformity with the stipulations of Article 11. of the
Convention of the 13th of May, 1846.

With regard to works which are published in parts, it
will be sufficient if the declaration of the author that
he reserves the right of trauslation shall appear in the
first part. But with reference to the period of five
years, limited by this Article for the exercise of the ex-
clusive right of translation, each part shall be treated
as a separate work, and each part shall be registered and
deposited in the one country within three months after
its first publication in the other.
ARTICLE IV.

The stipulations of the preceding articles shall also
be applicable to the representation of dramatic works,
and to the performance of musical compositions, in so
far as the laws of each of the two countries are or shall
be applicable in this respect to dramatic and musical
works first publicly represented or performed therein.
In order, lhowever, to entitle the author to legal
protection in regard to the translation of a dramatic
work, such translation must appear within three months
after the registration and deposit of the original.
It is understood that the protection stipulated by the
present article is not intended to prohibit fair imitations,
or adaptations of dramatic works to the stage in Eng-
land and Prussia respectively, but is only meant to pre-
vent piratical translations.

The question whether a work is an imitation or a pi.
racy, shall in all cases be decided by the courts of jus-
tice of the respective countries, according to the laws in
force in each.

ARTICLE V.
Notwithstanding the stipulations of Article I of the
Convention of the 13th of May, 1846, and of Article
II of the present additional Convention, Articles ex-
tracted froth newspapers or periodicals published in
either of the two countries, may be republished or
translated in the newspapers or periodicals of the other
country, provided the source from whence such articles
are taken be acknowledged.

Nevertheless, this permission shall not be construed
to authorise the republication or translation in one of
the two countries, of articles from newspapers or pe,
riodinals published in the other country, the authors of
which shall have notified in a conspicuous manner in the
journal ..or periodical in which such articles have ap.
peered, that they forbid the republication thereof.
This last stipulation shall not, however, apply to
articles of political discussion.