APPENDIX

By virtue of presidential proclamations, treaties and conventions, the United States has established copyright relations with various other countries. This appendix is an attempt to present a complete and annotated list of those countries. Treaties and conventions on the subject of copyright relations in force October 31, 1955 are also included in the preceding pages under appropriate country or subject headings.

Proclamations by the President of the United States extending copyright protection, upon compliance with the provisions of the United States copyright law, to the works of foreign authors prior to July 1, 1909 were issued pursuant to section 13 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1106) and those issued subsequent to July 1, 1909 were issued under the provisions of sections 1(e) and 8(b) of the Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1075) and as later amended. Section 8(b) was amended by the Act of December 18, 1919 (41 Stat. 368) and the Act of September 25, 1941 (55 Stat. 732). Those sections of the Act of March 4, 1909, as amended, became sections 1(e) and 9(b), respectively, of Title 17 of the United States Code when it was codified and enacted into positive law by the Act of July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 652). A number of the proclamations were preceded or accompanied by exchanges of diplomatic notes. which served as the basis for their issuance. Such exchanges of notes, if in force October 31, 1955, and if printed in the official pamphlet series, are included in the preceding pages under appropriate country and subject headings.

The period for compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright law was extended by proclamation with respect to certain works in the case of a number of countries because of the disruption or suspension of facilities essential for such compliance during World War I and World War II. In the case of World War I this period was extended by proclamations issued under the Act of December 18, 1919 (41 Stat. 368) to fifteen months after the proclamation of peace, as to works published after August 1, 1914 and before the proclamation of peace. In the case of World War II, this period was extended by proclamations issued under the Act of September 25, 1941 (55 Stat. 732) until such time as terminated or suspended, either by the terms of the proclamation itself or by the issuance of a A number of the subsequent proclamation.

proclamations issued under the 1919 Act and all of the proclamations issued under the 1941 Act or section 9(b) of Title 17 of the United States Code refer to rights previously granted.