Dáil Éireann - Volume 29 - 17 April, 1929

Public Business. - Copyright Preservation Bill, 1929—First Stage.

Minister for Justice (Mr. Fitzgerald-Kenney) James Fitzgerald-Kenney

Minister for Justice (Mr. Fitzgerald-Kenney): I beg leave to introduce a

Bill entitled an Act to preserve in Saorstát Eireann all copyrights which were subsisting in the late United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the Fifth day of December, 1921.

(Bille dá ngairmtear Acht chun gach cóipcheart do bhí ar marthain ar an gCúigiú lá de Mhí na Nodlag, 1921, i Ríocht Aontuithe na Breataine Móire agus na hEireann do bhí ann le déanaí do bhuanú i Saorstát Eireann.)

Leave given to introduce Bill.

Bill read a First Time.

Second Stage ordered for April 19th, 1929.

Mr. Esmonde Mr. Esmonde

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Mr. Esmonde: I would like to [391] know if this Bill will be retrospective?

An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes

An Ceann Comhairle: I think the Deputy must wait to see the text. The text cannot be altered now.

Dáil Éireann 29 Public Business. Copyright Preservation Bill, 1929—First Stage.

General Debate

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