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Music. For the purposes of the Copyright Act, 1911, 'copyright' includes in the case of a musical work the right to make any record, perforated roll or other contrivance by means of which the work

may be mechanically performed [s. 1(2)(d)], see Performing Right Society Ltd. v. Hammond's Bradford Brewery Co. Ltd., 1934 Ch 121 (reproduction by radio receiving set and loud-speaker); and see also s. 19 of the Act, and as to posthumous works, s. 17. Copyright is now confined to such rights as are given by statute, the common law rights being abrogated (s. 31).

The (English) Musical Summary Proceedings (Copyright) Act, 1902, and the (English) Musical Copyright Act,1906, amended by the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, give additional protection to the owners of musical copyright against unauthorized sales, a defect in the Act of 1902 having been discovered in Ex parte Francis, (1903) 1 KB 275; the Act of 1906 empowers constables to arrest, without warrant, sellers of music notified to the chief officer of police by the owners as copyright.