Excerpt from Photographic Copyright An Act of Parliament is intended to be an explicit statement of the law respecting the matter with which it deals, including the principles upon which the Act is based and the method of their application to the occasions that may arise. Theoretically, when reason for inquiry arises with regard to the law on any subject, it should be possible to turn to the Act dealing with that subject and find an exposition in clear language of how the legislature intended to deal with the point involved. Unfortunately, Statutes rarely comply with the theoretical standard - and when disputes arise upon the meaning of any word or phrase, or the application of any principle, the controversy can only be settled by taking the case before a judge whose ruling constitutes the law unless and until it is finally referred to our highest court of appeal, the tribunal of the House of Lords. It follows, therefore, that no one, however great his legal ability, can definitely say what is the meaning of any word or phrase, or the application of any principle of an Act, if the point has not been already decided judicially or something so near it that the difference is beyond fear of disputation. A legal opinion is but an opinion of what a judge would rule if the circumstances were put before him in an action at law. A judge must, however, employ a method of deduction to arrive at his decision, and it is only by similar methods of deduction that others can arrive at the probable interpretation where there are obscurities. The authors of this little book, the one as the Editor of "The British Journal of Photography," and the other as the Honorary Secretary of the Professional Photographers' Association during the past four years, have been consulted perhaps more often about matters of photographic copyright than any other two persons in the kingdom, and it is their deductions with regard to the new Copyright Act that are embodied in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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