Excerpt from A Handbook of English and Foreign Copyright in Literary and Dramatic Works: Being a Concise Digest of the Laws Regulating Copyright in Some of the Chief Countries of the World, Together With an Analysis of the Chief Copyright Conventions Existing Between Great Britain and Foreign Countries The International Literary Association, founded at Paris in 1878, where and when it held a congress. A similar con gress was held at London in 187 9. At Lisbon in 1880, and is to be held at Vienna this year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.