Note 836 — Chapter VI · COPYRIGHT IN ENGRAVINGS

8 Geo. II. c. 13; 17 Geo. III. c. 57. The above summary is the result of a careful comparison of these two Acts. As Sir James Stephen says in his "Digest": "They are inexpressibly puzzling and very cumbrous.... The sense escapes in a cloud of words." It is submitted, however, that there are more important distinctions between the two Acts than those noticed in the "Digest," and the above is an attempt to make them as clear as possible.