Section X. And it is hereby enacted, that when any publisher or other person shall within the said Territories

X. And it is hereby enacted, that when any publisher or other person shall within the said Territories before or at the time of the passing of this Act, but after the passing of the said Act of Parliament 3 and 4, Wm. 4, C. 85, have projected, conducted and carried on, or shall hereafter projects, conduct or carry on, or be the proprietor of any Encyclopoedia, Review, Magazine, Periodical work or work published in a series of Books or Parts, or any book whatsoever, and shall have employed or shall employ any persons to compose the same, or any Volumes, Parts, Essays, Articles or Portions, thereof for publication in, or as part of the same, and such work, Volumes, Parts, Essays, Articles or Portions shall have been, or shall hereafter be composed under such employment on the terms that Copyright, therein shall belong to such Proprietor, Projector, Publisher or Conductor, and paid for by such Proprietor, Projector, Publisher or Conductor, the Copyright in every such Encyclopoedia, Review, Magazine, Periodical work and work published in a series of Books or Parts, and in every Volume, Part, Essay, Article and Portion so composed and paid for shall be the property of such Proprietor, Projector, Publisher or Conductor, who shall enjoy the same rights as if he were the actual author thereof and shall have such term of Copyright therein as is given to the authors of Books by this Act, except only that in the case of Essays, Articles or Portions forming part of and first published in Reviews, Magazines or other Periodical works of a like nature after the term of twenty-eight years from the first publication thereof respectively the right of publishing the same in a separate form shall revert to the author for the remainder of the term given by this Act. Provided always, that during the term of twenty-eight years the said Proprietor, Projector, Publisher or Conductor shall not publish any such Essay, Article or Portion separately or singly without the consent previously obtained of the author thereof or his assigns; Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall after or affect the right of any person who shall have been or shall be so employed as aforesaid to publish any such his composition in a separate form who by any contract, express or implied, may have reserved or may hereafter reserve to himself such right, but every author reserving, retaining or having such right shall be entitled to the Copyright in such composition when published in a separate form according to this Act without prejudice to the right of such Proprietor, Projector, Publisher or Conductor as aforesaid.