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Show The Llierarj concrefl. i Paris, 27. The international literary liter-ary congress accepted aa the basis of ita decisions the pnnoiple advocated by Victor Hugo in his Bpeeoh urging that a book once published becomes in part the property of society, and after the author's death bis family cannot prevent iia reisBue, but the author's heirs should be entitled to from 6 to 10 per cent, of the profits; that in case there are no heirs, the profit should go to the Btate to be jjpn iu hue euuuuraBmuub ui young writers. The nougruss resolved that the rinht ot the author in his work is sot a legal concession, but a form of properly which legislation should guarantee to bis heirs aud representatives re-presentatives in perpetuity, and that after the expiration of the term of the cupy right fixed hy the existing lawe in the different countries anybody may fret-ly republish literary works on the condition of paying a percentage percent-age to the heir. |