During 1975-76, India participated in the following International events/training programmes in the field of book promotion:-

(i) International meeting of specialists in the field of Chil- dren's Literature held at Tehran in May, 1975 by the Institute for the Intellectectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Tehran in cooperation with UNESCO and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO.

(ii) Meeting of Governmental experts convened by UNESCO in Paris in November, 1975, in cooperation with the World Intellectual property Organisation. at which it was agreed that double taxation on copyright royalty remittances from one country to another, should be avoided and the possibility of seeking a

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multilateral solution to the problem, with special provision in favour of the developing countries, might be further explored by UNESCO.

(iii) UNESCO Regional Seminar on Planning, Production and Distribution of Books for Children and young people in Asia, held at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in December 1975 by the UNESCO Regional Centre for Book Development in Asia-Karachi in cooperation with the host country, to discuss the need for suitable literature for children and young people in Asia and to consider various means to plan, produce and distribute attractive low-cost books and thus promote the reading habits of the new generation.

(iv) Two Assistant Production Officers, one each from the NCERT and National Book Trust, were deputed to Tokyo to attend the Eighth Training Course on Book Production in Asia from 9th September 1975 to 9th October, 1975. This training course is being organised, annually, by the Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Tokyo, in collaboration with UNESCO, the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and the Japan Book Publishers Association.

COPYRIGHT

In the Copyright Board which was reconstituted on 24th September, 1972, in pursuance of Section 11 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), two vacancies caused by the death of Shri C.B. Rao and the resignation of Shri B.N. Mitra were filled, by the following new members.

1. Shri A. A. Ginwala,

Secretary,

Law and Judiciary Department, Government of Maharashtra.

2. Shri D. C. Chakraborti,

Secretary,

Judicial Department,

Government of West Bengal.

During 1975 and up to December 15, 1975, 2,550 works of which 2185 were artistic and 365 Literary works were registered with the Copyright office. In addition, changes in the Register of Copyright were registered in respect of 215 works.

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During the period under review India participation in the meet- ings of the administrative bodies of WIPO, Working Group on Scientific Discoveries, Sub-Committee of the Inter-Governmental Copyright Committee and the, Executive Committee of the Berne Union and Reprographic Reproduction, Inter-governmental Copyright Committee established under the Universal Copyright Convention and Executive Committee of the Berne Union. India was elected as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Berne Union for the first time.