iii. Every applicant for a license under this paragraph shall, along with his application, deposit
with the Intellectual Property Office such fee as may be prescribed.
iv. Where an application is made to the Intellectual Property Office under this paragraph it
may, after holding such inquiry as may be prescribed, grant to the applicant a license, not
being an exclusive license, to produce and publish a reproduction of the work mentioned in
the application subject to the conditions that the applicant shall pay to the owner of the
copyright in the work royalties in respect of copies of the reproduction of the work sold to
the public, calculated at such rate as the Intellectual Property Office may, in the
circumstances of each case, determine in the prescribed manner, except that the royalties
shall be consistent with the standards normally operating in the case of licenses freely
negotiated between persons in Liberia and owners of reproduction rights in the country of
the owner of the reproduction right, a license granted under this paragraph shall not extend
to the export of copies of the reproduction of the work outside Liberia and every copy of
such reproduction shall contain a notice that the copy is available for distribution only in
Liberia.
v. No license shall be granted to an applicant under this paragraph unless the applicant has
proved to the satisfaction of the Intellectual Property Office that he had requested and been
denied authorization by the owner of the copyright in the work to reproduce and publish
such work or that he was, after due diligence on his part, unable to find such owner, where
the applicant was unable to find the owner of the copyright, a copy of his request for such
authorization by registered air-mail post to the publisher whose name appears on the work
not less than three months before the application for the license; the applicant had informed
any national or international center designated for this purpose by the government of the
country in which the publisher of the work to be reproduced is believed to have his
principal place of business.
vi) The Intellectual Property Office is satisfied that the applicant is competent to reproduce and
publish an accurate reproduction of the work and possesses the means to pay to the owner
of the copyright the royalties payable to him under this paragraph; the applicant undertakes
to reproduce and publish the work at such price as may be fixed by the Intellectual Property
Office, being a price reasonably related to the price normally charged in Liberia for works
of the same standard on the same or similar subjects; a period of six months in the case of
an application for the reproduction and publication of any work of natural science, physical
science, mathematics or technology, or a period of three months in the case of an
application for the reproduction and publication of any other work, has lapsed from the date
of making the request under sub-paragraph (v) of this paragraph, or where a copy of the
request has been sent under said sub-paragraph (v) of the said paragraph, from the date of
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