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 100

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