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SEC. 22. That in the case of a book published in a foreign. country before publication in this country, the deposit in the copyright office not later than thirty days after its publication abroad of one complete copy of the foreign edition, with a request for the reservation of the copyright and a statement of the name and nationality of the author and of the copyright proprietor and of the date of publication of the said book, shall secure to the author or proprietor an ad interim copyright. Except as otherwise provided, the ad interim copyright thus secured shall have all the force and effect given to copyright by this Act, and shall endure as follows:

(a) In the case of a book printed abroad in a foreign language, for a period of two years after the first publication of the book in the foreign country;

(b) In the case of a book printed abroad in the English language or in English and one or more foreign languages, until the expiration of thirty days after such deposit in the copyright office.

SEC. 23. That whenever within the period of such ad interim protection an authorized edition shall be published within the United States, in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section fifteen of this Act, (a) of a book in the English language, or (b) of a book in a foreign language, either in the original language or in an English translation thereof, and whenever the provisions of this Act as to deposit of copies, registration, filing of affidavit and the printing of the copyright notice shall have been duly complied with, the copyright shall be extended to endure in such original book for the full terms elsewhere provided in this Act.

SEC. 24. That the copyright secured by this Act shall endure:

(a) In the case of any posthumous work or any periodical or other composite work, or of any work copyrighted by a corporate body (otherwise than as assignee of the individual author or authors) or by an employer for whom such work is made for hire, for forty-two years from the date of first publication.

(b) In the case of any work not specified in subsection (a) of this section, but including a contribution to a periodical when

such contribution has been separately registered under the provisions of section twelve of this Act, for the remainder of the lifetime of the author after first publication and for forty-two years after his death, or if a work by joint authors, until fortytwo years after the death of the last survivor of them:

Provided, That within the year next preceding the expiration of twenty-eight years from the first publication of the work the copyright proprietor shall record in the copyright office a notice that he desires the full term provided herein, and in default of such notice the copyright protection in such work shall determine at the expiration of twenty-eight years from first publication: And provided further, That where the term is to extend beyond the lifetime of the author it shall be the duty of his executors, administrators or assigns to record in the copyright office the date of his death.

In all of the above cases the term shall extend to the end of the calendar year of expiration.

SEC. 25. That the copyright in a work published anonymously or under an assumed name shall subsist for the same period as if the work had been produced bearing the author's true name.

SEC. 26. That the copyright subsisting in any work at the time when this Act goes into effect may, at the expiration of the term provided for under existing law, be renewed and extended by the author, if he be still living, or if he be dead, leaving a widow, by his widow, or in her default or if no widow survive him, by his children, if any survive him, for a further period such that the entire term shall be equal to that secured by this Act, and the privileges secured hereunder to the widows of authors shall equally be enjoyed by the widowers of authors, and if such author, widow, widower or children shall not be living at the passage of this Act, then his or her heirs, executors or administrators shall be entitled to the privilege of renewal and extension granted under this section; or if the work be a composite work upon which copyright was originally secured by the proprietor thereof, then such proprietor shall be entitled to the privilege of renewal and extension granted under this section: Provided. That application for such renewal and extension shall

be made to the copyright office and duly registered therein within one year prior to the expiration of the existing term: And provided further, That if such subsisting copyright shall have been assigned or a license granted therein for publication, and if such assignment or license shall contain provision for payment of royalty, and if the renewed copyright for the extended term provided in this Act shall not be assigned nor license therein granted to such original assignee or licensee or his successor, said original assignee or licensee or his successor shall nevertheless be entitled to continue to publish the work on payment of the royalty stipulated in the original agreement; but if such original assignment or license contain no provision for the payment of royalty, the copyright shall be renewed and extended only in case the original assignee or licensee or his successor shall join in the application for such renewal and extension.

SEC. 27. That if any person shall infringe the copyright in any work protected under the copyright laws of the United States such person shall be liable:

(a) To an injunction restraining such infringement;

(b) To pay to the copyright proprietor such damages as the copyright proprietor may have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer shall have made from such infringement, and in proving profits the plaintiff shall be required to prove sales only and the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost which he claims, or in lieu of actual damages and profits such damages as to the court shall appear to be just, and in assessing such damages the court may, in its discretion, allow the amounts as hereinafter stated, but such damages shall in no case exceed the sum of five thousand dollars and shall not be regarded as a penalty:

First. In the case of a painting, statue or sculpture, ten dollars for every infringing copy made or sold by or found in the possession of the infringer or his agents or employees;

Second. In the case of any work enumerated in section five of this Act, except a painting, statue or sculpture, one dollar for every infringing copy made or sold by or found in the possession of the infringer or his agents or employees;

Third. In the case of a lecture, sermon or address, fifty dollars for every infringing delivery;

Fourth. In the case of a dramatic or dramatico-musical or a choral or orchestral composition, one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent infringing performance; in the case of other musical compositions, ten dollars for every infringing performance;

(c) To deliver up on oath, to be impounded during the pendency of the action, upon such terms and conditions as the court may prescribe, all articles alleged to infringe a copyright;

(d) To deliver up on oath for destruction all the infringing copies or devices, as well as all plates, molds, matrices or other means for making such infringing copies as the court may order;

(e) Whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of musical instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, then in case of infringement of such copyright by the unauthorized manufacture, use or sale of interchangeable parts, such as disks, rolls, bands or cylinders for use in mechanical music-producing machines adapted to reproduce the copyright music, no criminal action shall be brought, and in a civil action no injunction shall be granted, but the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover in lieu of profits and damages a royalty as provided in section one, subsection (e) of this Act.

Rules and regulations for practice and procedure under this section shall be prescribed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

SEC. 28. That any court given jurisdiction under section thirty-seven of this Act may proceed in any action, suit or proceeding instituted for violation of any provision hereof to enter a judgment or decree enforcing the remedies herein provided.

SEC. 29. That the proceedings for an injunction, damages and profits, and those for the seizure of infringing copies, plates, molds, matrices and so forth, aforementioned, may be united in one action.

SEC. 30. That any person who willfully and for profit shall infringe any copyright secured by this Act, or who shall know

ingly and willfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 31. That any person who, with fraudulent intent, shall insert or impress any notice of copyright required by this Act, or words of the same purport, in or upon any uncopyrighted articlé, or with fraudulent intent shall remove or alter the copyright notice upon an article duly copyrighted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars. Any person who shall knowingly issue or sell any article bearing a notice of United States copyright which has not been copyrighted in this country, or who shall knowingly import any article bearing such notice or words of the same purport, which has not been copyrighted in this country, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.

SEC. 32. That the importation into the United States of any article bearing a false notice of copyright when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States, or of any piratical copies of any work copyrighted in the United States, is prohibited.

SEC. 33. That during the existence of the American copyright in any book the importation into the United States of any piratical copies thereof or of any copies thereof (although authorized by the author or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section fifteen of this Act, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, or any copies thereof produced by lithographic process not performed within the limits of the United States in accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, shall be, and is hereby, prohibited: Provided, however, That, except as regards piratical copies, such prohibition shall not apply:

(a) To works in raised characters for the use of the blind: (b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although containing

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