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DEFINITE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Sec. 15. Geo. W. Ogilvie-Continued.

of an owner of a copyright to, at his option, permit the infringement to continue or prevent further infringement by refunding to the infringer all of the cost and expense to which he has gone in connection with the production of the infringing work-in which event the infringer shall deliver up to the copyright owner all plates, sheets and books that infringe, and may be enjoined from further infringement."

Sec. 16. Geo. W. Ogilvie,-Change to read:

"SEC. 16. 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." [Omit all of section 16 beyond this point.]

Sec. 17. International Typographical Union, International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, and International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, Amend by striking out after the word "published," the words to and including "therefrom," and inserting the words "in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section thirteen of this Act," to read:

"SEC. 17. That whenever within the period of such ad interim protection an authorized edition shall be produced and published in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section thirteen 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 requirements prescribed by 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." (Copyright Hearings, December, 1906, p. 188.)

SUGGESTIONS AND CRITICISMS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY DEFINITE PROPOSALS FOR PHRASEOLOGY,

Sec. 15.

Sec. 16. Henry Carey Baird.

With all the energy and force which I possess I emphatically protest against the enactment of the Copyright bill. Not only is it unjust to the American people, but it is complicated, harassing, and annoying in the extreme. Especially do I protest against the undue advantages granted to the authors and publishers of foreign books in foreign languages-privileges granted to them which are denied to American citizens.

Sec. 17.

Sec. 18.

DEFINITE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

SUGGESTIONS AND CRITICISMS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY DEFINITE

PROPOSALS FOR PHRASEOLOGY.

Sec. 18. Advertising Clubs of America (Hugh K. Wagner).

The present law provides for a long, but absolutely determined, period of copyright protection, twenty-eight years with privilege of renewal for fourteen more, upon compliance with certain prerequisites. One of the most objectionable features of the proposed law is that it does away with this fixed and determinate term of twenty-eight or forty-two years, and provides that the term of copyright shall end fifty years after the death of the author. They say that this is in order that the widow and children of the author may derive revenue from his productions after his death, but it would seem like his children ought to be nearly self-supporting fifty years after his death, and it may be thought that in few cases would the widow still be living. No national bureau of death records is provided by the bill, so that it would be impossible for anyone to find out whether the author were still living, or the date of his death, and it would be, under this provision of the new law, a most intolerable nuisance for any one to undertake to determine whether or not the "limited time" prescribed by the Constitution of the United States for the existence of copyright protection had expired and the matter had become public property. This provision peculiarly affects advertising men, I believe, because some of their productions are ephemeral and embody subjectmatter borrowed from wherever it can be found. If the copyright on it has expired, they are entitled to know that fact and to use the material. Under the proposed new law it will be easier to produce a work of genius than to find out whether or not the copyright has expired.

Sec. 18. Robt. H. Parkinson.

Protection for fifty years in the actual works of the author would, in my opinion, be quite as effective in stimulating authorship, and far more effective in advancing science and arts and bringing into possession of the public, without needless restriction in the interest of middlemen, the beneficial results of authorship. I would earnestly recommend a reduction in the term and modification of the provisions to which I have referred.

Sec. 18.

DEFINITE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Sec. 18 (b). American (Authors') Copyright League,Add "otherwise than as assignee of the individual author or authors," to read:

"(b) For fifty years after the date of first publication in the case of any composite or collective work; any work copyrighted by a corporate body otherwise than as assignee of the individual author or authors or by the employer of the author of authors; any abridgment, compilation, dramatization, or translation; any posthumous work; any arrangement or reproduction in some new form of a musical composition; any photograph; any reproduction of a work of art; any print or pictorial illustration; the copyrightable contents of any newspaper or other periodical; and the additions or annotations to works previously published." (Copyright Hearings, December, 1906, p. 402.)

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