EXTENSION OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION Canal Zone Proclamation: Canal Zone The following Executive Order was issued extending copyright protection to the Canal Zone: By authority of the President, it is ordered: That the patent, trade-mark, and copyright laws of the United States 1907 of America are hereby extended to and made March 12 effective within the Canal Zone, to the extent that any patent or copyright issued under the laws of the United States, or any trade-mark duly registered in the Patent Office of the United States, shall vest in the person to whom issued or in whose name registered, his assigns and licensees, subject to the protection of the Circuit and Supreme Courts of the Canal Zone, the same exclusive right of property therein that such person would possess in the United States. Effective April 15, 1907. WM. H. TAFT Secretary of War Revision of the copyright laws WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, D. C., March 12, 1907 COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT RELATIONS I. Proposed legislation During the fiscal year covered by this report further important action was taken in the direction of a revision of the copyright laws. On the 31st of May, 1906, a copyright bill was formally presented to Congress, referred to the Committee on Patents of the Senate and House of Representatives, and printed (S. bill 6330; H. R. bill 19853). Copyright hear-The first hearings on this bill were held in the Library of Congress, before the two Committees on Patents sitting conjointly, on June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906, and the second ings a A bill to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright. Introduced, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, Thursday, May 31, 1906. Copyright Office print. 25 pp. 4°. 1906. The Copyright Bill (S. 6330; H. R. 19853), Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, compared with copyright statutes now in force and earlier United States copyright enactments. (Copyright Office Bulletin No. 12.) 86 pp. 4°. 1906. Register of Copyrights 115 hearings were held on December 7, 8, 10, and 11, 1906. Stenographic reports of both of these hearings were printed," with tables of contents and indexes prepared in the Copyright Office. proposed to copy The presentation of the copyright bill led to a voluminous Amendments correspondence with the Congressional Committees and the right bill Copyright Office and the submission of considerable material in the way of proposed amendment of the bill. After the first hearing on the bill the Senate Committee on Patents passed the following resolution: Pending further hearings upon the bill (S. 6330; H. R. 19853), the Register of Copyrights is requested to keep record of the discussion of its provisions; and to receive in behalf of the committee, as well as of the Copyright Office, suggestions for its amendment, whether in form or substance, and to digest these for convenient consideration by the committee. printed Under the authority of that resolution the following documents were compiled from the correspondence in the Copyright Office, setting out in brief the amendments and suggestions received: (1) Amendments proposed to the Copyright Amendments Bill (S. 6330; H. R. 19853), a compilation printed on November 22, 1906 (131 pages); (2) Addenda, December 4, 1906, containing further amendments and suggestions received up to that date (12 pages); (3) Such sections of a substitute draft submitted on behalf of the Melville Clark Piano Company of Chicago as were different from the official bill, printed on December 6 (27 pages); (4) Amendments proposed to the Copyright Bill: Part II; printed December 29, 1906, and containing all amendments proposed during the second public hearing on the bill and such further suggestions and criticisms as the Copyright Office had received to the date of printing, arranged as before under the sections of the bill (105 pages); and (5) Part III of the Compilation containing a Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents on the bills S. 6330 and H. R. 19853. June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. xvii, 217 pp. 8°. 1906. Copyright hearings, December 7 to 11, 1906. Arguments before the Committees on Patents of the Senate and House of Representatives conjointly, on the bills S. 6330 and H. R. 19853. December 7, 8, 10, and 11, 1906. 449 PP. 8°. 1906. Revised bills Reports copyright bills comments upon the bill and certain criticisms of it by the copyright committees of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was printed on the same date (35 pages). These documents, together with copies of Bulletins Nos. I and 12, were distributed to all persons attending the three conferences on copyright, as well as those attending the hearings on the bill held in June and December. The two committees, in addition to the public hearings, had frequent conferences on the copyright bill, and each committee printed for its own use a revised text of the bill; the Senate Committee on January 17, 1907 (37 pages), and the House Committee on January 25, 1907 (35 pages). On January 29 a revised bill was reported to the Senate by its Committee on Patents and printed (Senate bill, S. 8190, 36 pages). On the same day a revised bill was presented to the House by the Committee on Patents of that body and printed (H. R. bill 25133, 35 pages). This bill was reported to the House on January 30 without amendment, accompanied by a report, on which was printed as H. R. Report No. 7083 (18 pages). On February 5 Senator Kittredge, chairman of the Senate Committee on Patents, submitted a report, which was printed as Senate Report No. 6187 (38 pages). This report contained a summary, as an appendix, of the changes in the present copyright laws of the United States proposed in the Senate bill as reported. On February 7 a minority report on this bill was presented through the Senate Committee on Patents, printed as Senate Report No. 6187, part 2 (4 pages). On March 2 Mr. Barchfeld, of the House Committee on Patents, also submitted the views of the minority of that committee in regard to the House copyright bill, which report was printed as H. R. Report No. 7083, part 2 (7 pages). No action was taken upon the bill as reported to Congress until February 19, when it was called up in the Senate under its calendar number; but owing to the absence of Senator Mallory, who had presented the report from the minority of the Senate Committee on Patents on this bill, the bill was passed over. Further opportunity was not secured for consideration of the bill during the Fifty-ninth Congress. on August 23, 1906, the six delegates from attaching their signatures. This proposed interest and importance and has been pri the previous Pan-American Copyright Information Circular No. 14 of the Copy Respectfully submitted THORVAL HERBERT PUTNAM Librarian of Congress a An earlier treaty between the United Stat extension of commercial relations between them contained an article relating to copyright, and o diplomatic "agreement" was entered into betwe and Germany for the reciprocal protection of this was not submitted to the Senate for ratifica b "Copyright in Japan. Law of March 3, 1899 vention between the United States and Japan, M with the text of Earlier Enactments. Prepared Thorvald Solberg, Register of Copyrights." 3 Washington, Government Printing Office, 190 Bulletin No. 11.) c Report of the Delegates of the United State national Conference of the American States he Brazil, July 21 to August 26, 1906. 59th Co Document No. 365. 180 pp. 8°. Washington, Office, 1907. |