ACT OF JUNE 18, 1874.

An act to amend the law relating to patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

action for

of copyright

unless, etc.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall main- No right of tain an action for the infringement of his copy- infringement right unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in the several copies of every edition. published, on the title page or the page immediately following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model, or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on which the same shall be mounted, the following words, viz.: "Entered according to act of Congress, Modes of in the year, by A. B., in the office of the entry. Librarian of Congress, at Washington;" or, at his option the word " Copyright," together with the year the copyright was entered, and the name of the party by whom it was taken out; thus-"Copyright, 18-, by A. B."

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ing and certify

ments of

copyright.

SEC. 2. That for recording and certifying Fee for recordany instrument of writing for the assignment ing assignof a copyright, the Librarian of Congress shall receive from the persons to whom the service is rendered, one dollar; and for every copy of an assignment, one dollar; said fee to cover, in either case, a certificate of the record, under seal of the Librarian of Congress; and all fees so received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States.

" application of

Engraving," "print."

"cut,"
" and

and labels may

SEC. 3. That in the construction of this act, Restriction on the words "Engraving," "cut," and "print" words, shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations or works connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be used for any other articles of manufacture shall be entered under the copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office. And the Commissioner Other prints of Patents is hereby charged with the super- be registered vision and control of the entry or registry of in Patent such prints or labels, in conformity with the missioner of regulations provided by law as to copyright of charged with prints, except that there shall be paid for recording the title of any print or label not a Fees. trade mark, six dollars, which shall cover the expense of furnishing a copy of the record under the seal of the Commissioner of Patents,

to the party entering the same.

Office. Com

Patents

supervision.

inconsistent

SEC. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in- Repeal of consistent with the foregoing provisions be and the same are hereby repealed.

laws.

Aug. 1, 1874.

SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect on Takes effect and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

We do not write books nor sell them, but we do perform the entire mechanical part. We furnish paper, composition, electrotyping, presswork, lithography, and binding, employing about 125 hands in the work.

The facilities of the F. H. GILSON COMPANY

are at your disposal.

Plates printed by this house are stored in our fire proof vaults without expense to customers.

We solicit correspondence.

F. H. GILSON COMPANY.

54-60 Stanhope St., Boston, Mass.