3d ed., 16m0, 155 p.) is a brief compilation of and comment on these laws of 1901 and 1910. The most recent and authoritative general works are Prof. Josef Kohler's" Urheberrecht an Schriftwerken und Verlagsrecht" (Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1907, 527 p.), though some of his statements of theory have given rise to criticism and dispute, and his "Kunstwerkrecht" (Stuttgart, Enke, 1908, 191 p.), Daude's "Die Reichsgesetze über das Urheberrecht an Werken der Literatur und Tonkunst und das Verlagsrecht" (Berlin, Guttentag, 1910, 293 p.), and Dr. Albert Osterrieth's "Das Urheberrecht an Werken der bildenden Künste und der Photographie" (Berlin, Heymann, 1907, 312 p.). man con tributions In the early German literature of copyright should Early Gerbe noted the works of Pütter, sometimes called the father of the modern theory of property in intellectual productions, who wrote as early as 1764, an edition of whose "Beyträge zum Teutschen Staats- u. Fürsten-Rechte" was published in Göttingen in 1777; and the tractate of Immanuel Kant, "Von der Unrechtmässigkeit des Büchernachdrucks," which may be found in his collected works. The most important Italian work of recent issue Italian works is that of Eduardo Piola-Caselli, "Del diritto di autore" (Naples, E. Marghieri, 1907, 875 p.), and earlier works of standard character are Enrico Rosmini's "Legislazione e jurisprudenza sui diritti d'autore" (Milan, M. Hoepli, 1890, 671 p.), and Pietro Esperson, "De' diritti di autore sulle opere dell'ingegno ne' rapporti internazionali " (Torino, Unione tipograficoeditrice, 1899, 278 p.). A useful compendium of Spanish copyright law Spanish comof 1879 et seq., covering both the Peninsula and the pendium ultramar colonies, was published in Havana by La Propaganda Literaria, in 1890, as edited with an in International teresting comparison of Spanish law with 1 Great Britain and America by D. F. G. Gar Morales. A most valuable compilation of the co compilations laws and treaties of all countries, comprising a translation into German of about 250 acts, is" ( über das Urheberrecht in allen Ländern," in a second edition by Prof. Ernest Röthli (Leipzig, Hedeler, 1902, 418 p.), which was c mented by his summary of the domestic and national law of copyright in the different cou "Der interne und der internationale Schu Urheberrechts," also in its second edition (L Boersenverein der deutschen Buchhändler, 116 p.), comprising references or mentions ing fifty-seven countries and forty-nine co especially the British colonies. With these be mentioned "Recueil des conventions et concernant la propriété littéraire et artist published under the auspices of the Bureau International Copyright Union (Berne, Bure l'Union internationale, 1904, 8vo, 908 p.). works are supplemented by the publication month to month in the Droit d'Auteur of Ber which Prof. Röthlisberger is the editor, of new ventions, treaties, laws and other material, br world-information up to date. I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: COPYRIGHT I. UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT CODE OF 1909 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE Acts Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Exclusive any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of this Act, shall have the exclusive right: (a) To print, reprint, publish, copy, and vend the copyrighted work; right to (b) To translate the copyrighted work into other lan- To translate, guages or dialects, or make any other version thereof, if it dramatize be a literary work; to dramatize it if it be a nondramatic arrange and work; to convert it into a novel or other nondramatic work adapt, etc. if it be a drama; to arrange or adapt it if it be a musical work; to complete, execute, and finish it if it be a model or design for a work of art; (c) To deliver or authorize the delivery of the copy- To deliver righted work in public for profit if it be a lecture, sermon, lectures, seraddress, or similar production; mons, etc. To represent dramatic works, or make record, or exhibit (d) To perform or represent the copyrighted work publicly if it be a drama or, if it be a dramatic work and not reproduced in copies for sale, to vend any manuscript or any record whatsoever thereof; to make or to procure the making of any transcription or record thereof by or from which, in whole or in part, it may in any manner or by any method or perform, be exhibited, performed, represented, produced, or reproduced; and to exhibit, perform, represent, produce, or reproduce it in any manner or by any method whatsoever; (e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition and for the purpose of public etc. |