price office to the collectors of customs of the United States and to the postmasters of all exchange offices of receipt of foreign mails, in accordance with revised lists of such collectors of customs and postmasters prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General, and they shall also be furnished to all parties desiring them at a price to be Subscription determined by the register of copyrights, not exceeding five dollars per annum for the complete catalogue of copyright entries and not exceeding one dollar per annum for the catalogues issued during the year for any one class of subjects. The consolidated catalogues and indexes shall also be supplied to all persons ordering them at such prices as may be determined to be reasonable, and all subscriptions for the catalogues shall be received by the Superintendent of Public SuperintendDocuments, who shall forward the said publications; and ments to receive the moneys thus received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and accounted for under such laws and Treasury regulations as shall be in force at the time. ent of docu subscriptions Record books, taken of entries SEC. 58. That the record books of the copyright office, etc., open to intogether with the indexes to such record books, and all spection works deposited and retained in the copyright office, shall be open to public inspection; and copies may be taken of the copyright entries actually made in such record books, subject to such safeguards and regulations as shall be prescribed by the register of copyrights and approved by the Librarian of Congress. Copies may be in record books copyright depos SEC. 59. That of the articles deposited in the copyright Disposition of office under the provisions of the copyright laws of the its United States or of this Act, the Librarian of Congress shall determine what books and other articles shall be transferred to the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, including the law library, and what other books or articles shall be placed in the reserve collections of the Library of Preservation Congress for sale or exchange, or be transferred to other posits governmental libraries in the District of Columbia for use therein. of copyright de of copyright depos SEC. 60. That of any articles undisposed of as above pro- Disposal vided, together with all titles and correspondence relating its thereto, the Librarian of Congress and the register of copyrights jointly shall, at suitable intervals, determine what of these received during any period of years it is desirable or useful to preserve in the permanent files of the copyright office, and, after due notice as hereinafter provided, may within their discretion cause the remaining articles and other things to be destroyed: Provided, That there shall be printed in the Catalogue of Copyright Entries from February to November, inclusive, a statement of the years of receipt of such articles and a notice to permit any author, copyright proprietor, or other lawful claimant to claim and remove before the expiration of the month of December of that year anything found which relates to any of his productions deposited or registered for copyright within the period of years stated, not reserved or disposed of as provided for in Manuscript this Act: And provided further, That no manuscript of an unpublished work shall be destroyed during its term of copyright without specific notice to the copyright proprietor of record, permitting him to claim and remove it. copies to be preserved Fees tration Fee for certificate ing assignment of assignment SEC. 61. That the register of copyrights shall receive, and the persons to whom the services designated are renFee for regis- dered shall pay, the following fees: For the registration of any work subject to copyright, deposited under the provisions of this Act, one dollar, which sum is to include a certificate of registration under seal: Provided, That in the case of photographs the fee shall be fifty cents where a certificate is not demanded. For every additional cerFee for record- tificate of registration made, fifty cents. For recording and certifying any instrument of writing for the assignment of copyright, or any such license specified in section one, subFee for copy section (e), or for any copy of such assignment or license, duly certified, if not over three hundred words in length, one dollar; if more than three hundred and less than one thousand words in length, two dollars; if more than one thousand words in length, one dollar additional for each one thousand words or fraction thereof over three hundred Fee for record- words. For recording the notice of user or acquiescence upon mechanical specified in section one, subsection (e), twenty-five cents for each notice if not over fifty words, and an additional twenty-five cents for each additional one hundred words. Fee for com For comparing any copy of an assignment with the record assignment of such document in the copyright office and certifying the Fee for record- same under seal, one dollar. For recording the extension copyright or renewal of copyright provided for in sections twenty ing notice of user musical instru ments paring copy of ing renewal of ing transfer of three and twenty-four of this Act, fifty cents. For record-Fee for recording the transfer of the proprietorship of copyrighted articles, proprietorship ten cents for each title of a book or other article, in addition to the fee prescribed for recording the instrument of assignment. For any requested search of copyright office records, indexes, or deposits, fifty cents for each full hour of time consumed in making such search: Provided, That only one registration at one fee shall be required in the case of several volumes of the same book deposited at the same time. Fee for search Only one registration required for work in sev eral volumes "Date of publication" SEC. 62. That in the interpretation and construction of Definitions: this Act "the date of publication" shall in the case of a work of which copies are reproduced for sale or distribution be held to be the earliest date when copies of the first authorized edition were placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed by the proprietor of the copyright or under his authority, and the word "author" shall include an employer in the case of works made for hire. "Author" clause SEC. 63. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the Repealing provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, but nothing in this Act shall affect causes of action for infringement of copyright heretofore committed now pending in courts of the United States, or which may hereafter be instituted; but such causes shall be prosecuted to a conclusion in the manner heretofore provided by law. forcement SEC. 64. That this Act shall go into effect on the first day Date of enof July, nineteen hundred and nine. Approved, March 4, 1909. NOTE TO SECTION 18, PROVISO (See page 161) The Act of June 18, 1874, provides that the notice of copyright to be inscribed on each copy of a copyrighted work shall consist of the following words: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year by A. B., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington;" or, . . . 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." PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS [See Sec. 8. Page 157] The following proclamations have been issued by the President, by which copyright protection is granted in the United States to works of authors who are citizens or sub jects of the countries named: July 1, 1891-Belgium, France, Great Britain and her possessions, and Switzerland. (Stat. L., vol. 27, pp. 981, 982.) April 15, 1892-Germany. (Stat. L., vol. 27, pp. 1021, February 27, 1896-Mexico. (Stat. L., vol. 29, p. 877.) May 25, 1896-Chile. (Stat. L., vol. 29, p. 880.) October 19, 1899—Costa Rica. (Stat. L., vol. 31, pp. 1955, 1956.) November 20, 1899-Netherlands and possessions. (Stat. L., vol. 31, p. 1961.) November 17, 1903-Cuba. (Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 2, p. 2324.) January 13, 1904-China. (Treaty of October 8, 1903, Article XI.) (Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 2, pp. 2208, 2213.) July 1, 1905-Norway. (Stat. L., vol. 34, pt. 3, pp. 3111– 3112.) May 17, 1906-Japan. (Treaty of November 10, 1905.) (Stat. L., vol. 34, pt. 3, pp. 2890-2891.) September 20, 1907-Austria. (But not including Hungary.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, pt. 2, p. 2155.) April 9, 1908-Convention between the United States and other powers on literary and artistic copyrights, signed at |