APPENDIX II REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS FOR THE WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9, 1909 SIR: The copyright business and the work of the Copyright Office for the fiscal year from July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, inclusive, are summarized as follows: RECEIPTS The gross receipts during the year were $87,085.53. A balance of $1,876.63, representing trust funds and unfinished business, was on hand July 1, 1908, making a total of $88,962.16 to be accounted for. Of this amount the sum of $2,715.46, received by the Copyright Office, was refunded as excess fees or as fees for articles not registrable, and $154.50 was applied for subscriptions to the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, leaving a net balance of $86,092.20. The balance carried over to July 1, 1909, was $2,275.45 (representing trust funds, $2,193.79, and total unfinished business since July 1, 1897-twelve years-$81.66), leaving for fees applied during the fiscal year 1908-9, $83,816.75. EXPENDITURES The appropriation made by Congress for salaries in the Salaries Copyright Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, was $77,800. The total expenditure for salaries was $77,586.52, or $6,230.23 less than the net amount of fees earned and paid into the Treasury during the corresponding year. The expenditure for supplies, except furniture, including stationery and other articles, and postage on foreign mail matter, etc., was $1,067.18. fees The copyright fees received and paid into the United, Copyright States Treasury during the last twelve years, from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1909, amount to $858,422.75, while the sum used of the appropriations for salaries during that period was $729,468.07, leaving an excess of fees over appropriations used for service for the twelve years of $128,954.68. In addition to the actual money fees received during these same twelve years, the articles deposited amount to the grand total of 2,153,919 pieces. An itemized statement of these articles is given in Exhibit G. During the fiscal year 1,146 separate works were deposited under the act of March 3, 1905, to secure an ad interim term of protection of one year in the case of books printed abroad in foreign languages. COPYRIGHT ENTRIES AND FEES The entries of titles for the fiscal year numbered 120,131. Of these entries 108,281 were titles of the productions of citizens or residents of the United States, and 11,850 were titles of works by foreigners. The fees for these entries were: United States, $54,140.50; foreign, $11,850, or a total of $65,990.50. Of the foreign entries 2,749 were with certificates, and of the United States entries 29,606, or a total of 32,355 certificates, at fees amounting to $16,177.50. In addition, 1,783 copies of record were furnished for $891.50 in fees; assignments to the number of 604 were recorded and certified, at a charge of $720; and search fees charged to the amount of $37.25. The total copyright fees for the year amounted to $83,816.75. The details of the Copyright Office business and applied fees are set out in Exhibits A, B, and C. The number of entries in each class from July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, as compared with the number of entries made in the previous year, is shown in Exhibit F. COPYRIGHT DEPOSITS The various articles deposited in compliance with the copyright law, which have been receipted for, stamped, credited, indexed, and catalogued during the fiscal year, amount to 217,869. The number of these articles in each class for the twelve fiscal years is shown in Exhibit G. COPYRIGHT CATALOGUE AND INDEX The permanent title-index cards for the fiscal year numbered 130,265. After being first used as the copy for the printed catalogue, these cards were added to the permanent card indexes of the copyright entries. During the year the work of reducing the size of the card index by means of condensing entries for sets, etc., on ten and twelve line cards and eliminating duplicates was begun, and as a result 90,000 cards were withdrawn. The index now numbers a total of over 1,720,000 cards. Index cards catalogue, ne w The publication of the Catalogue of Copyright Entries as Copyright required by law has been continued. Since January, 1909, series Part I of the Catalogue has been issued in two sections, Group containing mainly the titles of books for which printed catalogue cards are issued by the Library of Congress, and Group 2 containing titles of pamhplets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc., including also local directories and annuals. The numbers printed for each of the four parts of the Catalogue are so prepared that they may be bound at the end of the year into separate volumes, which are separately indexed according to subject-matter. Subscriptions are taken by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, for the year 1909 for each part, as follows: Part I, Books, pamphlets, dramatic compositions, and maps and charts, $1.50; Part II, Periodicals, 75 cents; Part III, Musical compositions, $1.50; Part IV, Engravings, cuts and prints, chromos and lithographs, photographs, and the descriptions of original works of art paintings, drawings, and sculpture 75 cents. The price for the entire Catalogue for the year 1909 is $4. Beginning with the year 1910, however, the price for the entire Catalogue will be $3, and for the separate parts as follows: Part I, two volumes, $1; Part 2, $0.50; Part 3, $1; and Part 4, $0.50. BULLETINS AND CIRCULARS Annual statement of copyright The customary "Annual Statement," setting out in condensed form the statistics of the copyright business for the business calendar year 1908, was printed on January 6, 1909. 12721-09-7 Bulletins and circulars The principal bulletins and circulars printed by the Copyright Office during the fiscal year were as follows: 1. The copyright law of the United States of America, in force July 15, 1908. 6th edition, 6th thousand. 30 pp. 8°. 1908. (Bulletin No. 1.) 2. The copyright law of the United States of America, in force July 1, 1909. Replacing the Revised Statutes of the United States, Title 60, chapter 3 (1873), and subsequent amendatory Acts. Together with Rules for Practice and Procedure under section 25, by the Supreme Court of the United States. 3d impression, June 25, 1909. 43 pp. 8°. (Bulletin No. 14.) [Three editions with side notes and index have been printed since the Act was approved on March 4, 1909.] 3. International Copyright Union. Berne Convention, 1886; Paris Convention, 1896; Berlin Convention, 1908. Report of the Delegate of the United States to the International Conference for the revision of the Berne Copyright Convention, held at Berlin, Germany, October 14 to November 14, 1908. 69 pp. 4°. 1908. (Bulletin No. 13.) 4. Text of the Convention creating the International Copyright Union, September 5, 1887, together with Additional Articles, signed at Paris, May 4, 1896. 15 pp. 4°. 1908. (Information circular No. 4, reprinted.) International Copyright [Contains "Preliminary 5. Convention creating the Union. Revised text, 1908. remarks" and "Statement" by Thorvald Solberg, delegate of the United States to the Berlin Conference of 1908, with the Revised text of the Convention in English and French.] 12 pp. 4°. 1908. (Information circular No. 4, A.) 6. New Copyright Treaties negotiated by the United States. [Contains: I. Second Pan-American Convention, 1902, proclaimed April 9, 1908; II. Treaty between the United States and Japan for the protection of trademarks, copyrights, etc., in China, 1908; III. Treaty between the United States and Japan for the protection circular No. 39.) 7. Act of March 3, 1905. I. How reservation of copy- 8. Rules for Practice and Procedure under section 25 SUMMARY OF COPYRIGHT BUSINESS Balance on hand July 1, 1908- $1,876. 63 Gross receipts July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909--- 87,085.53 Total fees earned and paid into the Treasury during the twelve fiscal years from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1909- $858, 422. 75 Total unfinished business for the twelve years.. 81.66 Summary of copyright business: receipts, etc |