fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes. [Providing against transmission through the mails of any publication which violates copyright.] Statutes at Large, vol. 20, p. 359. August 1, 1882-Forty-seventh Congress, first session, chapter 366: An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to copyright. [Position of notice of copyright in the case of decorative articles.] Statutes at Large, vol. 22, p. 181. March 3, 1891 [SO-CALLED INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT]-Fifty-first Congress, second session, chapter 565: An Act to amend title 60, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights. [Extending copyright, in certain cases, to works by foreign authors.] Statutes at Large, vol. 26, pp. 1106-1110. March 3, 1893-Fifty-second Congress, second session, chapter 215: An Act relating to copyrights. [Enabling act, giving the same effect to copies deposited prior to March 1, 1893, as to copies deposited on or before publication.] Statutes at Large, vol. 27, p. 743. January 12, 1895-Fifty-third Congress, third session, chapter 23, section 52: An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents. [Providing that no Government publication shall be copyrighted.] Statutes at Large, vol. 28, p. 608. March 2, 1895-Fifty-third Congress, third session, chapter 194: An Act to amend section 4965, chapter 3, title 60, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights. [Providing damages in cases of infringement of photographs, and works of art.] Statutes at Large, vol. 28, p. 965. January 6, 1897-Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, chapter 4: An Act to amend title 60, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes, relating to copyrights. [Enacting that unauthorized representation, willful and for profit, is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment.] Statutes at Large, vol. 29, pp. 481, 482. February 19, 1897-Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, chapter 265 [Section-Library of Congress]: An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes. [Providing for the appointment of a Register of Copyrights.] Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 545. March 3, 1897-Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, chapter 392: An Act to amend title 60, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights. [Providing penalty for printing false claim of copyright and prohibiting the importation of articles bearing false claim of copyright.] Statutes at Large, vol. 29, pp. 694, 695. January 7, 1904-Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, chapter 2: An Act to afford protection to exhibitors of foreign literary, artistic, or musical works at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Statutes at Large, vol. 33, part 1, pp. 4-5. For full text see pages 19-20. March 3, 1905-Fifty-eighth Congress, third session, chapter 1432: An Act to amend section 4952 of the Revised Statutes. [Providing a year's interval after first publication abroad, during which authors of books in foreign languages may secure reservation of copyright for such works.] Statutes at Large, vol. 33, part 1, pp. 1000–1001. For full text see page 21. List of Countries with which the United States have established Copyright relations. pp. 1021-1022.) July 1, 1891-Belgium, France, Great Britain and her possessions, and Switz- July 10, 1895-Spain. (Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 871.) October 19, 1899-Costa Rica. (Statutes at Large, vol. 31, pp. 1955-1956.) November 20, 1899-Netherlands (Holland) and possessions. (Statutes at Large, vol. 31, p. 1961.) November 17, 1903-Cuba. (Statutes at Large, vol. 33, part 2, p. 2324.) January 13, 1904-China. (Treaty of October 8, 1903, Article XI.) (Statutes at Large, vol. 33, part 2, pp. 2208, 2213.) July 1, 1905-Norway. (Statutes of 1st sess. 59th Cong., part II, 1906. Proclamations, pp. 125–126.) May 17, 1906-Japan. (Treaty of November 10, 1905.) (Statutes of 1st sess. 59th Cong., part II, 1906. Treaties, pp. 50-51.) THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF THE UNITED STATES. CONSTITUTION, 1787. ART. 1, SEC. 8. The Congress shall have power: To pro mote the progress of science and useful arts, BY SECURING FOR LIMITED TIMES TO AUTHORS and inventors THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO THEIR respective WRITINGS and discoveries. ACTS OF CONGRESS. The text of sections 4948 to 4970, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes is printed in long-primer type, the amendments passed subsequent to the Revised Statutes being indicated by italic type, and omissions, by brackets and footnotes. SECTION 4948. All records and other things relating to copyrights and required by law to be preserved, shall be under the control of the Librarian of Congress, and kept and preserved in the Library 5 of Congress. [] [-- -- - [The Appropriation Act approved February 19, 1897, provides for the appointment of a "Register of Copyrights, who shall, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the direc10 tion and supervision of the Librarian of Congress, perform all the duties relating to copyrights, and shall make weekly deposits with the Secretary of the Treasury, and make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Librarian of Congress, 15 and shall, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, give bond to the Librarian of Congress, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with approved sureties, for the faithful discharge of his duties."]1a 20 SEC. 4949. The seal provided for the office of the Librarian of Congress shall be the seal thereof, and by it all records and papers issued from the office and to be used in evidence shall be authenticated." Copyright rec ords. Register of copy rights. Seal of the copy. right office. 1 The words omitted are: "and the Librarian of Congress shall have the immediate care and supervision thereof, and, under the supervision of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, shall perform all acts and duties required by law touching copyrights." 1a Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 545. 2 See Act of July 8, 1870, section 85: "The Librarian shall cause a seal to be provided for said office, with such device as the Joint Committee on the Library may approve, with which all records or papers issued from said office and to be used in evidence, shall be authenticated."-Statutes at Large, vol. 16, p. 212. (5) Bond of Librarian of Congress. Annual report to Congress of copy SEC. 4950. [--------'] The Appropriation Act approved February 19, 1897, provides: "The Librarian of Congress shall on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, give bond, payable to the United States, in the sum of twenty 5 thousand dollars, with sureties approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful discharge of his duties according to law." 2a SEC. 4951. The Librarian of Congress shall make right publications. an annual report to Congress of the number and 10 description of copyright publications for which entries have been made during the year. Author, etc., and his assigns shall ing. [--- SEC. 4952. [] The author, inventor, have sole liberty of designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, printing and vend- dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, 15 print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors, administrators, or assigns of any such person shall, upon 20 complying with the provisions of this chapter, have the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vending the same; and, in the case of a dramatic composition, of publicly performing or rep- 25 resenting it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others; and authors or their assigns shall have exclusive right to dramatize and translate any of their works for which copyright shall have been obtained under the laws of the United States. 30 [- - - - - - 3] Authors shall have exclusive right to dramatize or translate. Book first pub lished abroad. "Whenever the author or proprietor of a book in a foreign language, which shall be published in a foreign country before the day of publication 2a Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 545. 3 Section 4950, replaced by the above paragraph from the Appropriation Act of February 19, 1897, reads as follows: "The Librarian of Congress shall give a bond, with sureties, to the Treasurer of the United States, in the sum of five thousand dollars, with the condition that he will render to the proper officers of the Treasury a true account of all moneys received by virtue of his office." The words of the original law omitted are: "Any citizen of the United States or resident therein, who shall be." 5 The words in italics are substituted for "And authors may reserve the right to dramatize or to translate their own works,” by the Act of March 3, 1891 (51st Congress, 2d session, chap. 565.) copy within thirty Notice of copyright for foreign in this country, or his executors, administrators, Deposit of one or assigns, shall deposit one complete copy of the days. same, including all maps and other illustrations, in the Library of Congress, Washington, District 5 of Columbia, within thirty days after the first publication of such book in a foreign country, and shall insert in such copy, and in all copies of such book sold or distributed in the United States, on the title page or the page immediately following, a 10 notice of the reservation of copyright in the name of the proprietor, together with the true date of first publication of such book, in the following words: 'Published nineteen hundred and Privilege of copyright in the United States reserved edition. 15 under the act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, by ,' and shall, within twelve months after the first publication of such book in a foreign country, file the title of such book and deposit two copies of it in the original language or, 20 at his option, of a translation of it in the English language, printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or from plates made therefrom, containing a notice of copyright, as provided by the copyright laws now in force, he and they 25 shall have during the term of twenty-eight years from the date of recording the title of the book or of the English translation of it, as provided for above, the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, vending, translating, and dramatizing the 30 said book: Provided, That this act shall only apply who may secure resto a citizen or subject of a foreign State or nation ervation. when such foreign State or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its 35 own citizens." 5a Foreign authors Definition of engraving," In the construction of this act, the words “ engraving," ""cut" and "print" shall be applied only to "cut" pictorial illustrations or works connected with the "print." and 5a The text of Section 4952, given above, is that of the amendatory act of March 3, 1905. (58th Congress, 1st session, chap. 1432: 33 Statutes at Large, part I, pp. 1000-1001.) The new text is in italics, beginning with the word Whenever," page 6, line 32. 66 |