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IV. Nature and Extent of Copyright-cont'd. Book: Entire contents protected.

43. The sole right to copy provided by this Act shall, in the case of a book or other literary production, extend to and protect all the original contents of such book, including text, notes, designs, maps, photographs, musical notation, everything covered by the title of the work and necessary to its completeness,and if the contents are by different contributors, copyright shall subsist in the work of each author, subject to the stipulations of any written contract of publication.

Oral lectures, addresses, sermons, speeches.

44. The author or proprietor of any lecture, address, sermon, speech, or similar production, prepared for public delivery, shall have, upon complying with the provisions of this Act:

(a) The exclusive right to deliver such lecture or address, or to authorize its delivery, in public for profit, during the lifetime of the author.

(b) The exclusive right of printing, distributing, publishing, reporting, or otherwise circulating copies of such lecture or address, during the life of the author and for fifty years after: Provided, That the customary newspaper report of any lecture or other public address shall not be deemed an infraction of this right, unless the author or lecturer, orally at the time of delivering such lecture, or in the printed or written public announcements of the intended delivery of such lecture, shall give warning that publication of the same in newspapers requires the direct consent of the author.

(c) In the case of the production of any lecture or address by printing or otherwise for public or private distribution, in order to reserve the sole right to deliver such lecture or address, as provided for by this Act, it shall be obligatory to print at the beginning of the work in a conspicuous place a notice that such right of delivery has been reserved.

IV. Nature and Extent of Copyright-cont'd.

TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT.

Assignment of copyright.

45. The owner of a copyright, or of the right of translation, or of the right of representation in a dramatic composition, or of the performing right in a musical composition, or of the right of delivery in the case of a lecture, may assign the right before or after publication, either wholly or partially, and either generally or with limitation to a particular place or period, or grant any interest therein by lease or license. Every assignment of copyright under this Act, and every license respecting the same, shall be by an instrument of writing signed by the assignor or licensor. The cession of the rights pertaining to an author, such as the right to publish, to sell, to represent, to perform, to translate, to arrange, to illustrate, must always be restrictively construed.

Foreign assignments.

46. In the case of an assignment of copyright executed in a foreign country, such assignment must be by an instrument of writing drawn and acknowledged in accordance with the provisions of law in force in relation to such documents in the country in which the same is executed.

Assignment to be recorded.

47. Every assignment of copyright shall be recorded in the Copyright Office within six calendar months after its execution; in default of which it shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice, whose assignment has been duly recorded.

Original or copy may be sent for record.

48. The original instrument of assignment may be sent for record, or, at the option of the persons interested, a true copy of the same, duly certified as such by any official authorized to give such certificate. In the case of an assignment executed in a foreign country, the

IV. Nature and Extent of Copyright-cont'd. Original or copy may be sent for record-cont'd. required certified copy shall be further authenticated by the impression of the seal of any consul or consular agent of the United States resident in the country or place where the instrument was made and certified. Assignments to be recorded, certified, and returned.

49. The Register of Copyrights shall record such assignment, upon payment of the prescribed fee, in a suitable series of Copyright Assignment Record books, kept for that purpose, and shall duly certify and return to the sender the original instrument, or the copy of the same as herein provided for; and he shall furnish to any person requesting the same a certified copy, under the seal of the Copyright Office, of any assignment recorded, upon the payment of the fee prescribed therefor by this Act.

Substitution of proprietor's name in notice.

50. In the case of every recorded assignment of the copyright in a specified book or other article, the assignee of the right shall have the privilege to substitute his name for that of the assignor in the statutory notice of copyright prescribed by this Act, provided the instrument of assignment contains the title or description of the article the copyright of which is assigned, and the required fee for the noting of such change of proprietorship on the original entry thereof and in the Copyright index, has been duly paid in addition to the fee prescribed for recording the instrument of assignment.

MEMORANDUM DRAFT

V. Duration of Copyright.

Term of copyright.

51. The copyright conferred by this Act shall endure for the following terms:

Original works, life and fifty years.

(a) In the case of an original work of the fine arts, an artistic reproduction, a musical composition, a dramatic composition, and any literary production, for the lifetime of the author, and until the expiration of fifty years after his death.

Joint authors.

(b) In the case of a work by joint authors, during their joint lives, and until the expiration of fifty years after the death of the last surviving author.

Anonymous or pseudonymous works.

(c) In the case of a work (not an original work of the fine arts) produced, printed, or published anonymously or under an assumed name, the copyright in the work shall subsist for the same period as if the work had been produced bearing the author's true name. Posthumous works.

(d) In the case of a work first published or performed, with authority of the copyright proprietor, after the death of the author, for the term of fifty years after the date of registration in the Copyright Office.

Composite or collective works, encyclopædias, etc.

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(e) In the case of a composite or collective work, such as an encyclopædia, a "library,' or "series," produced at the instance and expense of a publisher, the copyright in the work

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V. Duration of Copyright-cont'd. Composite or collective works, encyclopædias, etc.-cont'd. as a whole shall endure for fifty years after the date of the registration of such work in the Copyright Office: Provided, That in the absence of any contract in writing fixing upon a specific term during which the author of any special contribution to the work shall not publish his work separately, the publisher's term of copyright control for such contribution shall be construed to endure for five years from the date of the deposit for registration of the volume containing the said contribution.

Works completed from design of another.

(f) In the case of a work of the fine arts made or completed by one person from the original design of another, or of a cast from nature, for the term of fifty years after the date of registration of the work thus completed, in the Copyright Office.

Photographs.

(g) In the case of a photograph, for the term of fifty years after the date of the registration thereof in the Copyright Office.

Abridgments, compilations, dramatizations, translations.

52. In the case of any abridgment, compilation, dramatization, or translation of an original literary work, for the life of the author and for fifty years after his death.

Extension of term of existing copyright.

53. (a) The copyright subsisting in any work at the time when this Act shall go into effect, by virtue of any copyright laws of the United States, shall be and is hereby extended to endure for the full terms of copyright provided by this Act, for the sole use of the author of said work, if he be living.

Rights of assignee.

(b) In every case where an author has assigned his copyright, in whole or in part, before the time when this Act shall go into ef

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