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COPYRIGHT HEARINGS, DECEMBER 7 TO 11, 1906.

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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS,

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COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE SENATE:

ALFRED B. KITTREDGE, OF SOUTH DAKOTA, Chairman.

MOSES E. CLAPP, OF MINNESOTA.

REED SMOOT, OF UTAH.

MURPHY J. FOSTER, OF LOUISIANA.
ASBURY C. LATIMER, OF SOUTH CARO
LINA.

PHILANDER C. KNOX, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
STEPHEN R. MALLORY, OF FLORIDA.

THOMAS B. ROBERTS, Clerk.

COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRANK D. CURRIER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Chairman.

SOLOMON R. DRESSER, PENNSYLVANIA.

JOSEPH M. DIXON, MONTANA.

EDWARD H. HINSHAW, NEBRASKA.

JOHN C. CHANEY, INDIANA.
CHARLES MCGAVIN, ILLINOIS.
WILLIAM SULZER, NEW YORK.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.

Text of copyright bill (S. 6330; H. R. 19853)

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List of all persons present at hearings.

HEARING, Friday morning, December 7, 1906:

Statement of Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress

Statements by-

F. W. Hedgeland

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Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress.

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Charles S. Burton.

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George W. Ogilvie.

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George Haven Putnam, secretary American Publishers' Copyright

League

R. R. Bowker, vice-president American (Authors' ) Copyright League.

Memorandum on the bill to secure intellectual property

Robert Underwood Johnson, secretary American (Authors') Copy-

right League.

W. A. Livingstone, president Print Publishers' Association of America.

Memorandum of the Print Publishers of America

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C. P. Montgomery, customs division, Treasury Department

John McDougald, commissioner of customs, Canada

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International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, December 8,

1906.

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Arthur Steuart, chairman, copyright committee American Bar Asso-

George Haven Putnam, secretary American Publishers' Copyright

League