S.gress. Senate. Committee on patents.

COPYRIGHT HEARINGS, DECEMBER 7 TO 11, 1906.

ARGUMENTS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEES ON PATENTS

OF THE

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONJOINTLY,

ON THE BILLS

S. 6330 AND H. R. 19853.

TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE ACTS
RESPECTING COPYRIGHT.

DECEMBER 7, 8, 10, AND 11, 1906.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1906.

FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS,

COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE SENATE.

ALFRED B. KITTREDGE, OF SOUTH DAKOTA, Chairman.

MOSES E. CLAPP, OF MINNESOTA.
REED SMOOT, OF UTAH.

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

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

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.

ROBERT W. BONYNGE, COLORADO.

WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, OHIO.
ANDREW J. BARCHFELD, PENNSYL-

VANIA.

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

GEORGE S. LEGARE, SOUTH CAROLINA.

EDWIN Y. WEBB, NORTH CAROLINA.
ROBERT G. SOUTHALL, VIRGINIA.
JOHN GILL, JR., MARYLAND.

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EDWARD A. BARNEY, Clerk.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.

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

List of all persons present at hearings...

HEARING, Friday morning, December 7, 1906:

Statement of Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress

Statements by-

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William P. Cutter

HEARING, Friday afternoon, December 7, 1906:

Statements by-

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

English copyright act of August 4, 1906.

Thomas Nelson Page.

Frank D. Millet

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

Memorandum of the Print Publishers of America

C. P. Montgomery, customs division, Treasury Department

John McDougald, commissioner of customs, Canada

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Arthur Steuart, chairman, copyright committee American Bar Asso-

ciation..

George Haven Putnam, secretary American Publishers' Copyright

League

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Memoranda on sections 9, 13, and 30 of the bill

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Draft of amendment by Ansley Wilcox

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Reginald De Koven.

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201

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Nathan Burkan

J. L. Tindale.

(RECAP)

APR -6 1908226622

HEARING, Monday morning, December 10, 1906:

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Statements by-

J. F. Bowers, president Music Publishers' Association of the United

Copyright from Publishers' standpoint, from Music Trades, December
1, 1906...

242

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

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

right League.

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Memorandum of objections to the bill by Philip Mauro .

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369

HEARING, Tuesday morning, December 11, 1906:

Statements by-

Statement of the general term of copyright in various countries.....

Amendments approved by American (Authors') Copyright League....

Memorandum of the committee on copyright and trade mark of the Asso-

ciation of the Bar of the City of New York...

Substitute draft prepared by Mr. C. S. Burton from his former draft
(M. Clark Piano Company) and the draft of Mr. Charles Porterfield, and

sundry suggestions of Mr. George W. Pound, Mr. J. J. O'Connell, and

others, at the December hearings.

Substitute draft prepared by Mr. Charles Porterfield

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Secs.

[Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.]

A BILL To amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright.

1-3. Nature of copyright.

4- 7. Subject-matter of copyright.

8. Who may obtain copyright.

9-17. How to secure copyright.

18-20. Duration of copyright.

(S. 6330; H. R. 19853.)

CONTENTS.

Secs.

21-36. Protection of copyright.

37-45. Transfer of copyright.

46-60. Copyright Office.

61-64. Miscellaneous provisions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United Staes of America in Congress assembled, That the copyright

secured by this act shall include the sole and exclusive right:

(a) For the purposes set forth in subsection (b) hereof, to make

any copy of any work or part thereof the subject of copyright under

the provisions of this act, or to abridge, adapt, or translate into an-

other language or dialect any such work, or make any other version

thereof;

(b) To sell, distribute, exhibit, or let for hire, or offer or keep for

sale, distribution, exhibition, or hire, any copy of such work;

(c) To deliver, or authorize the delivery of, in public for profit,
any copyrighted lecture, sermon, address, or similar production pre-
pared for oral delivery;

(d) To publicly perform or represent a copyrighted dramatic
work, or to convert it into a novel or other nondramatic work;

(e) To dramatize any copyrighted nondramatic work and produce
the same either by publication or performance;

(f) To publicly perform a copyrighted musical work, or any part

thereof, or for purpose of public performance or the purposes set

forth in subsection (b) hereof to make any arrangement or setting

of such work, or of the melody thereof, in any system of notation;

(g) To make, sell, distribute, or let for hire any device, contriv

ance, or appliance especially adapted in any manner whatsoever to

reproduce to the ear the whole or any material part of any work

published and copyrighted after this act shall have gone into effect,

or by means of any such device or appliance publicly to reproduce to

the ear the whole or any material part of such work.

(h) To produce any abridgment, variation, adaptation, or ar-

rangement of a copyrighted work of art.

SEC. 2. That nothing in this act shall be construed to annul or

limit the right of the author or proprietor of an unpublished work,

at common law or in equity, to prevent the copying, publication, or

use of such unpublished work without his consent, or to obtain dam-

ages therefor.

SEC. 3. That the copyright provided by this act shall extend to

and protect all the copyrightable component parts of the work copy-

righted, any and all reproductions or copies thereof, in whatever

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