INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON Executive E, 73d Congress THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE 311545 APRIL 15 AND 17, 1941 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1941 NITED STATES OF AMERICA Page Brylawski, Fulton, attorney at law, Washington, D. C.- 141 Leland, Waldo G., representing the committee for the study of copy- Lockwood, John E., general counsel of the Office of the Coordinator 39 Melcher, Frederick G., president of R. R. Bowker & Co., publishers; chairman of the copyright committee of the Book Publishers Bu- Sargoy, Edward A., chairman of committee on copyrights of the section of patent, trade-mark, and copyright law of the American Trueblood, Edward G., Assistant Chief, Division of Cultural Rela- 37 Ware, Edith E., executive secretary of the committee for the study of copyright, American Council of Learned Societies, Washington, Bunker, Frank F., Christian Science Committee on Publication for 193 Coulson, Robert E., New York, N. Y. 191 Futrelle, May, national chairman of copyright, National League of 186 Hinrichs, A. F., Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Depart- 195 Kilroe, Edwin P., general counsel, Twentieth-Century Fox Pictures, Inc., chairman of the copyright committee of the Motion Picture Distributors and Producers Association, New York, N. Y. 59, 182 Leland, Waldo G., representing the committee for the study of 114 Randolph, Woodruff, secretary-treasurer, International Allied Print- 172 Raney, M. L., director of the university libraries of the University of 109 Rawlings, Majorie Kinnan, Hawthorn, Fla. Schirmer, G., Inc., Music Publishers, New York, N. Y Taylor, Wayne C., Acting Secretary of Commerce, Department of Tiffany, J. Raymond, Book Manufacturers' Institute, Inc., New 116 Ware, Dr. Edith E., executive secretary of the committee for the study 108 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE, The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in the committee room, Capitol Building, Senator Elbert D. Thomas (chairman) presiding. Present, Senators Thomas (chairman), Murray, Johnson of California, and Capper. Present also: Representative Sol Bloom, of New York; Hon. Breckenridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State; Dr. Wallace McClure, Edward G. Trueblood, James A. White, representing the State Department; Hon. Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; Francis Gilbert, representing G. Schirmer, Inc.; Fulton Brylawski and Edwin P. Kilroe, representing the motion-picture producers; John E. Lockwood, of the Office of Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics; Col. C. L. Bouvé, Register of Copyrights; Thorvald Solberg, former Register of Copyrights; Waldo G. Leland and Dr. Edith E. Ware, representing the Committee for the Study of Copyright of the National Committee of the United States on International Intellectual Cooperation; Stephen P. Ladas; A. J. Brylawski, representing the Theatre Owners of America; Woodruff Randolph, secretary-treasurer of the International Allied Printing Trades Association; Sidney M. Haye, representing the National Association of Broadcasters; Frederich G. Melcher, chairman of the Copyright Committee of the Book Publishers Bureau, Inc. Senator THOMAS of Utah. I will ask the reporter to insert in its proper place the treaty, with the letters of transmittal from the President of the United States and the Secretary of State, together with a copy of the last report of the subcommittee to the Senate recommending the ratification of the convention. (The matters referred to are as follows:) 1 |