...before your Committee. Section 8 of present title 17, United States Code, provides (in part) as follows: "No copyright shall subsist in the original text of...published in this country or any foreign country prior to July 1, 1009, and has not been already copyrighted in the United States, or in any publication of the...

...your Committee. Section S of present title 17, United States Codo, provides (in part) as follows: "Xo copyright shall subsist in the original text of any...published in this country or any foreign country prior to July 1, 1909, and has not been already copyrighted in the United States, or in any publication of the...

...original works, or to secure or extend copyright in such original works; nor shall copyright exist in the original text of any work which is in the public domain. [SKC. 7. That no copyright shall subsist in the original text of any work which is in the public domain,...

...ALREADY COPYRIGHTED, OR GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS; PUBLICATION BY GOVERNMENT OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. — No copyright shall subsist in the original text of...published in this country or any foreign country prior to July 1, 1909, and has not been already copyrighted in the SEC. 6. That compilations or abridgements,...