Mr. SERVEN. The reason that the composer has not gone hand in hand with the literary man and with the inventor, who produce their works from the brain, is because thus far our country has not been so ready to concede to them the right of absolute use and control of their works. The inventor has the right to say just who shall produce his invention, just what it shall be sold for, if he wants to limit it as to that, and just who shall buy it, even, if he wants to go as far as that. Mr. DRESSER. I doubt that. The CHAIRMAN. An idea has just occurred to me. I understood you to say yesterday that this movement to enforce the law arose from the fact that men like Mr. Tams had gone into the renting or lending of musical works as a business. Mr. FURNESS. I would like to treat of that later. The CHAIRMAN. And that that was the feature which you wished to reach. Suppose this committee should amend this law so as to provide that the renting or lending of these books should be confined to the societies, as we indicated yesterday, that give charitable performances without profit, so that they could only borrow from other similar societies. Mr. FURNESS. Mr. Chairman, if you will allow me, I would like to speak of that a little later. The CHAIRMAN. That would entirely wipe out the evil which you suggested to the committee yesterday. Mr. FURNESS. I doubt whether there is any great number of those people in the United States. You take choirs and churches. Of course churches are not in commercial line of business; they have no means of earning money except by general subscription by members or sale of the seats, and there are a very few cases where the Sunday school wishes to give an entertainment for charity. Those compositions are very inexpensive. Mr. Tams yesterday tried to make you believe that some of them cost $2 apiece. That is not true. The short cantatas and little operettas run from $4 a hundred to 35 cents apiece, and in very few cases higher than 40 cents. In regard to the renting, we have made provision for that in the new copyright draft that is being framed, the publisher or author or owner of the copyright, whoever he is, should have the right to make such loan, but that it should not be done through what we term the scalper. The CHAIRMAN. Do you think the publishers would greatly object if the lending of these books was confined to a religious or school society, and the loan was made to a similar society for charitable performances? Mr. FURNESS. We have in Massachusetts, in Worcester, a musical society that gives an entertainment each spring, called the May Festival. Mr. SERVEN. Do they charge an admission?