Mr. PUTNAM. If the words "only in pose or composition" were stricken out, would there be a material reduction in your fees? In the first place, it seems to me that it would be convenient for us to know--how many copyright entries do you make in the course of a year? Mr. REMICH. I can not tell. Mr. PUTNAM. Have you any idea? Mr. REMICH. It varies with different years. Mr. PUTNAM. Would it run up into thousands? Mr. REMICH. Some years I think it does. Mr. PUTNAM. If you were privileged to register under one fee works in a series---- Mr. REMICH. But what would be a "series?" That is the question. Mr. CURRIER. Representing the same subject. Mr. PUTNAM. Representing the same subject under the same title with only slight variances, but not the variances described here as "only in pose or composition." What we would like to know is, would it enable you to enter a great many of these articles under one fee that you now enter separately? Mr. REMICH. That depends upon what you call the same subject. Mr. CURRIER. Is seems to me that you would have to introduce the word "general;" that is, make it read "the same general subject." Mr. REMICH. If you introduce that who will decide what is the same general subject, except the courts? It would encourage law suits. The CHAIRMAN. It would be the Librarian, would it not? Mr. REMICH. His decision would not be final. The law says we can go to the courts and test his construction. The CHAIRMAN. It would be the Librarian, so far as your fees were concerned? Mr. REMICH. Yes; but we do not want to pay a fee unless it is to be registered in such a way that the court will hold that we have a legal registration. We have an artist in San Francisco; and if we could register under one entry all the views that he will take in San Francisco while he is there, which will probably be 500 different subjects, for half a dollar, we would like to do it. But what subjects that he takes in San Francisco can we include as a series and have protected? He will take the Pacific Hotel, showing its ruin and present condition, and he may take a Chinese camp, and he may take the Flood Building, and so on. How many can we get into a series and have the court protect us when we come to try a case? That is the difficulty. Suppose this said you shall enter under a series all churches in Paris--under one entry fee, for 50 cents--that we may enter all negatives that we take of churches there. How will you describe it in your entry upon the book? Suppose we go to Rome, where they have 365 Catholic churches; they are not grouped in any way; we can not pose them. How will you describe the 365 views? Will you describe them as 365 views of the churches of Rome, or will you specify them under one head? You can see the difficulties, gentlemen. Mr. PUTNAM. Do you not publish those in series for selling purposes sometimes?