Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright: June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906.United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
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Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright: June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
Copyright -- United States
Mr. REMICH. No. In selling we do this: We have a pictorial
illustration of the Holy Land. It includes perhaps fifty pictures, but
it covers the whole of the Holy Land. One is taken in Jerusalem, one
in Jaffa, and one at Damascus, for instance. We should be glad to
comply with any law that will protect us and not inject doubts into
our business and encourage piracy.
Mr. CURRIER. Mr. Webb desires to know if this amendment would take
care of your matter: "Insert after 'seal,' in line 6, page 37, the
words 'provided only 50 cents shall be charged for each stereoscopic
view filed and registered.'"
Mr. REMICH. That is all right. And if we want a certificate in our
business, we will come and, as the old lady said, "heave down our 50
cents and get it."
Mr. PUTNAM. "_Provided_, That in the case of stereoscopic views the
certificate should not be furnished unless required, and in that case
the fee shall be," etc.
Mr. CURRIER. And in such case no certificate shall be issued unless
the regular fee is paid.
Mr. REMICH. That is perfectly satisfactory; but any attempt to define
by series is sure to be unsatisfactory.
Mr. CURRIER. I think you may be right about this matter of series.
STATEMENT OF A. BELL MALCOMSON, ESQ.
Mr. MALCOMSON. I intend, Mr. Chairman, to be brief. The remarks that I
shall make are pertinent more to correct the law so as to make it more
definite than for any other purpose. I have prepared a short statement
of just what the changes I propose are. The matter is one relating to
lithographs. I represent Mr. McLaughlin, or McLaughlin Brothers, who
are probably the largest lithographers in the country. Mr. McLaughlin
has spent millions in perfecting that art in this country. He,
unfortunately, is abroad at the present time, and has asked me to be
here to represent him.
Lithographs have always been mentioned in the former copyright bills.
A lithograph is something different from any other production of a
picture or of any pictorial illustration. But in this case it has been
thought by the framers of the bill that the words "print or pictorial
illustration" would cover lithographs.
The CHAIRMAN. Please refer to the section of the bill that you wish to
call attention to.
Mr. MALCOMSON. I am referring to page 4, line 4.
Mr. CHANEY. "Prints and pictorial illustrations?"
Mr. MALCOMSON. Yes. The word "lithograph" is not mentioned in the
subjects of copyright. It has always heretofore been mentioned. The
suggestion that I find in the little memorandum that was attached in
relation to the bill is: "It is assumed, however, that these will be
included under the more general terms as prints and pictorial
illustrations;" that is, that lithographs, it is presumed by the
framers of this bill, will be included under that term.
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