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
"That the copyright provided by this act shall extend to and
protect all the copyrightable component parts of the work
copyrighted, any and all reproductions or copies thereof, in
whatever form, style, or size, and all matter reproduced therein
in which copyright is already subsisting, and the devices,
appliances, or contrivances mentioned in section 1, subdivision
(_g_) of this act, but without extending the duration of such
copyright."
Section 23, subdivision (_b_)----
The CHAIRMAN. I suppose the other amendments are simply to follow if
the first amendment is approved?
Mr. PUTNAM. If the first amendment is approved; that is my
understanding.
Mr. SERVEN. Mr. Chairman, that is true with the exception of one
amendment. The Musical Publishers' Association suggests that the same
right of appeal and review in interlocutory judgments and orders
should be provided for in the new bill as is provided for in the
existing law. That is the only thing that is different.
Mr. HORACE PETTIT. Mr. Chairman, may I ask Mr. Serven whether he will
add to his amended section 3 the clause which I suggested in my
amendment to the original section 3? It would accomplish the same
purpose as I had intended. My suggestion of amendment would also apply
to your amended section 3, which adds:
_And provided_, That no devices, contrivances, or appliances,
or dies or matrices for making the same, made prior to the date
this act shall go into effect, shall be subject to any subsisting
copyright.
Mr. SERVEN, Yes, Mr. Chairman; I think that is only fair to the
interests represented.
Mr. PETTIT. You accept that as an addition to your amendment?
Mr. SERVEN. We are very glad to, indeed. We think that is perfectly
fair.
Mr. CURRIER. A suggestion was made here the other day, the first day
of the hearings, to strike out section 3, I think.
M. PETTIT. Well, either that or that my amendment be added to it.
Mr. CURRIER. Yes. Who was the gentleman who replied to you.
Mr. PETTIT. Mr. Fuller, of New York.
Mr. CURRIER. I understood Mr. Fuller to say that the question of
whether subsisting copyrights covered these mechanical devices was now
in the court, and they thought the court might hold that such devices
were now covered. If such should be the decision of the court, would
it not prohibit the use of graphophone cylinders and records already
made and in use, if they were records of music covered by a subsisting
copyright, under that section 3?
Mr. PETTIT. If the decision of the court were such as to include
talking-machine records or other sound records within the subsisting
law, of course it would prohibit that.
Mr. CURRIER. Does any gentleman here think we ought to legislate along
that line?
Mr. PETTIT. Not that I know of. I do not understand that they think
so, unless Mr. Fuller was misunderstood.
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