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
Section 4956, page 8.--Preliminary deposit of title or description
abolished. "Photographs" omitted from the "manufacturing clause."
["Chromos" also, in terms, but assumed to be covered by
"lithographs."]
Section 4956, page 9.--Importation by individuals of the foreign
edition (two copies at any one time) is abolished except with the
assent of the American copyright proprietor, and the two copies at
a time are throughout reduced to one. The privilege of societies
and institutions (under the act of October 1, 1890) is no longer to
include the importation, without such assent, of "a foreign reprint
of a book by an American author copyrighted in the United States
unless copies of the American edition can not be supplied by the
American publisher or copyright proprietor;" and the society or
institution must be incorporated, unless it be a "college, academy,
school, or seminary of learning" or a "State school, college,
university, or free public library."
Section 4957, page 9.--The particular language of the entry in the
record books of the copyright office is no longer specified.
Section 4959, page 11.--Deposit of "subsequent editions" not
required unless the "changes" which they contain are "substantial"
enough to induce a new registration.
Section 4960, page 12.--Provisions of act of March 1, 1893, dropped
as no longer effective.
Section 4962, page 13.--_Notice._--The date and the word "by" no
longer required in the notice. The abbreviation "Copr.," and in
certain cases the letter C within a circle, permissible instead of
the full word "Copyright."
Sections 4963, page 13; 4964, page 14; 4965, page 15; 4966, page
16.--Penalties imposed for acts in the nature of misdemeanors no
longer to be shared by the United States with "a person" suing for
them; sums recovered by way of compensation to the copyright
proprietor not to be shared by him with the United States. All
infringements willful and for profit made misdemeanors, and the
remedies provided by sections 4965 and 4966, including the
specifications of a definite sum for each infringing copy, etc.,
and a minimum and maximum total are expressed definitely as
compensation to the copyright proprietor rather than penalties.
Section 4964, page 14.--Witnesses not to be required for the
written consent of the copyright proprietor.
Act of March 3, 1891, page 18.--Only one fee to be required in case
of several volumes, or numbers or (in certain cases) parts of a
series deposited at the same time with a view to a single
registration.
Act of January 7, 1904, page 19.--Omitted as obsolete.
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