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
In witness whereof the publisher has on the day and year first
hereinabove written hereunto set his hand and seal and the Æolian
Company has caused its name and corporate seal to be hereunto
affixed by its proper officer thereunto duly authorized.
CLAYTON F. SUMMY CO. [SEAL.]
THE ÆOLIAN CO. [SEAL.]
By E. S. VOTEY,
_Director_.
Signature of publisher witnessed by--
J. F. BOWERS.
THEODOR WILD.
_Document No. 2._
Memorandum of agreement, made and entered into this 30th day of
April, 1902, by and between Clayton F. Summy Company, of Chicago,
in the State of Illinois, party of the first part, hereinafter
called the publisher, and the Æolian Company, a corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and having a
place of business in the city of New York, in the State of New
York, party of the second part, hereinafter called the Æolian
Company, witnesseth
That whereas the parties hereto have, of even date herewith,
entered into an agreement whereby the Æolian Company is to have
the exclusive right for all perforated music sheets intended for
use in controlling-automatic musical instruments or machines for
playing musical instruments, in and to the copyrighted musical
compositions of which the publisher is the proprietor or as to
which he is the owner of any rights, and in and to all those other
musical compositions which may hereafter be protected by copyright
and the copyrights or rights in which may be acquired by him; and
Whereas the parties hereto are desirous of entering into a further
agreement with reference to the matters and things expressed in
the above-mentioned agreement of even date herewith;
Now, therefore, the publisher, for and in consideration of the
premises and the sum of $1 lawful money of the United States, to
him by the Æolian Company in hand paid, receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, does hereby covenant and agree that no charge shall
be exacted from or be due from the Æolian Company for the
manufacture or sale by it, or any of its customers, of any
perforated music sheets of either of the kinds aforesaid, for
playing any of the copyrighted musical compositions which are
owned or controlled, or which shall be hereafter owned or
controlled in whole or in part by the publisher, until a decision
of the court of last resort in a suit which is to be instituted
against some manufacturer or user, other than the Æolian Company,
of such perforated music sheets, for the purpose of testing the
applicability of the United States copyright laws to such
perforated music sheets, and not then unless such decision shall
uphold the applicability of the United States copyright laws to
perforated music sheets of the kinds aforesaid.
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