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
And the publisher, for the consideration aforesaid, hereby
covenants and agrees, so far as it may be reasonably in his power,
to protect the Æolian Company against any claim of any third
person in respect to any and all copyrighted musical compositions
which may be involved in this agreement, and the copyright of
which may be owned by the publisher.
And the Æolian Company, for and in consideration of the premises,
hereby agrees that it will keep correct and true books of account
in which it will set down or cause to be set down entries of all
perforated music sheets made by it for playing the copyrighted
musical compositions owned or controlled by the publisher; that it
will on the 20th day of each and every January and July, during
the continuance of the manufacture and sale by it of the
perforated music sheets for playing such musical compositions,
render unto the publisher a correct and true statement of the
number, names, and other designations of such perforated music
sheets sold by it during the six preceding calendar months, and
that at the time of rendering each and every such statement it
will well and truly pay unto the publisher a license fee or
royalty of 10 per cent of the list prices made by the United
States publishers of the printed scores or copies of such musical
compositions, but never more than 50 cents for any one of such
perforated music sheets.
And the parties hereto mutually covenant and agree that nothing
herein contained is to obligate the Æolian Company to pay any
license fee or royalty upon such perforated music sheets as shall
be made by it in the United States and sold or shipped to any
other country, unless it shall have been decided by a court of
competent jurisdiction of such other country that the copyright
laws of that country shall be applicable to perforated music
sheets of the kinds herein mentioned.
And the parties hereto mutually agree and covenant that the term
"perforated music sheets" is not to be construed as covering the
controllers of those musical instruments which are generally known
as phonographs, or music boxes, or hand organs.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, at the expiration
of thirty-five years from the payment of the first license fee
hereinbefore provided, the Æolian Company shall not be entitled to
licenses under the copyrights thereafter acquired by the
publisher, but all licenses existing under copyrights theretofore
acquired by him shall remain in force until the expiration of the
terms of the copyrights under the terms hereinbefore provided.
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