In no respect are the present statutes alleged to be less satisfactory than in their provisions for the protection of the right, and redress to the copyright proprietor for invasion of it. One inconvenience is that they provide a different class of remedies and recoveries for different subject-matter; another is that they seem to confuse the duty of the Government to punish a deliberate infringement as it would punish any other theft with the right of the copyright proprietor for compensation for his particular losses. The bill attempts to provide uniform remedies, and it divorces the civil action from the criminal. As the memorandum states it, "Penalties imposed for acts in the nature of misdemeanors are no longer to be shared by the United States with a person suing for them;" nor "are sums recovered by way of compensation to the copyright proprietor to be shared by him with the United States." Nor is his right to recover such sums to be imperiled by the necessity of proving that the defendant has committed an offense against the community as well as profited at his expense. The deliberate theft of a dramatic or musical composition by the willful performance of it for profit, without the assent of the owner, author, or copyright proprietor, is now by law a misdemeanor. The conference could not see why this provision should not apply to any infringement which is both willful and for profit, and section 25 of the bill extends it to all such. The existing provision (sec. 4966, Rev. Stat.) which provides remedies and penalties for infringement of dramatic and musical copyrights, is of great moment to the dramatists and composers; and now that it is merged in the general provisions of this and other sections of the bill they are in great apprehension lest it may suffer accident, if accident befall these. To guard against this the general repealing clause of the bill excepts and continues in force section 4966 of the Revised Statutes, but it does so with the intention that this exception shall be dropped in case the general provisions stand.