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
Mr. Sousa himself does not scorn, as he pretended to the other day,
these "infernal talking machines." The day has been when Mr. Sousa
himself came with advance scores and begged to have them put upon the
machines, in order that they might popularize his own music. Nor is
that all. He to-day is under contract, and he plays into these
"infernal machines" with his band, and he is contributing, as he told
you a few days ago, to stifle these "beautiful young voices that now
have disappeared throughout our city and our land." [Laughter.] He
does it for the almighty dollar. That is what he is after, and he
frankly told you so.
Mr. SOUSA. I am honest, anyway. [Laughter.]
Mr. CAMERON. You are; and, as I said to you the other day, I respect
you for it. All the men urging this bill are not as honest as you are,
sir.
Mr. CHANEY. That is neither here nor there. We give them all credit
for being honest.
Mr. CAMERON. I would not have made that remark if I had not been
interrupted.
It was stated a moment ago, and it is a fact of which I wanted to
speak, that the intention here is to give everyone a fair show. The
gentleman here on my left (Mr. Webb) suggested that this bill would
not prohibit the perforated music rolls (and the same question would
apply to the graphophonic cylinder) from the reproduction of those
pieces of music or other copyrightable works which had appeared and
been copyrighted prior to this act. In that he is in error. Section 3
says:
Any and all reproductions, or copies thereof, in whatever form,
style, or size, and all matter reproduced therein in which
copyright is already subsisting.
So that it does not go only to matter that is copyrighted subsequent
to the passage of this act.
Mr. WEBB. I was speaking particularly of section g. That was the
section that the gentleman was objecting to, and I referred to that
particular portion.
Mr. CAMERON. The act, however, would apply by reason of section 3 to
subsisting copyright.
Mr. WEBB. Yes; that may be so.
Mr. CAMERON. There is a situation in the talking-machine art that is
perhaps divisible. You see two distinct forms of records. The company
which I represent--the American Graphophone Company--makes both of
those forms. There are a great many other companies, some of them
making the machines and the records, and some of them making only the
records. Some of them make the cylindrical form of record and some of
them make the disk form of record; but there are two large, prominent
companies, one of which makes the disk form of record and the other of
which makes the cylindrical form of record. As I say, the company
which I represent makes both.
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