In section 1, subdivision C, provision is made for the protection of an "oral delivery" which has been prepared. Would it not be well to specifically allow a speaker to announce at the conclusion of an extemporaneous address his intention of copyrighting it, not permitting this announcement, however, to interfere with the liberty of the press in reporting portions of it? Section 9 directs that notice of copyright shall be given at each public delivery of a lecture or similar work. Does "similar work" include dramatic composition? Is the proposed notice to be given orally, or by publication on a programme, if there is a programme? It would seem that in the case of a dramatic composition theatrical managers should be compelled by law to print on each programme copyright notice of the play or plays produced, being allowed, where there is no programme, to announce it orally. It would also seem important that in the case of a dramatic composition publicly acted in foreign countries notice of copyright in the United States, together with legal title of the work in English, be printed on the programmes, as well as on the manuscript copies of the play. This would serve as a notice against translators, who otherwise would have great difficulty in finding out whether a foreign play had been copyrighted here, since the name of the play or its English equivalent rather, would be very uncertain. Does the new law specifically require all titles to be also in English? Does the law provide for the registration of the title in advance of the deposit of copies as at present--a valuable privilege? Section 20 seems calculated to work an injustice to novelists. That the author's exclusive right to dramatize his copyrighted work should cease in the event of his being unable within ten years to induce managers to produce his dramatization would be unfair--would, in fact, encourage producers to wait until after ten years before producing a dramatization of a novel. Would it not be sufficient to state that the exclusive right terminates at the end of ten years provided the author does not file at least an unpublished dramatized version? Does this section 20 mean that a foreign dramatist who deposits an unpublished and untranslated copy of a dramatic composition loses his rights if his play is not produced publicly in ten years, or does it allow him to deposit a translated unpublished copy any time within ten years, in order to protect his rights?