I should recommend also that a specific clause be added making it a misdemeanor to copy from an unpublished manuscript any portion without authority, or to be found in the possession of an unpublished copyrighted manuscript or parts thereof without authority. This would correct two grave abuses, one, the stealing of an author's ideas and dialogue by a manager to whom the play might be submitted, and the second, the stealing of manuscripts after a play is produced. One bureau openly advertises and continually sells for a few dollars manuscripts of produced plays, and the sale of such manuscripts enables infringers to deprive authors of great sums in royalties. The adoption of such a section as this will, of course, be sharply contested, but there is absolutely nothing inequitable in it for any person not intending fraud. It might also be well to deny the privilege of copyright to authors who allow their plays to be publicly performed without first securing a copyright. I trust that none of these suggestions will be taken as a criticism of the proposed law, which will confer great benefits upon and will greatly stimulate native art, but I am confident that the importance of some of the proposed additions and the convenience of others will at once be seen. Allow me to thank you for your courtesy in sending us the copy of the proposed law, and to request the favor of any further matter which the copyright office may have to issue upon the subject. Yours, respectfully, THE PLAYWRIGHTS LEAGUE CLUB, By EDWIN HOPKINS, _President_. BRIESEN & KNAUTH, COUNSELORS AT LAW, _New York, June 8, 1906_. REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, _Library of Congress, Washington, D.C._ SIR: On behalf of a number of clients, who are interested in the new copyright bill, we respectfully beg to suggest that in order fully to carry out the broad purpose of the framers of the bill, the bill should be amended substantially as shown in the accompanying draft amendment. The bill as it now stands does not provide for the registration, by means of one entry, of a great many works of literature or art which from necessity are printed on detached sheets.