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
That of a printed book or periodical the text of the copies
deposited under section 11 above shall be printed from type set
within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the
aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made from
type set within the limits of the United States, or if the text be
produced by lithographic process, then by a process wholly
performed within the limits of the United States.
The trouble there is that the author of that section supposed that the
lithographic process was the only other process of producing a book
besides printing it from type or a streotyped plate. Now, the
lithographic process is not the only process. There are modern
processes of photomechanical printing that have nothing at all to do
with lithography, that are much cheaper than lithography, and that do
all that lithography does. As an illustration, those beautiful
illustrated supplements that come out every week with the New York
Tribune on Sunday are supposed by some gentlemen to be lithographs.
They are not. They are printed on aluminum cylinders at great speed
and with great cheapness, and they are very much cheaper and very much
better than can be done by the old art of lithography.
Mr. CURRIER. Could not that be said to be a plate within the meaning
of this act?
Mr. WALKER. No; because a stereotype plate is meant. But that is very
easily corrected. I would suggest that for the words "by lithographic
process" be substituted "any other process." Then that covers
lithography and every other possible process. Then, on the 21st line
of that page, I would suggest the substitution of "illustrations" for
"lithographs," because illustrations may be made otherwise than by
lithography.
The gentleman who delivered himself upon that particular subject upon
behalf of the American mechanic was uninformed about the matter, and
complained that a large number of printed illustrations were being
imported into this country that would be kept out under the
lithographic clause if you put the lithographic clause in strong
enough. Now, he is entirely mistaken about that, because the very
things that are being imported and that he complains of are not made
by lithography at all, but by another process.
Section 15 contains a provision as to what shall happen if the
copyrighter does not deposit his copies in the office of the Librarian
of Congress on time; and there is a proviso in lines 19, 20, and 21
which reads:
That in such case no action shall be brought for infringement of
the copyright until such requirements have been fully complied
with.
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