Mr. BURTON. I thank the committee on behalf of the interests I represent. _To the Senate and House Committees on Patents_: Pursuant to the permission granted me at the conclusion of the few minutes' oral hearing with which I was favored before the joint meeting of your committees, I beg to submit herewith a brief and suggestions with respect to the amendments to Senate bill 6330 and House bill 19853, deemed proper and necessary in order to make the act contained in said bills properly protective of the rights and conservative of the interests arising out of and connected with the industries of automatic musical instruments and controlling devices--perforated rolls, talking-machine disks, and phonograph cylinders--for the same. All of which is respectfully submitted. The following facts should be taken into consideration in making any amendment to the copyright law affecting automatic reproducing devices as well as perforated rolls for reproducing music, talking-machine disks, and phonograph cylinders for their respective purposes. 1. To the modern arts relating to automatic music-playing devices and automatic means for reproducing sound, such as talking machines and graphophones, authors and music composers have contributed not a single iota. These arts have been the result of the combined efforts of thousands of scientific, industrious, and artistic inventors. These inventors and the manufacturers cooperating with them by their capital and business skill and enterprise have created these entire arts and to them is due the entire benefit which the public has derived and is deriving from these arts. 2. Musical composers and song writers, notwithstanding their entire lack of participation in the creation and development of these arts, have derived already and are still deriving large pecuniary benefit from them. This is most clearly provable in respect to musical compositions. For any musical composition which has been largely reproduced by automatic players employing perforated roll controllers a largely increased demand immediately arises. The sale of the ordinary staff notation of any such composition experiences a notable stimulus immediately upon the production and sale of the perforated rolls for producing the composition automatically upon musical instruments.