There is one other consideration that I think may possibly be alluded to, and that is that since this term was fixed, partly by the improvements of science and partly by changes in legislation, the actual value of a given term of copyright has diminished. Part of the value of a term of copyright was always that at the expiration of the term the owner of the copyright had the plates and had the books and could compete to great advantage with other people. His right, his privilege in that respect, has been largely taken away by these photographic processes which have come into use. It is not necessary for the man who wishes to publish a book to go to work and have type set for it. He simply takes the existing edition and he photographs it, and he does that with great cheapness. Perhaps there would be an answer to this suggestion that the public should have the advantage that would come from all such cheapening processes; but it seems to me that it could reply that Congress has prohibited the copyright owner from taking advantage of these processes, by saying that he at first must make his book, as long as the copyright exists, in the most expensive way, from plates made by American mechanics and who receive American wages; and consequently that he is handicapped from the beginning. I do not wish to press this argument unduly. It is something, it seems to me, that may be suggested to the committee, whether or not this committee is now to act with the same liberality which Congress showed when the existing term was fixed, if it would not necessarily in some degree extend the term by reason of the facts to which I have referred. There is only one other, so far as I know, important extension of the right of copyright contained in this bill, and on its face it appears to be a matter of inadvertence. It is contained in section 8, where there are provisions A and B, on page 5. The present law of copyright allows a foreigner to take out a copyright if he is a resident in the United States, or if he is a citizen of one of those countries which allow similar privileges to citizens of the United States. Those are the two categories.