Copyright: Its History and Its LawBowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
History
Copyright: Its History and Its Law
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
Copyright -- History; Copyright -- United States -- History
photograph card (J1) or card (J2) respectively.
{Sidenote: Certificate cards}
Similar certificate cards, also of library size, uniformly _white_, are
provided for the several classes of registration, correspondingly
lettered and numbered, except in a few cases where one certificate form
serves for more than one class or subdivision, with the addition of a
general form (Z) to cover anything unprovided for in the other
certificate forms. The certificate bears on one side the uniform
statement of the deposit of two copies or one copy of the article named
herein, and of registration for the first or renewal term, with the name
of the claimant (printed in the case of a few of the publishers making
most applications), and on the other side the specification (following
the wording of the application and the deposit copy) of the title or
description, date of publication, receipt of affidavit (where required),
receipt of copies and entry number by class, together with the seal of
the Copyright Office.
{Sidenote: Fees}
This certificate is sent without charge other than the fees directly
provided for in the law (sec. 61), viz., "for the registration of any
work subject to copyright, deposited under provisions of this Act, one
dollar, which sum is to include a certificate of registration under
seal: _Provided_, That in the case of photographs the fee shall be fifty
cents where a certificate is not demanded. For every additional
certificate of registration made, fifty cents.... For recording the
extension or renewal of copyright provided for in sections twenty-three
and twenty-four of this Act, fifty cents." The law no longer
contemplates record before publication, and it is unnecessary and
undesirable to send application or money previous to sending of deposit
copies. In fact, as the certificate must show date of publication,
publication _cannot_ be anticipated, and money sent in advance, for
individual registrations, is only an embarrassment to the Copyright
Office. The Office will, however, receive advance deposits from
publishers of periodicals or other publishers making frequent
registrations, against which each registration will be charged. Fees
should be sent by money order, or at the remitter's risk, in currency
(but not in stamps). Bank drafts and certified checks are accepted in
practice, though the Register of Copyrights cannot legally receive
checks except at his personal risk and therefore from persons known to
him as in frequent relation with the Copyright Office. Postage must be
prepaid on the signed application, as there is no provision for free
transmission through the mails, such as applies to deposit copies. In
practice the application with remittance and the deposit copies should
be simultaneously sent immediately after publication.
{Sidenote: Deposit}
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