Copyright: Its History and Its LawBowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
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Copyright: Its History and Its Law
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
Copyright -- History; Copyright -- United States -- History
"(e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a
musical composition and for the purpose of public performance for
profit; and for the purposes set forth in subsection (a) hereof, to make
any arrangement or setting of it or of the melody of it in any system of
notation or any form of record in which the thought of an author may be
recorded and from which it may be read or reproduced: _Provided_, That
the provisions of this Act, so far as they secure copyright controlling
the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical
work, shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after
this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the works of a foreign
author or composer unless the foreign state or nation of which such
author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty,
convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar
rights: _And_ _provided further, and as a condition of extending the
copyright control to such mechanical reproductions_, That whenever the
owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted or knowingly
acquiesced in the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of
instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, any
other person may make similar use of the copyrighted work upon the
payment to the copyright proprietor of a royalty of two cents on each
such part manufactured, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof; and the
copyright proprietor may require, and if so the manufacturer shall
furnish, a report under oath on the twentieth day of each month on the
number of parts of instruments manufactured during the previous month
serving to reproduce mechanically said musical work, and royalties shall
be due on the parts manufactured during any month upon the twentieth of
the next succeeding month. The payment of the royalty provided for by
this section shall free the articles or devices for which such royalty
has been paid from further contribution to the copyright except in case
of public performance for profit: _And provided further_, That it shall
be the duty of the copyright owner, if he uses the musical composition
himself for the manufacture of parts of instruments serving to reproduce
mechanically the musical work, or licenses others to do so, to file
notice thereof, accompanied by a recording fee, in the copyright office,
and any failure to file such notice shall be a complete defense to any
suit, action, or proceeding for any infringement of such copyright.
{Sidenote: Damages}
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