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
The practice of the Copyright Office is to make for each copyrighted
book an index card, in conformity with the printed catalogue card of the
Library of Congress, and to utilize the linotype slugs set for this
purpose, with some modification, as the basis for the "Catalogue of
copyright entries" for books. The catalogue for books proper, Part I,
Group 1, is printed weekly with an annual index, which, together with
Part I, Group 2, issued monthly with more condensed entries,--containing
the titles for all other material registered under the legal designation
"book," not found in Group 1,_ i. e._, local directories and other
annuals, pamphlets, leaflets and literary contributions to periodicals,
as also dramatic compositions, lectures and maps, including also the
preliminary reports of court decisions,--may be subscribed for at a
price of $1 per year. Part II, appearing monthly, covers periodicals,
with an annual index, at fifty cents per year. Part III, appearing
monthly, covers music, with an annual index, at $1 per year. Part IV,
appearing monthly, covers works of art, reproductions of a work of art,
drawings or plastic works of a scientific character, photographs and
prints and pictorial illustrations, with an annual index, at fifty cents
per year. The subscription price for the entire catalogue is $3 per
year. Subscriptions should be sent direct to the Superintendent of
Documents, Washington, D. C., with money orders or drafts in his name
(stamps and uncertified checks not accepted), and should not be sent to
the Librarian of Congress or to the Copyright Office.
{Sidenote: Entry cards}
The Library of Congress prints for all such books as are selected from
the copyright deposits for use in the Library, on the decision of the
Commission appointed by the Librarian, a catalogue card which forms part
of the library card catalogue system, and which can be had by public
libraries and by private purchasers at the price of two cents a card.
This card is used for the catalogues of the Library of Congress and for
the catalogues of depository libraries throughout the country, but is
not furnished in exchange by the Smithsonian Institution to foreign
institutions. The catalogue cards for "books" in Group 2, representing
considerably more than twice as many registrations as Group I, as well
as the index cards for all articles comprised in the remaining classes
of copyright deposits, are prepared in the Copyright Office, and are not
furnished to other libraries or to the public.
{Sidenote: Text provisions}
The provisions as to the Copyright Office, its administration, methods
and practice, are set forth in the American code of 1909 in much detail,
as follows:
{Sidenote: Copyright records}
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