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
"(Sec. 47.) That all records and other things relating to copyrights
required by law to be preserved shall be kept and preserved in the
copyright office, Library of Congress, District of Columbia, and shall be
under the control of the register of copyrights, who shall, under the
direction and supervision of the Librarian of Congress, perform all the
duties relating to the registration of copyrights.
{Sidenote: Register of copyrights and assistant register}
"(Sec. 48.) That there shall be appointed by the Librarian of Congress a
register of copyrights, at a salary of four thousand dollars per annum,
and one assistant register of copyrights, at a salary of three thousand
dollars per annum, who shall have authority during the absence of the
register of copyrights to attach the copyright office seal to all papers
issued from the said office and to sign such certificates and other papers
as may be necessary. There shall also be appointed by the Librarian such
subordinate assistants to the register as may from time to time be
authorized by law.
{Sidenote: Deposit and report of fees}
"(Sec. 49.) That the register of copyrights shall make daily deposits in
some bank in the District of Columbia, designated for this purpose by the
Secretary of the Treasury as a national depository, of all moneys received
to be applied as copyright fees, and shall make weekly deposits with the
Secretary of the Treasury, in such manner as the latter shall direct, of
all copyright fees actually applied under the provisions of this Act, and
annual deposits of sums received which it has not been possible to apply
as copyright fees or to return to the remitters, and shall also make
monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Librarian of
Congress of the applied copyright fees for each calendar month, together
with a statement of all remittances received, trust funds on hand, moneys
refunded, and unapplied balances.
{Sidenote: Bond}
"(Sec. 50.) That the register of copyrights shall give bond to the United
States in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in form to be approved by
the Solicitor of the Treasury and with sureties satisfactory to the
Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful discharge of his duties.
{Sidenote: Annual report}
"(Sec. 51.) That the register of copyrights shall make an annual report to
the Librarian of Congress, to be printed in the annual report on the
Library of Congress, of all copyright business for the previous fiscal
year, including the number and kind of works which have been deposited in
the copyright office during the fiscal year, under the provisions of this
Act.
{Sidenote: Seal}
"(Sec. 52.) That the seal provided under the Act of July eighth, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and at present used in the copyright office, shall
continue to be the seal thereof, and by it all papers issued from the
copyright office requiring authentication shall be authenticated.
{Sidenote: Rules}
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