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
In 1900 the act for the government of the territory of Hawaii repealed
the Hawaiian copyright act of 1888 and extended United States copyright
to Hawaii. In the same year the act providing temporary government for
Porto Rico extended the copyright laws to that island. In 1904 the
Attorney General rendered an opinion that Philippine authors were
entitled to United States copyright but that the book must be
manufactured within the United States. Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, as well as Alaska, were later included by name in
the jurisdiction of the code of 1909. American copyright was extended to
the Canal Zone by War Department order in 1907.
{Sidenote: The American code of 1909}
Finally, in 1909, there was passed the new copyright code repealing all
previous legislation and providing comprehensively for the whole subject
of copyright, literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, or other. Under
this code copyright is effected by publication with the statutory notice
of copyright and completed by registration of two deposit copies sent to
the Copyright Office promptly after publication. The manufacturing
clause is continued and extended to require printing and binding as well
as type-setting within the United States. The musical author is given
control over mechanical reproductions though under provision for
compulsory license in case he permits any such reproduction. The
copyright term is for twenty-eight years with a like renewal term,
making fifty-six years. Rights of performance are included under
copyright, and unpublished works are specifically protected by special
registration. These are the salient features of the code which is stated
and discussed in detail in succeeding chapters.
{Sidenote: State protection of playright}
In line with the dramatic act of 1897, the dramatic authors between 1895
and 1905 procured state legislation in the States of New Hampshire, New
York, Louisiana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, California, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Michigan, differing
somewhat in form, to give effect to the federal copyright laws in
respect to dramatic performance or to apply the principles of common law
through the punishment of dramatic companies disregarding performing
rights.
{Sidenote: Citations}
{Sidenote: Trade-Mark act}
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