Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii: and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office — John Shaqi
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Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii: and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office
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drawing, or statue, or, if the said model or design, intended to be
perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, shall not have been
published at the time of filing said application, the person or persons
making said application shall, in order to the validity of the
certificate of copyright, provided in Section 4 of this Act, deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Minister of the Interior, a copy of such
map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving,
photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or of the model or design
intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts,
within one month after the publication thereof in this Kingdom.
SECTION 3. Upon filing such application the applicant shall pay to the
Minister of the Interior a fee of five dollars.
SECTION 4. Upon the filing of such application so accompanied, and the
payment of such fee, the Minister of the Interior shall cause to be
issued to the applicant a Certificate of Copyright, under the seal of
the Department of the Interior, granting to him and to his heirs,
executors, administrators and assigns the exclusive right to print,
re-print, publish, use and vend the said map, book, chart, musical
composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or
statue, or the said model or design intended to be perfected and
completed as a work of the fine arts, throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom,
for the term of twenty years from the date thereof.
SECTION 5. No person shall maintain an action for the infringement of
his copyright, unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in each
copy of his map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut,
engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or in his model or
design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine
arts, on the title page, or on the page immediately following it, if it
be a book, or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut,
engraving, photograph, painting, drawing or statue, or model or design
intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by
inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on
which the same shall be mounted, the words "_Hawaiian Copyright_," and
the name of the person to whom the Certificate of Copyright was issued,
and its date, thus: "_Hawaiian Copyright by A. B., June 10, 1888._"
SECTION 6. In the construction of this Act the words "print," "cut," and
"engraving," shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations, or works
connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be
used for any other articles of manufacture shall be certified under the
Copyright Law.
SECTION 7. An Act entitled "An Act to Encourage Learning in this Kingdom
by Securing the Copies of Charts, Maps and Books to the Authors and
Proprietors of such Copies," approved the thirty-first day of December,
1864, and all other laws, and parts of laws, in conflict with the
provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.
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