Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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50 cents accessions ad interim affidavit applied appropriations assistant autres Berne bill building and grounds Bureau cards certificate Chief clerk collection Committee on Patents consolidate the Acts copyright entries copyright office copyright proprietor copyright sec country of origin court Decl Division dollars dramatic droits exclusive right EXHIBIT fees filed fiscal foreign Francis Burton Harrison Gardiner Greene Hubbard gift Government included in literary infringement of copyright infringing copies International Copyright July June 30 Letter Librarian Library building Library of Congress literary and artistic lithographs manuscripts maps March mechanical reproduction ment Miscellaneous musical composition newspapers NORTH STACK Notice of copyright November 14 number of entries œuvres papers pays de l'Union periodicals photographs pieces present Convention printed prot Public Library published receipts record register of copyrights renewal of copyright salaries Sir Henry Clinton thereof tion titles Total number transfer translation Treasury volumes Washington
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Page 170 - That every assignment of copyright shall be recorded in the copyright office within three calendar months after its execution in the United States or within six calendar months after its execution without the limits of the United States, in default of which it shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice, whose assignment has been duly recorded.
Page 163 - To pay to the copyright proprietor such damages as the copyright proprietor may have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer shall have made from such infringement, and in proving profits the plaintiff shall be required to prove sales only and the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost which he claims, or in lieu of actual damages and profits such damages as to the court shall appear to be just...
Page 157 - Act or by treaty ; or, when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto.
Page 175 - That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, but nothing in this Act shall affect causes of action for infringement of copyright heretofore committed now pending in courts of the United States, or which may hereafter be instituted; but such causes shall be prosecuted to a conclusion in the manner heretofore provided by law.
Page 166 - During the existence of the American copyright in any book the importation into the United States of any piratical copies thereof or of any copies thereof (although authorized by the author or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section 16 of this title, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States...
Page 153 - ... (a) To print, reprint, publish, copy, and vend the copyrighted work; (b) To translate the copyrighted work into other languages or dialects, or make any other version thereof, if it be a literary work ; to dramatize it if it be a nondramatic work; to convert it into a novel or other nondramatic work if it be a drama...
Page 156 - ... (a) Books, including composite and cyclopedic works, directories, gazetteers, and other compilations. (b) Periodicals, including newspapers. (c) Lectures, sermons, addresses (prepared for oral delivery). (d) Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions. (e) Musical compositions. (f) Maps. (g) Works of art; models or designs for works of art. (h) Reproductions of a work of art.
Page 162 - ... the author of such work, if still living, or the widow, widower, or children of the author, if the author be not living, or if such author, widow, widower, or children, be not living, then the author's executors, or in the absence of a will, his next of kin...
Page 164 - Whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of musical instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, then in case of infringement of such copyright by the unauthorized manufacture, use, or sale of interchangeable parts, such as disks, rolls, bands, or cylinders for use in mechanical music-producing machines adapted to reproduce the copyrighted music, no criminal action shall be brought...
Page 153 - ... to make or procure the making of any transcription or record thereof by or from which, in whole or in part, it may in any manner or by any method be exhibited, delivered, presented, produced, or reproduced ; and to play or perform it in public for profit, and to exhibit, represent, produce, or reproduce it in any manner or by any method whatsoever.