Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Bingham, McCall (Tenn.), Hemenway, Dockery, and Robertson, in Charge of Legislature, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill for 1897

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - 135 pages
 

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Page 121 - Facts were committed, and the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence...
Page 119 - Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States...
Page 118 - An assignment, grant or conveyance shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice, unless it is recorded in the Patent Office within three months from the date thereof or prior to such subsequent purchase or mortgage.
Page 120 - ... without the consent of the proprietor of the copyright first obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more witnesses, engrave, etch, work, copy, print, publish, dramatize, translate, or import, cither in whole or in part, or by varying the main design, with intent to evade the law...
Page 120 - Every person who shall insert or impress such notice, or words of the same purport, in or upon any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving, or photograph, or other article, for which he has not obtained a copyright, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, recoverable one-half for the person who shall sue for such penalty, and one-half to the use of the United States.
Page 121 - And the commissioner of patents is hereby charged with the supervision and control of the entry or registry of such prints or labels, in conformity with the regulations provided by law as to copyright of prints...
Page 119 - ... following words, to wit: (here insert the title or description,) the right whereof he claims as author, (originator, or proprietor, as the case may be,) in conformity with the laws of the United States respecting copyrights. CD, Librarian of Congress.
Page 121 - That for the purpose of this act each volume of a book in two or more volumes, when such volumes are published separately and the first one shall not have been issued before this act shall take effect, and each number of a periodical shall be considered an independent publication, subject to the form of copyrighting as above.
Page 118 - States or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts...
Page 120 - Copyright," together with the year the copyright was entered, and the name of the party by whom it was taken out thus—" Copyright, 18—, by AB

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