Copyright Enactments, 1783-1900: Comprising the Copyright Resolution of the Colonial Congress, 1783 ; the Copyright Laws of the Original States, 1783-1786 ; the Constitutional Provision Concerning Copyright Legislation, and the Public and Private Copyright Laws Enacted by Congress from 1790 to 1900 ; Together with the Presidential Proclamations Regarding International CopyrightU.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 83 pages |
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act to amend America in Congress anno Domini author or authors author or proprietor authority aforesaid benefit of copyright book or books book or pamphlet chromo circuit courts clerk Congress assembled consent copies thereof copyright book copyright on substantially deposit district doctor of medicine edition engraving exclusive right expose to sale February 18 foreign further enacted George Minot GROVER CLEVELAND heirs and assigns House of Representatives imported John Rowlett liberty of printing Librarian of Congress map or chart model or design moiety thereof musical composition obtained in writing offenders shall forfeit permits to citizens person or persons photograph print or prints print or publish PROCLAMATION proprietor or proprietors proprietor thereof recording the title relating to copyrights Revised Statutes Richard Peters seal SECOND SESSION section 13 section forty-nine hundred Senate and House statuary Statutes at Large term of fourteen thousand eight hundred United vending WILLIAM MCKINLEY
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Page 67 - ... when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; 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 of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement...
Page 75 - States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this 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 56 - ... to be published in one or more newspapers printed in the United States for the space of four weeks.
Page 52 - ... on the title-page or the page immediately following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected...
Page 56 - Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States...
Page 54 - That in the construction of this act, the words " Engraving," " cut," and "print" 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 entered under the copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office.
Page 61 - ... one dollar for every sheet of the same found in his possession, either printing, printed, copied, published, imported or exposed for sale; and in case of a painting, statue, or statuary, he shall forfeit ten dollars for every copy of the same in his possession, or by him sold or exposed for sale ; one-half thereof to the proprietor and the other half to the use of the United States.
Page 59 - ... shall forfeit to the proprietor all the plates on which the same shall be copied, and every sheet thereof, either copied or printed, and shall further forfeit one dollar for every sheet of the same found in his possession, either printing, printed, copied, published, imported or exposed for sale...
Page 45 - ... upon recording the title of the work or description of the article so secured a second time, and complying with all other regulations in regard to original copyrights, within six months before the expiration of the first term.
Page 44 - 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, and the executors, administrators, or assigns of any such person shall, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter...