such notice of copyright or words of the same purport, which is not 1 copyrighted in this country, 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; and the importation into the United States of any book, chromo, lithograph, 5 or photograph, or other article bearing such notice of copyright, when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States, is prohibited; and the circuit courts of the United States sitting in equity are hereby authorized to enjoin the issuing, publishing, or selling of any article marked or imported in violation of the United States copy- 10 right laws, at the suit of any person complaining of such violation: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any importation of or sale of such goods or articles brought into the United States prior to the passage hereof."

SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the fore- 15 going provision be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1897.

In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1895, to March, 1897." Vol. 29, 8vo. Washington, 1897, pp. 694–695.

Also in "Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States. Ed. by 20 William A. Richardson." Vol. 2, 8vo. Washington, 1895-1900, p. 613.

FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, CHAPTER 192.—[COPYRIGHT OFFICE.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 25 and one, and for other purposes.

1900, April 17.

COPYRIGHT OFFICE, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress: Register of copyrights, three thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two 30 clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; nine clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; seven clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; Arrears, 35 special service: Three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one porter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand and eighty dollars.

Approved, April 17, 1900.

In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1899, to March, 1901." Vol. 31, 8vo. Washington, 1901, p. 95.

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FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to afford protection to exhibitors of foreign literary, artistic, or musical works at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. a

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 1904, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, January 7. That the author of any book, map, chart, dramatic composition, musical composition, engraving, cut, print, chromo, lithograph, or photograph published abroad prior to November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, but not registered for copyright protection 10 in the United States copyright office, or the heirs and assigns of such author, shall have in the case of any such book, map, chart, dramatic composition, musical composition, engraving, cut, print, chromo, lithograph, or photograph intended for exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, 15 copying, and vending the same within the limits of the United States for the term herein provided for upon complying with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. That one copy of such book, map, chart, dramatic composition, musical composition, engraving, cut, print, chromo, lithograph, 20 or photograph to be exhibited as herein provided shall be delivered at the copyright office, Library of Congress, at Washington, District of Columbia, with a statement duly subscribed to in writing that the book or other article is intended for such exhibition and that the copyright protection herein provided for is desired by the copyright proprietor, 25 whose full name and legal residence is to be stated in the application.

SEC. 3. That the register of copyrights shall record the title of each volume of any such book or other article herein provided for, or if the article lacks a title, shall record a brief description of it sufficient to identify it, in a special series of record books to be designated the 30"Interim copyright record books,” and shall furnish to the copyright claimant a copy of record under seal of such recorded title or description, and the said title or description is to be included in the Catalogue of Title Entries provided for in section four of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

35 SEC. 4. That a fee of one dollar and fifty cents shall be paid to the register of copyrights for each title or description to be recorded and a certified copy of the record of the same, and in the case of a work in more than one volume the same amount, one dollar and fifty cents, shall be paid for each volume, and the register of copyrights shall 40 deposit all such fees paid in the Treasury of the United States, and report and account for the same in accordance with the provisions in

a For importation under this act, see note 8, page 142.

relation to copyright fees of the appropriation act approved February 1 nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

SEC. 5. That the copyright protection herein provided for shall be for the term of two years from the date of the receipt of the book or other article in the copyright office.

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SEC. 6. That if at any time during the term of the copyright protection herein provided for, two copies of the original text of any such book, or of a translation of it in the English language, printed from type set within the limits of the United States or from plates made therefrom, or two copies of any such photograph, chromo, or lithograph 10 printed from negatives or drawings on stone made within the limits of the United States or from transfers made therefrom, are deposited in the copyright office, Library of Congress, at Washington, District of Columbia, such deposit shall be held to extend the term of copyright protection to such book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph for the 15 full terms provided for in title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, computed from the date of the receipt of the book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph and the registration of the title or description as herein provided for.

SEC. 7. That in the case of an original work of the fine arts (a paint- 20 ing, drawing, statue, statuary, and a model or design intended to be perfected as a work of the fine arts) which has been produced without the limits of the United States prior to the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and four, and is intended for exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the author of such work of art, or his heirs 25 and assigns, shall be granted copyright protection therefor during a period of two years from the date of filing in the copyright office, Library of Congress, at Washington, District of Columbia, a description of the said work of art and a photograph of it, and upon paying to the register of copyrights one dollar and fifty cents for the regis-30 tration of such description, and a copy of record under seal of such recorded description.

SEC. 8. That, except in so far as this Act authorizes and provides for temporary copyright protection during the period and for the purposes herein provided for, it shall not be construed or held to in 35 any manner affect or repeal any of the provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to copyrights and the Acts amendatory thereof. That no registration under this Act shall be made after the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and four.

Approved, January 7, 1904.

In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from November, 1903, to March, 1905." Vol. 33, part 1, 8vo. Washington, 1905, pp. 4-5.

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FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, CHAPTER 1432.

AN ACT to amend section forty-nine hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes.

1905, March 3.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, 10 print, or photograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and 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, have the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publish15 ing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vending the same; and, in the case of a dramatic composition, of publicly performing or representing it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others. And authors or their assigns shall have exclusive right to dramatize or translate any of their works for which copyright shall have been 20 obtained under the laws of the United States.

"Whenever the author or proprietor of a book in a foreign language, which shall be published in a foreign country before the day of publication in this country, or his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall deposit one complete copy of the same, including all maps and other illus25 trations, in the Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, within thirty days after the first publication of such book in a foreign country, and shall insert in such copy, and in all copies of such book sold or distributed in the United States, on the title page or the page immediately following, a notice of the reservation of copyright in the 30 name of the proprietor, together with the true date of first publication of such book, in the following words: 'Published nineteen hundred and Privilege of copyright in the United States reserved , nineteen hundred and five, by

under the Act approved

and shall, within twelve months after the first publication of such 35 book in a foreign country, file the title of such book and deposit two copies of it in the original language or, at his option, of a translation of it in the English language, printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or from plates made therefrom, containing a notice of copyright, as provided by the copyright laws now in force, 40 he and they shall have during the term of twenty-eight years from the date of recording the title of the book or of the English translation of it, as provided for above, the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, vending, translating and dramatizing the said book: Provided, That this Act shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign State 45 or nation when such foreign State or nation permits to citizens of the

United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the 1 same basis as to its own citizens."

Approved, March 3, 1905.

In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from November, 1903, to March, 1905." Vol. 33, part 1, 8vo. Washington, 1905, pp. 1000-1001. 5

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PRIVATE ACTS RELATING TO COPYRIGHT PASSED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1828-1898.

TWENTIETH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, CHAPTER 145.

1828, May 24.

AN ACT to continue a copy-right to John Rowlett.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a copy-right be continued and granted, and the same is hereby continued and granted to John Rowlett, for a book, entitled "Rowlett's Tables of Discount or Interest," for the term of fourteen 15 years from the passage of this act, with all the rights and privileges, and the same remedies against any person who shall interfere with his right, as are provided by existing laws in relation to copyrights: Provided, That it shall be lawful for any person or persons who may heretofore have published copies of said book, or of parts 20 thereof, to sell such as may have been heretofore published: And provided further, That the said John Rowlett, shall, within two months of the passage of this act, deposit in the office of the district clerk of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, a copy of the title of his book, with the additions as now printed, to be recorded, and shall cause a 25 copy of the said record to be advertised, once a week, for four weeks in succession, in one or more newspapers printed in the United States, and to be inserted on the back of the title-page of the books now printed, and shall, within six months, deposit a copy of said book in the office of the Secretary of State. Approved, May 24, 1828.

In "The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. Edited by Richard Peters." Vol. 6, 8vo. Boston, 1846, pp. 389–390.

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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to amend "An Act to continue a copyright of [sic] John Rowlett." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives February 11. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any thing contained in the last proviso of the "Act to continue a copyright to John Rowlett," approved 40 the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, only such of the printed books, entitled Rowlett's Tables