...agreement for reciprocity 'n copyright, who is "the author, inventor, designer or proprietor of ¡tn у book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors, administrators, or assigne of any such person" may secure for 28 year» the sole liberty...

...Revised Statute«, to read : ••he<-. 4, 1)52. 'ihe author, Inventor, designer or proprietor ot any book, map. chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negjithe tbervof, or of a painting, diawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or deslgr.e Intended...

...citizens, or which become parties to an international agreement for reciprocity 'n copyright, who is "the author, Inventor, designer or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or muslcul composition, engraving, cut, print or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing,...

...statute (section 4952 as amended 1891, US Compiled Statutes, vol. 3, p. 3460,) which is as follows: The author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any book,...or designs Intended to be perfected as works of the flue arts, and the executors, administrators or assigns of any such person shall, upon complying with...

...ANT citizen of the United States, or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, or designer of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph, and his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have the sole liberty of printing, reprinting,...

...First is defined the person and subjects entitled to the protection of copyright: " Sec. 4952. The author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any book,...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts " — Now comes the discrimination. Note carefully the deliberate omission of the words "engraving,...

...the Revised Statutes he, ami the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "Sice. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book,...photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, cliromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to he perfected as works of the fine arts,...

...representation," are not found. The act provides (section 86) that any citizen, &c. who shall be the author, inventor, designer or proprietor .... of any...book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition .... shall, upon complying with the provisions of this act, have the sole liberty of printing .......

...musical composi- <*'•. ^'w' v. u' tion, engraving, cut, print, or photograph ori2*"aJ;'ifCi^°^; negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing,^ chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or « MO'W'.'MO. . . • , -i -I , i /• , i ^ i- Hopk. Ch.. 35i. designs intended to be perfected as...

...be it further enacted, That any citizen of the United States, or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book,...chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, eut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary,...