II. An Act supplementary to an act, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.

Stat.

claiming to

tors of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- April 29, bled, That every person who shall, from and after the 1802. first day of January next, claim to be the author or pro[Repealed.] prietor of any maps, charts, book or books, and shall Additional thereafter seek to obtain a copyright of the same agreea- prescribed requisites ble to the rules prescribed by law, before he shall be en- for persons titled to the benefit of the act, entituled "An act for the be authors encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of or propriemaps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors maps, of such copies, during the time therein mentioned," he books. shall, in addition to the requisites enjoined in the third 1790, c. 15. and fourth sections of said act, if a book or books, give information by causing the copy of the record, which, by said act he is required to publish in one or more of the newspapers, to be inserted at full length in the title-page or in the page immediately following the title of every such book or books; and if a map or chart, shall cause the following words to be impressed on the face thereof, viz: "Entered according to act of Congress, the

day of

18

[here insert the date when the same was deposited in the office] by A. B. of the state of [here insert the author's or proprietor's name and the state in which he resides.]

charts, or

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after Same rules prescribed the first day of January next, every person being a citi- with rezen of the United States, or resident within the same, spect to who shall invent and design, engrave, etch or work, or who shall invent, and design, engrave, etch, or work historical or other prints.

h*

persons

Stat.

1802.

from his own works and inventions, shall cause to be deApril 29, signed and engraved, etched or worked, any historical or other print or prints, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, re-printing, publishing and vending such print or prints, for the term of fourteen years from the recording the title thereof in the clerk's office, as prescribed by law for maps, charts, book or books: Provided, he shall perform all the requisites in relation to such print or prints, as are directed in relation to maps, charts, book or books, in the third and fourth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, and shall moreover cause the same entry to be duly engraved on such plate, with the name of the proprietor, and printed on every such print or prints as is herein before required to be made on maps or charts.

selling a print or prints, without the

or owners,

in writing. C. C. R.

4 Wash.

48.

Penalties for engraving, etchSEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any printselling or er or other person whatsoever, from and after the said first working, or copying and day of January next, within the time limited by this act, shall engrave, etch or work, as aforesaid, or in any other manner copy or sell, or cause to be engraved, etched, consent of copied or sold, in the whole or in part, by varying, adthe owner ding to, or diminishing from the main design, or shall print, re-print, or import for sale, or cause to be printed, reprinted, or imported for sale, any such print or prints, or any parts thereof, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof, first had and obtained, in writing, signed by him or them respectively, in the presence of two or more eredible witnesses; or knowing the same to be so printed or re-printed, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors, shall publish, sell, or expose to sale or otherwise, or in any other manner dispose of any such print or prints, without such consent first had and obtained, as aforesaid, then such offender or offenders shall forfeit the plate or plates on which such print or prints are or shall be copied, and all and every sheet or sheets (being part of or whereon such print or prints are or shall be copied or printed) to the proprietor or proprietors of such original print or prints, who shall forthwith destroy the same; and further, that every such

any court

1802.

ure to any

shall sue for the

same.

Penalties

in the way

offender or offenders shall forfeit one dollar for every print Stat. which shall be found in his, her, or their custody; either April 29, printed, published, or exposed to sale, or otherwise disposed of, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this A moiety of act, the one moiety thereof to any person who shall sue the forfeitfor the same, and the other moiety thereof to and for the one who use of the United States, to be recovered in having competent jurisdiction thereof. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person for publishor persons from and after the passing of this act, shall ing maps, charts, print or publish any map, chart, book or books, print or books or prints, who have not legally acquired the copyright of prints, but such map, chart, book or books, print or prints, and shall, prescribed contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, insert by law. therein or impress thereon that the same has been entered according to act of Congress, or words purporting the same, or purporting that the copyright thereof has been acquired; every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, one moiety thereof to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety thereof to and for the use of the United States, to be recovered by action of debt in any court of record in the United States, having cognizance thereof. Limitation Provided always, that in every case for forfeitures herein of action in before given, the action be commenced within two years feiture. from the time the cause of action may have arisen.

Approved, April 29, 1802.

cases of for

Stat.

zance, in
equity and
at law, in

controver-
sies re-
specting
the right to

III. An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States to cases arising under the law relating to patents.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaFeb. 15, tives of the United States of America, in Congress assem1819. bled, That the circuit courts of the United States shall The circuit have original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of courts to all actions, suits, controversies, and cases arising under have original cogni- any law of the United States, granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions, and discoveries and upon any bill in equity, filed by any party aggrieved in any such cases, shall have authority to grant injunctions, according inventions to the course and principles of courts of equity, to prevent the violation of the rights of any authors or inventors, secured to them by any laws of the United States, on such terms and conditions as the said courts may Act of May deem fit and reasonable: Provided, however, That from all judgments and decrees of any circuit courts, rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, as the case may require, shall lie to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same circumstances, as is now provided by law in other judgments and decrees of such circuit courts.

and writ

ings.

Act of Feb.

21, 1793, c. 11.

31, 1790,

c. 15.

Proviso.

Approved, February 15, 1819.

An Act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights.

Stat. Feb. 3, 1831.

and their

&c. to have

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, any person or persons, being a citizen or citizens of the Authors of United States, or resident therein, who shall be the au- books, &c. thor or authors of any book or books, map, chart, or mu- executors, sical composition, which may be now made or composed, sole right and not printed and published, or shall hereafter be made for twentyeight years. or composed, or who shall invent, design, etch, engrave, work, or cause to be engraved, etched, or worked from his own design, any print or engraving, and the executors, administrators, or legal assigns of such person or persons, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, and vending such book or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, in whole or in part, for the term of twenty-eight years from the time of recording the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter directed.

fourteen

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if, at the expira- Renewal of tion of the aforesaid term of years, such author, inventor, privilege for designer, engraver, or any of them, where the work had years. been originally composed and made by more than one person, be still living, and a citizen or citizens of the United States, or resident therein, or being dead, shall have left a widow, or child, or children, either or all then living, the same exclusive right shall be continued to such author, designer, or engraver, or, if dead, then to such widow and child, or children, for the further term of fourteen years: Provided, That the title of the work so Conditions. secured shall be a second time recorded, and all such other regulations as are herein required in regard to original copyrights, be complied with in respect to such renewed copyright, and that within six months before the expiration of the first term.