Playright and Copyright in All Countries: Showing how to Protect a Play Or a Book Throughout the WorldMacmillan, 1906 - 275 pages |
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Act of Paris action Additional Act amended apply assignment Australia Austria-Hungary authorised Berne Convention book or play book or printed Britain British Dominions British possession certified chromo colony commencement complied copy copyright and playright Copyright Office Copyright Union Court Declaration of Paris defendant delivered deposit dramatic or musical dramatic piece dramatised enacted English law engraving entitled entry exclusive right foreign country formalities Hall Ibid importation infringement injunction International Copyright Act lecturing right Librarian of Congress Library licence Lord Chamberlain Monaco musical composition Newfoundland Norway notice of copyright novel Order in Council owner patent theatres penalty performing right period person photograph pirated artistic pirated books plaintiff playright and copyright prescribed printed form printed play produced prohibited protection publication registered at Stationers Registrar representing Revised Statutes right of translation sole liberty stage-plays Tasmania theatre thereof tion title-page treaty United Kingdom Vict
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Page 214 - 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 208 - 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 218 - Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States...
Page 207 - ... assigns of any such person shall, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, have the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vending the same...
Page 222 - Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or a model or design, for a work of the fine arts...
Page 208 - ... manufacture shall be entered under the copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office. 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, except that there shall be paid for recording the title of any print or label, not a trade-mark, six dollars, which shall cover the expense of furnishing a copy of the record, under the seal...
Page 224 - SEC. 4956. N'o person shall be entitled to a copyright unless he shall, on or before the day of publication in this or any foreign country, deliver at the office of the Librarian of Congress...
Page 266 - The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which, by this Act, are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act...
Page 208 - 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. And the Commissioner of Patents is...
Page 212 - 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.