COPYRIGHT 



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COPYRIGHT 



(d) Dramatic or dramatic-musical composi- 

 tions. 



(e) Musical compositions. 



(f) Maps. 



(g) Works of art ; models or designs for works 

 of art. 



(h) Reproductions of a work" of art. 

 (i) Drawings or plastic works of a scientific 

 or technical character, 

 (j) Photographs. 



(k) Prints and pictorial illustrations. 

 (1) Motion picture photo plays, 

 (m) Motion pictures other than photo plays. 



The law extends to applicants who comply 

 with its provisions the right to print, reprint, 

 publish, copy and sell the copyrighted work; 

 to translate it or make any other version of 

 it, if it is a literary work; to dramatize it, if 

 it is a non-dramatic work ; if a drama, to con- 

 vert it into a novel; if a musical work, to 

 arrange or adapt it. A model or design for 

 a work of art may be copyrighted and com- 

 pleted later; copyrighted sermons, lectures or 

 addresses may be delivered or their delivery 

 be authorized. A dramatic work or any ver- 

 sion of it may be publicly performed. In the 

 case of encyclopedias, reviews, magazines and 

 other periodicals the copyright is vested in the 

 proprietors, as if they were the authors. The 

 publishing of a book includes the setting of 

 the type, the making of the plates, the print- 

 ing and the binding, all of which must be done 

 in the United States. If it be not wholly an 

 American product protection is afforded under 

 the laws governing international copyright (see 

 page 1576). 



To obtain a copyright for a work which is 

 to be published, send to the Register of Copy- 

 rights, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., 

 for an application blank. Fill this out and 

 return it with a postal money order or bank 

 draft for $1.00, and at the same time send 

 two copies of the publication which is to bear 

 the copyright imprint, which should appear 

 on the title page or the page following. The 

 prescribed form of the imprint is "Copyright 

 19 by (author's or publisher's name)." The 

 two copies of the copyrighted work which are 

 sent to the Register are deposited in the Li- 

 brary of Congress. There are special rules 

 governing the copyrighting of works not in- 

 tended to be sold. This and all other infor- 

 mation may be obtained by writing to the 

 Register of Copyrights at Washington. 



The copyright secured by the above law 

 runs for a period of twenty-eight years; one 

 year before the expiration of the original copy- 

 right the author, or in case of his death, his 



heirs, may obtain a renewal for a period of 

 twenty-eight years by making a new applica- 

 tion. The copyright ceases when the term of 

 renewal expires. 



Canada. The administration of the copy- 

 right law in Canada is under the jurisdiction of 

 the Department of Agriculture, and all com- 

 munications are addressed to the Minister of 

 Agriculture, Trade-mark and Copyright Branch, 

 Ottawa. Copyright may be secured by any 

 producer of a literary, scientific or artistic work 

 or composition who is "domiciled in Canada 

 or in any part of the British possessions, or 

 any citizen of any country which has an inter- 

 national copyright treaty with the United 

 Kingdom in which Canada is included." The 

 fee for securing a copyright is $1.00, and with 

 the application must be sent three copies of 

 the production, if the same is a book, map, 

 chart, musical composition, photograph, print, 

 cut or engraving; if copyright is asked for an 

 original painting, drawing, statue or piece of 

 sculpture, a description of the work must ap- 

 pear on the application blank. The copyright 

 period is twenty-eight years, and the renewal 

 period fourteen. The legal form for the copy- 

 right notice, which must appear on the title 

 page, or the page following, of every copy- 

 righted book, is, "Copyright, Canada, 19 , by 

 A.B." 



The conditions for obtaining a Canadian 

 copyright are as follows: The work must, be- 

 fore publication or production elsewhere, or 

 simultaneously with the first publication or 

 production elsewhere, be registered in the office 

 of the Minister; such work must be printed 

 and published or produced in Canada, or be 

 reprinted and republished or reproduced in 

 Canada, within one month after publication or 

 production elsewhere. 



Great Britain. According to the provisions 

 of the Imperial Copyright Bill which went into 

 effect July 1, 1912, the British copyright may 

 apply to any literary, dramatic, musical or 

 artistic work, including the delivery of lec- 

 tures, sermons and addresses, the dramatizing 

 of novels, the converting of dramas into nov- 

 els, and the making of any device for repro- 

 ducing sound or pictures. In the 1912 act 

 architectural drawings were included for the 

 first time. Copyright endures through the 

 lifetime of an author and for fifty years after 

 his death. 



Registration was abolished by the Imperial 

 Copyright Act, the publication of a work be- 

 ing equivalent to the securing of a copyright. 



