The Copyright of a Map or Chart 439 



there is a space on the third page for attaching the title of the map. For this 

 purpose the corner of the map which contains the title and the usual copyright 

 notice as it will appear when issued to the public should be cut off and attached 

 to the blank by pasting. This should all be attended to before the day of publi- 

 cation. If possible it is well to send the application, the fee, and the two com- 

 plete copies required to be deposited, all in one package, to the Register of 

 Copyrights. The results will be quicker and surer. 



As to the matter of fees : For each title the fee is 50 cents, provided the 

 author is a citizen of the United States, but if he be a citizen of a foreign country 

 with which this country has copyright relations the fee is $1. If a certificate is 

 desired (which shows how the entry will appear on the records) an additional fee 

 of 50 cents will be necessary. Maps published in two sizes, that is where the 

 scales of the two differ, require two separate entries and fees for copyright. A 

 postal money order is the best form for remitting fees, and it should be made pay- 

 able to the Register of Copyrights. 



If the article to be copyrighted is a map, it should not be alluded to by any 



other name. The statement should be plainly made 

 I am near to the place where ...... Ty , ,, . , -, ■ , j « * 



ti,^,- „i ™,i.i 4 -c tv • that it is a map. It should not be designated a chart, 

 they should meet, if Pisanio ° 



have mapped it trulv. Lym- pl at > pl°t, or atlas ; an atlas is a book of maps. The 



beline. applicant must bear in mind the fact that the law con- 



templates a map as' being a delineation of some portion 

 of the earth's surface. Not everything popularly so called is a chart in the mean- 

 ing of the law. 



If one wishes to protect a chart much care should be exercised, owing to the 



different meanings given to that term by the public, 



Arnold " ^ le dictionaries, and the law. The application should 



read: "A map or chart." The law regards a 

 " chart " as a special kind of map, as a delineation of some portion of the heavens 

 or of the waters of the earth, more plainly as a map of stars or a map of waters. 

 Neither is it a plan or drawing of other objects or a card or sheet showing tabu- 

 lated information. The public is prone to characterize a variety of things as 

 charts, and when they get before the copyright officials meet with disappointment 

 in many instances. As early as 1828 a decision was handed down stating that a 

 copyright cannot subsist in a chart as a general subject (Blunt vs. Patten, Fed. 

 Cas. 1580 ; 2 Paine, 397). If an applicant have a drawing, pattern or chart, as 

 it is commonly called, to be used on a cutting machine and with directions for its 

 use, he cannot obtain a copyright as a " chart," but would have to apply for pro- 

 tection as a " book." In the case of Drury vs. Ewing (Fed. Cas. 4095 ; 1 Bond, 

 540) the court decided that a chart on a single sheet, containing diagrams repre- 

 senting a system of taking measures for and cutting women's dresses, with in- 

 structions for its use, is a "book," within the copyright law. Another has a 

 music staff and scale which he terms a " musical chart." The law knows of no 

 such " chart," and the only possible chance for the applicant might be in apply- 



