44° The National Geographic Magazine 



ing as a "book." Then there is "A Chart of the Greater United States— An 

 Up-to-Date Historical, Political and Statistical Record, with Maps, Etc." That 

 would be a " book " pure and simple and should be applied for as such. An- 

 other phase of the meaning of the word ' ' chart ' ' will be seen in the decision of 

 the "court in the case of Taylor vs. Gilman (24 Fed., 632), in which it was -held 

 that the word "chart" as used in the copyright law does not include sheets of 

 paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information, but such articles 

 might be protected as books. 



The law requires that on or before the day of publication two copies of the 

 completed map or chart shall be deposited with the Librarian of Congress. In 

 the case of a map or chart, unlike that of a book, photograph, chromo, or litho- 

 graph, the two copies to be deposited need not be made in the United States. It 

 would seem that the day has now arrived when the provision should be inserted 

 in our law requiring the copyrighted maps and charts to be engraved and printed 

 in this country. There is a provision in the statutes for the granting of cop3'- 

 right on new editions wherein substantial changes shall be made. In such case 

 it is necessary either to make out a new application, as in the first instance, and 

 send it, with the proper fee, to the Register of Copyrights, and on or before the 

 day of publication forward two copies of the article for deposit; or, merely deposit 

 one copy of every such edition without making a new application. It is perhaps 

 better to file a new title, describing ihe map or chart as being the second or third 

 or some other edition, revised, etc. In 1872, in the case of Farmer vs. Calvert 

 Lithographing Company, the court held that new editions of maps are included 

 in the copyright laws (Fed. Cas. 4651 ; 1 Flip., 228). 



The scientific treatment of geograplw and map-making has its 

 origin among the Ionic Greeks of Asia Minor. Anaximander, a 

 pupil of Thales (about 560 B. C. ) , sketched the first map and was 

 the first who sought to determine the compass of the earth (the 

 world disk) and the sea. — Encyclopedia Britannica. 



HISTORY OF THE DEPOSIT OF COPIES 



The matter of the deposit of the copies has had quite a little variety in its 

 history. The original copyright law required that but one copy of the map 



„, t1 ,. should be deposited with the Secretary of State within 



There was no other pastime r . 



nor exercise among the youth six months after the day of publication. In the first 

 but to draw plattes of Sicile general revision of the copyright laws, which occurred 

 and describe the situation of in 1831, it was stipulated that one copy of the article 

 Libya and Carthage. — /ft/- p rote cted should be deposited within three months 



after publication with the clerk of the court who 

 recorded the title, and this copy was to be sent by the clerk of the court to the 

 Secretary of State. That was during the days when copyright applications were 

 made to the circuit courts of the United States instead of to the Register of Copy- 

 rights, as at the present time. 



