The Copyright of a Map or Chart 441 



On the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution by the act of August 

 10, 1846, the above provision as to the deposit of copies was changed, requiring 

 the deliver}- within three months from publication of one copy to the Librarian 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and one copy to the Librarian of Congress. In 

 the Post-Office Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1856 (passed 

 March 3, 1855) free transportation through the mails was provided for copyright 

 deposits. In an act providing for keeping and distributing public documents, 

 passed February 5, 1859, it was declared that the copyright deposits and records 

 should be removed from the Department of State to the Department of the Interior. 

 By the act of February 18, 1867, a penalty of $25 was imposed for failure to 

 deposit copies in the Library of Congress. 



In the second revision of the copyright laws (act of July 8, 1870) all records 

 and other things relating to copyrights, including the deposits of books, maps, 

 etc. , in the Department of the Interior, were transferred to the Library of Con- 

 gress. The Librarian was required to give an additional bond of $5,000, and his 

 salary was increased to $4,000. By this law two copies of the best edition of any 

 article copyrighted was to be deposited within ten days after publication in the 

 Library of Congress and one copy of any subsequent edition. The provisions of 

 the law now in force regarding the deposit of copies have been already given 

 above. 



Of the two copies of each map or chart deposited in the Library of Con- 

 gress one is retained in the files of the Copyright 

 In another roome are repre- office and the other is placed in the Division of 



se "' f a " Maps and Charts. The map room of the Library 



plocts 01 most countries in the r r 



world.— Evelyn 1615 i s one °f ^he most interesting portions of that 



great building and is liberally patronized by car- 

 tographers, scientists, and students generally. 



Marinus of Tyre (about 150 A. D.) was the first who sought 

 to give effect to the demands made by Hipparchus for a trustworthy 

 representation of the countries of the world. — Encyclopedia 

 Britannica. 



THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE 



In obtaining a copyright on a map or chart there are three steps to be taken: 

 (1) Deposit of printed title; (2) Deposit of two complete copies; (3) Insertion of 

 the proper notice of copyright. The first two steps have been discussed, and now 

 we come to the last one of the three. When one critically examines the notices 

 as published, in the great majority of cases they are illegal, inasmuch as they do 

 not follow the form prescribed by the statutes. In the original law a copy of the 

 record was to be published in one or more newspapers of the United States for 

 four weeks. No other notice was required. 



By the act of 1802 it was required to be inserted at full length a copy of 

 the record on the title page or page following in case of a book, but if map or 



