Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906.

At first glance at A and B, in section 8, it would appear that those were intended to represent the same classes and to give precisely the same rights; but, apparently by inadve...

Page 30, line 1, the words "ninety days" should be changed to "three months" as more convenient and as excluding any contention whether or not Sundays and holidays are included...

The CHAIRMAN. The committee has decided that it will hear some representative of all these interests, if they shall so desire, not exceeding an hour, with the same permission to...

The league had stood for a copyright commission instead of this conference. But when we find this bill, sir, presented as the result of only a year's work, and remember that the...

About the year 1901 certain publishers of this country formed an association called the American Publishers' Association, and, in conjunction with the American Booksellers' Asso...

Mr. CURRIER. I want to ask you the question that I asked Mr. Davis a moment ago: Would the people whom you represent object to paying a reasonable royalty to the author or propr...

Mr. PUTNAM. It is simply in answer to Mr. Ogilvie's intimation that he answered his inquiry, and that his inquiry was whether a copyright existed upon that book. What was the an...

Mr. DAVIS. My machines, those that I have been inventing and patenting for years, are specially adapted to reproduce, or may be specially adapted and arranged to reproduce any p...

Section 4966 of the Revised Statutes covers that ground already, and provides that copyright may cover the performance of dramatic work. But I hold, and I hold without the sligh...

No man living has ever been able to take a talking-machine record and by examining it microscopically or otherwise state what said record contains. In this sense it stands preem...

But if I should go into a photograph gallery and have somebody pose me who did not have that skill--and also because the subject would not admit of it, and would not produce any...

Mr. WEBB. I understand that; but you, a man who is expert in these matters, can not state to us what other points would be covered than public exhibition or offering the same fo...

Mr. MALCOMSON. I intend, Mr. Chairman, to be brief. The remarks that I shall make are pertinent more to correct the law so as to make it more definite than for any other purpose...

I now ask you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, to turn to section 15 of the bill, found at page 11 of the House bill, which would seem to me to be rather ambiguous. It provides that...

It is not a copy in fact; it is not designed to be read or actually used in reading music as the original staff notation is; and the claim that it may be read, which is practica...

Mr. DAVIS. Well, Mr. Sousa is not construing the laws. I am telling you my idea of the laws, as I understood them when I entered into this art ten years ago, and as the courts h...

The CHAIRMAN. It seems that a Mr. Davis, who represents some manufacturers of musical devices, does not understand that he is to have any part of the hour assigned to the gentle...

There should be no question but that the particular characteristic utterances of a singer, or recitationist, or of an actor, or of an orator, or the particular instrumentation o...

The architect, the man of brains, who conceives a wonderful conception of a piece of architecture or arrangement of a building, how can he prevent anyone else from duplicating t...

"7. (_a_) Any person, at any time while a patent continues in force, may apply to the commissioner, by petition, for a license to make, construct, use, and sell the patented inv...

The list of participants in the conference included two associations that might be interested or were certain to be interested in these importation provisions. One was the Natio...

The public policy involved in that point has been threshed out for many years in patent cases; and in patent cases it has been found to be unjust to compel anybody to submit to...

These conferences have been going on for a year past. The fact that they were being held, their purpose, and the associations participating in them was freely published. Among t...

The original purpose of such deposits was the enrichment of the Library. This is clear from their history, both in this country and abroad. They were made a condition of securin...

I wish to state, gentlemen, that three or four days ago I first learned of the introduction of this measure. I have heard what the advocates of this bill have said with referenc...

_Protection of copyright._--The present statute (Rev. Stat., sec. 4965) attempts to define acts which shall constitute infringements. The bill, having defined the exclusive righ...

This right of royalty should therefore not run to the proprietor of the original copyright as such, but to the composer as such. If the composer has sold his copyright the purch...

Mr. CAMERON. One thing more in regard to the constitutional question which I mentioned. I shall submit, or the company I represent will submit, a written brief. You will be addr...

In witness whereof the publisher has on the day and year first hereinabove written hereunto set his hand and seal, and the Æolian Company has caused its name and corporate seal...

There can be no reasonable doubt that the intention of the amendment of this section, by making it refer also to musical compositions, was to include musical-dramatic with other...

FRANK D. CURRIER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, _Chairman_. SOLOMON R. DRESSER, PENNSYLVANIA. JOSEPH M. DIXON, MONTANA. EDWARD H. HINSHAW, NEBRASKA. ROBERT W. BONYNGE, COLORADO. WILLIAM W. CAM...