Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress

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Library of Congress, 1924
 

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Page 260 - States at the time of the first publication of his work ; or (b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens...
Page 246 - ... author" shall include an employer in the case of works made for hire. SEC. 63. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, but nothing in this Act shall affect causes of action for infringement of copyright heretofore committed now pending in courts of the United States, or which may hereafter be instituted; but such causes shall be prosecuted to a conclusion in the manner heretofore provided by law.
Page 226 - To pay to the copyright proprietor such damages as the copyright proprietor may have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer shall have made from such infringement, and in proving profits the plaintiff shall be required to prove sales only and the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost which he claims...
Page 218 - That compilations or abridgments, adaptations, arrangements, dramatizations, translations, or other versions of works in the public domain, or of copyrighted works when produced with the consent of the proprietor of the copyright...
Page 221 - The application for registration shall specify to which of the following classes the work in which copyright is claimed belongs : (a) Books, including composite and cyclopedic works, directories, gazetteers, and other compilations.
Page 215 - To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition...
Page 241 - The current catalogues of copyright entries and the index volumes herein provided for shall be admitted in any court as prima facie evidence of the' facts stated therein as regards any copyright registration.
Page 218 - That the copyright secured by this Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only: (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation...
Page 252 - That the register of copyrights shall receive, and the persons to whom the services designated are rendered shall pay...
Page 266 - President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution of Congress, and...

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