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COPYRIGHT

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Prohibition of piratical copies

These provisions, it may be noted, are a singular mixture, almost without precedent, of acceptance and denial of the "exclusive right" of the author or copyright proprietor.

In respect to the importation of books in relation with copyright, the provisions of the American code as to prohibition and limited permission are specific and detailed, as follows:

" (Sec. 30.) That the importation into the United States of any article bearing a false notice of copy- right when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States, or of any piratical copies of any work copyrighted in the United States, is prohibited.

" (Sec. 31.) That during the existence of the Amer- ican copyright in any book the importation into the United States of any piratical copies thereof or of any copies thereof (although authorized by the au- thor or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions speci- fied in section fifteen of this Act, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, or any copies thereof produced by lithographic or photo-engraving process not per- formed within the limits of the United States, in ac- cordance with the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, shall be, and is hereby, prohibited: Provided, importations however, That, except as regards piratical copies, such prohibition shall not apply:

' ' (a) To works in raised characters for the use of the blind ;

" (b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although containing matter copyrighted in the United States printed or reprinted by authority of the copyright proprietor, unless such newspaper or magazine con- tains also copyright matter printed or reprinted without such authorization;

Permitted