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ber of the Authors Club, he had the satisfaction of signing, as one of his last acts, a copyright bill completely codifying the law of copyright and greatly broadening international copyright. The copyright code, as in force July i, 1909, is printed with an in- dex and with the regulations adopted by the U. S. Supreme Court, as Copyright Office Bulletin 14. Code of 1909 The code of 1909 made the manufacturing clause more drastic, though freeing photographs from its provisions, by requiring in the case of books, peri- odicals, lithographs and photo-engravings that they should be completely manufactured within the United States, including printing and binding as well as type- setting, with requirement of affidavit from printer or publisher in the case of books; but made on the other hand a further approach to complete internationati copyright in freeing from the manufacturing clause "the original text of a book of foreign origin in a language or languages other than English," thus relieving a difficult situation which threatened re- taliation and the rupture of copyright relations by Germany and other countries, and in extending protection to mechanical music reproductions on a Hopes of reciprocal basis. The hopes of the friends of copy- ^^®^^ right will not, however, be fully realized until the manufacturing clause, with the affidavit provision, is repealed, and the United States enabled by Con- gress to join the family of civilized nations as a signatory power in the Berlin convention.

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