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 5- U. S. TREASURY AND POST OFFICE REGULATIONS

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Treasury Department, July 17, 1911. Collectors and other officers of the customs:

The following sections of the copyright law, approved March 4, 1909, effective July i, 1909, together with the regulations made in pursuance thereof, are published for the information and guidance of customs officers and others concerned :

[Here follow sees. 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 18, as given in pre- ceding pages.]

The register of copyrights is required by this act to print at periodic intervals a catalogue of the titles of ar- ticles deposited and registered for copyright, which printed catalogues, as they are issued, will be distributed to the collectors of customs of the United States and to the post- masters of all exchange offices of receipt of foreign mails.

regulations

Under the copyright act the following articles are pro- hibited importation:

1. Piratical copies of any work copyrighted in the United States. By the term " piratical " is meant the print- ing, reprinting, publishing, copying, or reproducing without authority of the copyright proprietor of any article legally copyrighted and on which the copyright is still in force.

2. Articles bearing a false notice of copyright when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States.

3. Authorized foreign reprints of books by an American author copyrighted in the United States.

4. Authorized copies of any book copyrighted in the United States not produced in accordance with the manu- facturing provisions of section 15 of the copyright act, ex- cept such as are exempted in the said section 15 and section 31 of the act.