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64. Copyright Registers.— The following Registers of copyrights shall be kept by the Registrar at the Copyrights Office: —


 * The Register of Literary Copyrights.
 * The Register of Fine Arts Copyrights,
 * The Register of International and State Copyrights.

65. Method of registration.—The owner of any copyright Method of performing right or lecturing right under this Act may registration obtain registration of his right in the manner prescribed.

66. Registration of assignments and transmissions.— When any person becomes entitled to any copyright performing right or lecturing right under this Act by virtue of any assignment or transmission, or to any interest therein by licence, he may obtain registration of the assignment, transmission, or licence in the manner prescribed.

67. How registration effected.—The registration of any copyright performing right or lecturing right under this Act, or of any assignment or transmission thereof or of any interest therein by licence, shall be effected by entering in

the proper register, the prescribed particulars relating to the right, assignment, transmission, or licence.

68. Trusts not registered.—(1.) No notice of any trust expressed, implied, or constructive shall be entered in any Register of Copyrights under this Act or be receivable by the Registrar.

(2.) Subject to this section, equities in respect of any copyright performing right or lecturing right under this Act may be enforced in the same manner as equities in respect of other personal property.

69. Register to be evidence.—Every Register of copyrights under this Act shall be prima facie evidence of the particulars entered therein and documents purporting to be copies of any entry therein or extracts therefrom certified by the Registrar and sealed with the seal of the Copyrights Office shall be admissible in evidence in all Federal or State courts without further proof or production of the originals.

70. Certified copies.—Certified copies of entries in any