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 TITF E Lx.—PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS.—Ch. 3. 957 CHAPTER THREE. COPYRIGHTS. See. { Sec. 4948. Copyrights to be under charge of f4962. Publication of notice of entry for Librarian of Congress. copyright rescribed. 4949. Seal of office. _ i 4963. Penalty for ihise publication of no- 4950. Bond of Librarian. tice of entry. 4951. Annual report._ 4964. Damages for violation of copyright 4952. What pub ications may be entered of books. for copyright. 4965. For violating copyright of maps, 4953. Term of copyrights. charts, prints, &c. 4954. Contmuance of term. _ | 4966. For violating copyright of dramatic 4955. Assignment of copyrights and re- compositions. cording. _ _ 4967. Damages for printing or publishing 4956. Deposit of title and published cop- any manuscript without consent 168- of author, &c. 4957. Record of entry and attested copy. 4968. Limitation of action in copyright 4958. Fees. cases. 4959. Copies of copyright works to be 4969. Defenses to action ill copyright furnished to Librarian of Con- cases. gress. 4970. Injunctions in copyright cases. 4960. Penalty for omission. 4971. Aliens and non-residents not privi- 4961. Postmasters to give receipts. leged. Sao 4948. All records and other things relating to copyrights and C01¤)’1‘i2h¤·¢¤l>€ required by law to be preserved. shall be under the control of the Libra- H‘ggd;:“;§“C0°f rian of Congress, and kept and preserved 111 the Library of Congress; g,.9,,,,_ “` and the Librarian of Congress shall have the immediate care and su(per- - ;· vision thereof. and, under the supervision of the joint committee of ‘on- 233 J“lX¤ l8'°# "· _ · _ · -, s. 80, \. 16, p. gross on the Library , shall perform all acts and dut1es requ1red by law m2_ touching copymghts. 18 June, 1874, c. 301, p. 79.—Shook :·. Rankin, 6 Bias., 477. Sec. 4949. 'l`he seal provided for the office of the Librarian of Congress g§•>¤l of ofH¢¢- _ shall be the seal thereof, and by it all records and papers issued from the 8·l¤l>jJ870.¢·?30, office and to be used in evidence shall be authenticated. °‘ 85* " 16* p' 212* Sec. 4950. The Librarian of Congressshall give a bond, with sureties, _ Bond of Librato the Treasurer of the Iinited States, m the sum of five thousand dol- mu- gg_ lars, with the condition that he will render to the proper officers of the Ibid. Treasury a true account of all moneys received by virtue of his office. Sec. 4951. The Librarian of Congress shall make an annual report to Annual report. Congress of the m1mber and description of copyright publications for Ibidi _ ` which entries have been made during the year. _ Sec. 4952. Any citizen of the United States or res1dent therein, who _\\’hat publicashall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any hook, map, :*0**** {U2? be 89* chart. dramatic or musical composition. engraving, cut, print, or photo- r;;;` °r °°p*` graph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chron1o, statue, %~—-·-·—- statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the line arts. and the executors, administrators, or assigns of any such P W hwg0n •·; person shall, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, have Bf9m;;!; #633;- the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing,_completing, copying, 14 Iii0W_, 5;};,; Joll executing, finishing, and vending the same; and, in the case of a dra- lie zu Jaques, 1 matic composition, of publicly performing or representing it, or causing }}lj¤t<={¤·, {Wig Bwit to be performed or represented by others. And authors may reserve  ’é7_ ${602 the right to dramatize or to translate their own works. ,._Abb(,{t,5f;mch_' 325; Rossiter 1·. Hall, 5 Blatch., 362; Daly r. Palmer, 6 Blatch., 256_ Sec. 4953. Copyrights shall be granted for the term of twenty-eight _'i;1¤fm of ¢·'0P)'· years from the time of recording the title thereof, in the manner herein- ‘Fl;%£i’: Ssc. 4954. The author. invento1·, or designer, if he be still living and Continuance of a citizen of the United States or resident t ierein, or his widow or chil- lf"9; ;.; dren, if he be dead, shall have the same exclusive right continued for _Il’*‘@*‘L___ the further term of fourteen years, upon recording the titie of the work Pegg; ‘g“,§€9 **59;; or description of the article so secured a second time, and complying P,e,.,p;,n,,,_F1£,“.l6: with all other regulations in regard to original copyrights, within six 2 Wood. & M., 42.
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