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• Bandzählung: 35.1891
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1891
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• Vorlage: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT GRANTED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. The following is the full text of the United States Inter national Copyright Act, just passed, and which includes photographs:— - . Be it enacted,—That section 4,952 of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : — “ Section 4,952.—The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photographic negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of fine arts ; and the executors, administrators, or assigns of any such person shall, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, have the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and varying the same, and in the case of dramatic composition, of publicly performing or repre senting it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others, and authors or their assigns shall have exclusive right to dramatise and translate any of their works for which copy right shall have been obtained under the laws of the United States. ” Section 2.—That section 4,954 of the Revised Statues be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows :— “ Section 4,954.—The author, inventor, or designer, if he be still living, or his widow or children, if he be dead, shall have the same exclusive right continued for the further term of fourteen years, upon recording the title of the work or descrip tion of the article so secured a second time, and complying with all other regulations in regard to original copyright within six months before the expiration of the first term, and such person shall, within two months from the date of said renewal, cause a copy of the record thereof to be published in one or more newspapers printed in the United States for the space of four weeks.” Section 3.—That section 4,956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby amended so that it shall read as follows “ Section 4,956 No person shall be entitled unless he shall, on or before the day of publication in this or any foreign country, deliver at the office of the Libra rian of Congress, or deposit in the mail within the United States, addressed to the Librarian of Congress at Washington, district of Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or a model or design for a work of the fine arts, for which he desires a copyright, nor unless he shall also, not later than the day of the publication thereof in this or any foreign country, deliver at the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, district of Columbia, or deposit in the mail within the United States, addressed to the Librarian of Congress at Washington, district of Columbia, two copies of such copyright book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, chromo, cut, print, or photograph, or, in the case of a painting, drawing, statue, statuary, model, or design for a work of the fine arts, a photograph of same ; pro vided that in case of a book, photograph, chromo, or litho graph, the two copies of the same required to be delivered or deposited as above shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or from plates made therefrom, or from negatives or drawings on stone made within the limits of the United States, or from transfers made therefrom. During the existence of such copyright, the importation into the United States of any book, chromo, lithograph, or photo graph so copyrighted, or any edition or editions thereof, or any plates of the same not made from type set, negatives, or drawings on stone made within the limits of the United States, shall be, and it is hereby prohibited, except in the cases speci fied in paragraphs 512 to 516 inclusive in section 2 of the Act, entitled ‘ An Act to reduce the revenue and equalise the duties on imports, and for other purposes,’ approved October 1st, 1890 ; and except in the case of persons purchasing for use, and not for sale, who import subject to the duty thereon not more than two copies of such book at any one time ; and except in the case of newspapers and magazines not containing in whole or in part matter copyrighted under the provision of this Act, unauthorised by the author, which are hereby ex empted from prohibition of importation ; provided, neverthe less, that in the cases of books in foreign languages of which only translations in English are copyrighted, the prohibition of importation shall apply only to the translation of the same, and the importation of the books in the original language shall be permitted.” Section 4.—That section 4,958 of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby amended, so that it will read as follows : “ Section 4,958. The Librarian of Congress shall receive from the persons to whom the services designated are rendered the following fees :—First, for recording the title or description of any copyright book or other article, 50 c. ; second, for every copy under seal of such record actually given to the person claiming the copyright or his assigns, 50 c. ; third, for record ing and certifying an instrument of writing for the assignment of a copyright, 1 dollar ; fourth, for every copy of an assignment, 1 dollar. All fees so received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, provided that the charge for recording the title or description of any article entered for copyright, the produc tion of a person not a citizen or resident of the United States, shall be 1 dollar, to be paid, as above, into the Treasury of the United States, to defray the expenses of the list of copyright articles, as hereinafter provided for. And it is hereby made the duty of the Librarian of Congress to furnish to the Secre tary of the Treasury copies of the entries of titles of all books and other articles wherein the copyright has been completed by the deposit of two copies of such book, printed from type set within the limits of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and by the deposit of two copies of such other article made or produced in the United States ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to prepare and print at intervals of not more than a week catalogues of such title entries, for distribution to the collectors of customs of the United States, and to the postmasters of all post-offices receiving foreign mails, and such weekly lists as they are issued shall be furnished to all parties desiring them at a sum not exceeding 5 dollars per annum ; and the Secretary and the Postmaster-General are hereby empowered and required to make and enforce such rules and regulations as shall prevent the importation into the United States, except upon the conditions above specified, of all at tides prohibited by this Act.” {To be continued'). PHOTOGRAPHIC Subjects in Polynesia.— The Colonies and India describes a new field for photographers, and photographs of the ruins mentioned would be of considerable interest t “ Mr. H. B. Sterndale, who passed to and fro among the Pacific Islands with an observant eye a few years ago, has lately been making public the result of his researches among the Cyclopean remains to be found in various parts of the Poly- nesean archipelagoes. Ponap, where the Spaniards are now busy carrying on a war of extermination against the unfor tunate natives, has long been known to travellers in that region for its curious relics of an earlier civilisation, and evidence of the remains discovered upon the Easter Island some years ago are at the present time to be seen in the rude statues which stand at the entrance to the British Museum. Mr Sterndale appears to have gone further afield, and in the island of Lele he made some interesting discoveries. Lele is situated in 98 deg. south latitude, and 160 deg. east longitude, and is described as a volcanic island, with an extinct volcano scarped and walled to the summit. Here is to be found a wilderness of ruined castles, the walls in some cases 12ft. thick and from 30ft. to 40ft. in height. They are in the form of parallelograms, 200ft. by 100ft. for the most part, but some are described as being very much larger. Many of the buildings appear to have been erected upon artificial islets,- which are surrounded by canals lined with stone. The theory put forward by Mr. Sterndale is that early Hindoos reached not only Polynesia but Central America, and he points to the use by the Polynesians of the word ‘ meru ’ for paradise, and the word ‘ dewa ’ for spirit, as distinct evidence in support of his contention.”