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Aeolian agree amendment authors and composers BEATTYS BOWMAN BRIGHAM Buck BURKAN cents a record CHAIRMAN CHINDBLOM committee compulsory license Congress contract copy copyright office copyright owner copyright proprietor copyrighted music court devices Duo-Art enactment ENGLEBRIGHT fixed full accessibility gentlemen give going grant hearings instruments serving interest Irving Berlin LANAHAN LANHAM legislation LETTS lump sum MACDONALD MCLEOD mean mechanical company mechanical license mechanical reproduction mechanically the musical MEIXELL MILLS monopoly motion picture Movietone music publishers music rolls musical composition paid patent PERKINS phonograph record piano piece of music player piano present law principle produce proposed bill proposition protection provision public performance question radio records manufactured reproduce mechanically reproducing companies right to bargain sell serving to reproduce sheet music SIROVICH SMITH SOLBERG sold song statement statute thing tion to-day understand Victor Herbert Vitaphone word roll word-roll
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Page 92 - And as a condition of extending the copyright control to such mechanical reproductions, that whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted or knowingly acquiesced in the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work...
Page 169 - Now, gentlemen, I am not going to take up any more of your time, but I have with me Mr.
Page 74 - That the provisions of this title, so far as they secure copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after July 1, 1909. and shall not include the works of a foreign author or composer unless the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar rights.
Page 92 - (e) Whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of musical instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, then in case of infringement of such copyright by the unauthorized manufacture, use, or sale of interchangeable parts, such as disks, rolls, bands, or cylinders for use in mechanical music-producing machines...
Page 105 - ... the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover in lieu of profits and damages a royalty as provided in section one, subsection (e), of this Act: Provided also, That whenever any person, in the absence of a license agreement, intends to use a copyrighted musical composition upon the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work...
Page 23 - It may be true that the use of these perforated rolls, in the absence of statutory protection, enables the manufacturers thereof to enjoy the use of musical compositions for which they pay no value. But such considerations properly address themselves to the legislative and not to the judicial branch of the Government.
Page 92 - ... the copyright office, sending to the copyright office a duplicate of such notice; and in case of his failure so to do the court may, in its discretion, in addition to sums hereinabove mentioned, award the complainant a further sum, not to exceed three times the amount provided by section 1, subsection (e) , by way of damages, and not as a penalty, and also a temporary injunction until the full award is paid. Rules and regulations for practice and procedure under this section shall be prescribed...
Page 23 - Our copyright laws urgently need revision. They are imperfect in definition, confused and inconsistent in expression; they omit provision for many articles which, under modern reproductive processes are entitled to protection; they impose hardships upon the copyright proprietor which are not essential to the fair protection of the public; they are difficult for the courts to interpret and impossible for the Copyright Office to administer with satisfaction to the public. Attempts to improve them...
Page 69 - Court has held that such rights as he has are purely statutory rights, but upon the ground that the welfare of the public will be served and progress of science and useful arts will be promoted by securing to authors for limited periods the exclusive rights to their writings.
Page 27 - It was at first thought by the committee that the copyright proprietors of musical compositions should be given the exclusive right to do what they pleased with the rights it was proposed to give them to control and dispose of all rights of mechanical reproduction, but the hearings disclosed that the probable effect of this would be the establishment of a mechanicalmusic trust.