Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-04-06

AN ACT the several respecting eopy-nghts
 Be t enacted 6y the Senate and House 9 Re1tresentatives ofthe United States ot .dme, 7icd in Congress assembled, That from ano after the passing of this act, any person oi persons, being a citizen or citizens Of the Onit- ed States, or resident therein, who shall be the author or authors of any book or books map, chart, or musical composition, which may be now made or composed, and not printed and published, or shall hereafter De made or composed, or who shall invent, de- sign, etch, engrave, work, or cause to be en- graved, etched, or worked, from his own de- sign, any print or engraving, and the execu- tors, administrators, or legal assigns ot such person or persons, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprnting, publishing and vending such book or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engrav- ing, in whole, or in part, for the term of twen- weight years from the time of recording the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter di- rected.
 Sec 3. find 6e t further enacted, That if, at the expiration of the aforesaid term of years, such author, inventor, designer, en- graver, or any of them, where the work had been originally composed and made by more than one person, be still living, and citizen or citizens of the United States, or resident therein, or being dead, shall have left widow, or child, or children, either or all then living, the same exclusive right shall be continued to such author, designer, or engra- yer, or if dead then to such widow or child, or children, for the further term of fourteen years: Propided, that the title of the work so secured shall be second time recorded, and all such other regulations as are herein required in regard to original copy-rights, be complied with in respect to such renewed copy-right, and that within six months before tho expiration of the first term.
 Sec. 3. lind De it further enacted, That, in all cases of renewal of copyright under this act, such author or proprietor shall, within two months from the date of said re- newal, cause copy of the record thereof to be published in one or more of the newspa- pers printed in the United States, for the space of four weeks.
 Sec. 4. lind 6e # further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shall, before publication, deposite printed copy of the title of such book, or books, map chart, musical com position, print, cut, or engraving, in the Clerks office of the district court of the district wherein the author or proprietor shall reside; and the Clerk of such court is hereby directed and required to re- cord the same thereof forthwith, in book to be kept for that purpose, in the words fol- lowing, (giving copy of the title, under the seal of the court to the said author or propri- etor, whenever he shall require the same:) "District of - to wit: Be it remembered, That, on the - day of - Anno Domini, "A. B. of the said District, hath deposit ed in this office the title of book, (map, chart, or otherwise, as the case may be, the title which is in the words following, to wit: (here insert the title;) the right whereof he cIa;roe anthor for rronrietor the ras so may be:) in conformity with an act of Con- gress, entitled "An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights" c. D., Clerk of the District. For which record, the Clerk shall be entitled to receive, from the person claiming such right as aforesaid, fifty cents; and the like sum for every copy, under seal, actually given to such person or his assigns. And the author or proprietor of any such book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, shall, within three months from the publication of saidbook, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, deliver or cause to be delivered copy of the same to the Clerk of said district. And it shall be the duty of the Clerk of each district court, and at least once in every year, to trans init certified list of all such records of copy. right, including the titles so recorded, and the dates of record, and also the several CO., pies of books or other works deposited in this office according to this act, to the Secretary of State, to be preserved in his office
 Sec. 5. And De it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act unless he shall give information of copy-right being secured, by causing to be in serted, in the several copies of each and eve " edition published during the term secured on the title page, or the page immediately following, if it be book, or if map, chart,
 al ont by causing to be impressed on the face there of, or, if volume of maps, charts, music or engravings, upon the tile or frontispiecc thereof, the following words, viz: "Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year by A. B. in the Clerks office of the dis trict court of -" Gas the case may be.)
 Sec. 6. find De it thriller enacfed, That if any other persons, from and after the re- cording the title of any book or books, ac- cording to this act shall, within the term or terms, herein limited, print, publish or inn port, or cause to be printed, published, or im- ported, any copy of such book, or books, without the consent of the person legally en- titled to the copy-right thereof, first had and obtained in writing, signed in the presence of two or more credible witnesses. or shall, knowing the same to be so printed or import ed. publish. sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be published, sold, or exposed to sale, any copy of such book without such consent in writing then such offender shall forfeit eve ry copy of such book to the person legally, at the, time, entitled to the oopy-rght thereof; and shall also forfeit and pay fifty cents for every such sheet which may be found in his possession, either printed or printing, pub lished, imported, or exposed to sale, contrary to the intent of this act, the one moiety thereof to such legal owner ofthe opy-right, as afore said, and the other to the use of the United