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THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT LEAGUE
DIsAPPRovEs OF THE TRELOAR BILL.


pIsAPPRovEs OF THE TRELOAR BILL.
At a meeting OF the Executive Committee OF the
American Publishers Copyright League held on
Monday the following resolutions were presented
and adopted:
Resolved, That the American Publishers Copy.
ne ~ % b on ntreduced in the House
OF Representatives by Mr. Treloar III r. o,s'e) ios
The bi p pr toy me restriction to citizens
Of the United States" Of the privilege OF ssi ex
tended the privilege OF securing Copyright within
the United States TO the citizens OF foreign state:
copyright. The of 1870 had Limited the privilege
Of u RI the 50 se
proposed limiting the copyrght privilege to eitzens,
would bring about revocation or cancellation ,n OF
the copyright relations which have been entered INTO
by the United States, under the act OF 1881, with
Great Britain FranGe Germany aya ifsg a3s and
would constitute distinct step back Of the policy
D our Of ierPr and
2. The bill provides for the addition TO the list o
manufictured Within the limits Of the United states
works Of art in the form OF engravings. cuts or
prints In the discussion OF the provisions OF me
KNOWLEDGE Of the subject that the sppieatiion, OF
of foreign musical composers would in practice
prevent such composers in the majority OF cases.
and would simply perpetuate the practice previously
existing of the appropriation by American reprinters
established during this discussion that condition
requiring the manufacture or produeuon IN the
foreign designer must in the majority OF instances
and particularly in the cases Of the more i'm
across the Atlantic for the purpose Of being en-
gravedl render impractica9le the securing OF Amer-
fore. the property in such reproductions to be APP
~ Nh the in the way Of
securing simultaneous publication in the United
authors Of France. Germany and Spain have thus
American Copyright Act although the several ma
tons which have entered into copyright relations
zens without any restrictions Of local manufacture.
the fun c9pyrght Pr'yeges enjoyed by their own
on the Part Of he nations s referred Herr TO- are sas
with the United States. and these re atoms would
before now have been terminated greatly 10 the
had not been Tor certain ADVANTAGES secured under
Act of 1891 to the foreign producers OF works or
be withdrawn also from the productions OF foreign
artists (as would be- the result under the Treioar
bin, international copyright relations between the
United States and he nations above specified Will
inevitably be brought to close
total amount TO be collected for the Infringement OF
the copyright Of literary production is limited 10
tlnct departure from the principles heretofore
trolling the law of copyright throughout the world.
through the appropriation Of Copyrighted work.
proceeds which would enable him to pay such Z
isfactory return from his undertaking. The penal.
ty should be left. as under the present law, pro-
portioned the extent OF the injury caused TO the
owner OF the copyright and proportional also to the
proceeds secured TO the person appropriating the
copyrighed property. which proceeds have been d.
verted from the rightful owner.
4. The plan for instituting the office OF COMMITS, COMMITS,
sioner of Copyrights can In our Judgment. be deat
with more effectively in separate bill such az mas
already been III in Nh he orr by Mr. ahs
our opinion that the stan provided under d the e. un
necessarily large and expensive and tnat tne .e o,
vices Of 50 many smP0Sss NO sarie9 Years OF
s. The purpose expressed In Clause XXvlIl o.
nronsrty rights Of afrarnatc authors Also In
judgment be better prou a apOa andin~ in The
provisions of.the Cummings Dill To" pe"D'"e - '''
For these several considerations II our tuds:
that the enactment OF tne ,abt s 81 oro
ducers Of copyright property ana 70 the Ihtelss.s
Of the community fog the use OF wncn Sufn wod
a breach OF international good faith with the sew
risht privileges to American citizens. We, there
fore ask that the bill may receive the uniavorapis
action of Congress and Of the Executive
On motion il also resolved that this COM
ml,tee cordially approves the purpose of the bills
introduced. IN the H4ise by Mr.. iBa nkhead. and In
the Senate by Senator Morrill,. for insttuting
separate Bureau for the Registry OF Copyrights. II
IS however the judgment Of the committee that
larger staff of assistants than that specified In
these bills will be required for the effective conduct
of the work that is to be confded to this Bureau;
and 1t is further opinion that more effective
service will be secured II the responsibility for the
selection of all the members of his working stan
be placed in the hands of the proposed Register OK
lie Secretary was instructed to send copies OF
this resolution TO Mr.. Bankhead and TO SENATOR