Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-29

CRITICISED
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
HEARS RESOLUTION
CONDEMNED FOR COMMENTING
ON BEEF TRIAL
Presiding Judge in Case Against Chi
cago Meat Packers Also
Is Scored for His
Rulings

BY Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. ga resolu-
ton criticising President Roosevelt FOL
commenting upon the trial in Chicago OF
the beef trust case, and adversely criti
cised the presiding judge and his rulings
was introduced at the final session today
of the American Bar association Ds
George w. Whitlock of Baltimore.
The event of the convention was the
annual address of the British ambassa'
dro, James Bryce.
The proposed copyright bill now before
congress is complete, and If passed vii
mark a distinct advance, in the opinion
of the committee on proposed copyright
bill of the American Bar association. The
report of the committee was presented tc
the meeting today.
The two bills now pending, one be-
fore the house and one before the
senate, differ slightly in SOME partic-
ulars The senate bill is somewhat
broader and more comprehensive than
the house bill. The proposed legisla-
tion includes certain general features
which are worked out in detail in the
bill. These features may be sum-
married. as follows:
l. A broadening of the subject of
copyright to include all classes of
works which can be included within
the constitutional term, Writings of
an author"
2 The recognition of a right of
property In all the works of an author
before as we'll as after publication,
provided a notice of claim of copy
right is impressed upon or attached to
the work at the time of publication.
The requirement for registration of
title is dispensed with, but two copies
of the best edition are required to be
deposited with the librarian of con-
gress, and the register of copyrights
is given the right to call for these
copies, If they are not so deposited,
and penalty is imposed upon the
copyright proprietor for failure to
comply with such notice.
3. The extension of the subject of
copyright to include ''au forms of rec
ord in which the thought of an author
may be- recorded and from which it
may be read or reproduced"
The intention of this language is to
ineluue all means of reproducing
copyright music, such as phonograph
discs and piancla records.
4. The character of the notice re-
quired by the statute is greatly short
ened and simplified.
5. The remedies provided for in
fringement of copyright are consoli-
dated, simplified and expanded. For
merly the infringers of dramatic
works and musical works were pun
ished criminally, while the infringers
of books, works of art and other SUBJ
jects of copyright are not so pun
ished. Now all classes of infringe
ment are placed on the same footing,
and willful infringement is made
criminal offense. Civil remedies are
also provided of a, comprehensive ma
ture.
6. The rights of aliens are enlarged
to the extent that any person resi-
dent in any part of the world may OBJ
tain American copyright by first. or
contemporaneously with its first pub
lication in a foreign country, pub
fishing his work within the limits of
the United States.
This places the United States law of
copyrights upon a par with that of
Great Britain and some other foreign
countries