ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED
"LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C."
IN REPLY QUOTE FILE No. PE

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
PERIODICAL DIVISION

WASHINGTON

NOV 21 '38

Gentlemen:

The Library of Congress receives annually over 7,500 different
periodicals and 900 newspapers. The funds available make it impossible to
bind and preserve more than a limited number of these. Many publishers are
now sending us bound volumes of their periodicals at regular intervals to
replace the current issues previously received. It is a matter of pride
with them to have their sets complete on the shelves of the National
Library. If you find it possible to adopt this policy the Library of
Congress would appreciate the gift of the bound volumes (not loose-leaf
binders) indicated below. Please use the enclosed franked envelope for your
reply.

Southern Review

vol. 2, 1936/37 and future volumes as bound

La. State University Press
Baton Rouge, La.

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1937

WASHINGTON

IN REPLY QUOTE FILE NO. PE

MAY 11 '38

Gentlemen:

Southern Review

vol. 2, 1936/37 and all subsequent bound volumes

All correspondence should be addressed
"LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C."

In reply quote file No. PE

January 15, 1938

Dear Sirs:

May we ask your cooperation in obtaining for the Library
of Congress a file of Southern Review, January 1938, and continuation.

The advantage of the deposit of a file in the National Library
we are sure you will appreciate, as we, on our part, will appreciate
your services both in obtaining back numbers, so far as may be possible,
and in supplying issues as published.

Southern Review.
Jan. 1938, and continuation.

Southern Review
Louisiana State University
University, La.

SEP 15 1937

Gentlemen:

The Library of Congress receives annually over 8,000 different periodicals and 900 newspapers. The funds available make it impossible to bind and preserve more than a limited number of these. Many publishers are now sending us bound volumes of their periodicals at regular intervals to replace the current issues previously received. It is a matter of pride with them to have their sets complete on the shelves of the National Library. If you find it possible to adopt this policy the Library of Congress would appreciate the gift of the bound volumes indicated below.
Please use the enclosed franked envelope for your reply.

University State University Press
Baton Rouge, La.

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1936

MAR 20 1936

Gentlemen:

The Library of Congress receives annually over 10,000 different
periodicals and 900 newspapers. The funds available make it impossible to
bind and preserve more than a limited number of these. Many publishers are
now sending us bound volumes of their periodicals at regular intervals to
replace the current issues previously received. It is a matter of pride
with them to have their sets complete on the shelves of the National
Library. If you find it possible to adopt this policy the Library of
Congress would appreciate the gift of the bound volumes indicated below.

Southern Review

vol. 1, 1935, and all subsequent bound volumes

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1935

No. 6

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

COPYRIGHT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D. C.

PERIODICALS AND PERIODICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Instructions for securing copyright registration. Each issue or number of the periodical must be registered.

Under the Copyright Act now in force the following are the steps required to be taken to secure copyright registration for periodicals:

1. **Publish each number** (that is, place it on sale, sell, or publicly distribute it), after printing therein the required copyright notice, and before making any application to the Copyright Office for registration. (As to the form and position of the notice, see below.)

2. **Promptly after the publication** of each issue send two copies thereof to the Copyright Office, Washington, D. C., with a formal claim to copyright, using **Application Form B1**. Also send a remittance by money order for the statutory fee of $2.

Application forms for registration will be forwarded by the Copyright Office on request.

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT

The law prescribes that the copyright notice shall consist either of the word "Copyright" or the abbreviation "Copr." accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor, and the year in which publication was made.

In the case of a periodical the law directs that the notice shall be applied either upon the title-page, or upon the first page of text of each separate number, or under the title heading.

The law expressly provides that one notice of copyright in each number of a newspaper or periodical published shall suffice.

TITLES

The general title of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical can not be recorded under the copyright law to protect the title *per se*, or apart from any particular issue of the periodical. Copyright registration is not for the purpose of securing the exclusive right to use the title, but to protect the contents of each number.

FRANKING PRIVILEGE

The law requires that the postmaster to whom the articles to be
deposited in the Copyright Office are delivered shall, if requested,
give a receipt therefor and shall mail them to their destination with-
out cost to the copyright claimant. According to the ruling of the
Post Office Department the money order (or other remittance) is not
entitled to free postal transmission. This, with the application,
should therefore be forwarded separately by mail under letter post-
age addressed to the Register of Copyrights.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS

Copyright registration may be specifically made for any particular
contribution to a periodical if desired. The copyright notice should
be printed upon such contribution in the periodical following its
title and a single copy of the periodical should be deposited for
registration of the particular contribution, accompanied by a copy-
right claim, for which application Form A5 should be used.

It is not safe to send currency, stamps, or coin through the mail.
Checks may not be accepted for payment of copyright fees. Remit-
tances should be made by money order or bank draft, payable to
the Register of Copyrights.

EXPLANATORY CIRCULAR 6
Periodicals

(July, 1934—2,000)

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1934

No. 19 A

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

COPYRIGHT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D. C.

The copyright law contains no provisions under which registration can be made of a name, as such, to secure the exclusive right to use it in business of any kind. Entry can not therefore be made in the Copyright Office for coined names; names of articles of manufacture; names of games or puzzles; names of substances; names of products; names of medicines; names of theatrical combinations or troupes; stage names; pen names; professional names; business names, or names of companies or corporations.

The names or titles of books, music, dramas, and artistic works are recorded, not to secure the exclusive right to the use of such titles or names of the works; but in order to identify the literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical works in which claims of copyright are registered.

Where names constitute the whole or a part of trade-marks, or similar identifying devices, they may sometimes be protected under general rules of law relating to unfair competition. The Copyright Office has nothing to do with such protection.

Concerning the registration of trade-marks address the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

EXPLANATORY CIRCULAR 19 A
Mere Name
(July, 1934—3,000)

No. 19 B

The copyright law contains no provisions under which the **title**, as such, of any literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic production can be registered in the Copyright Office to secure monopoly in the use of the title. For this reason search is not made to ascertain previous use of a title of any work presented for copyright registration.

Names for series of books or for "libraries" can not be registered for the purpose of securing the exclusive right to use such names or titles.

The **general name** or **title** of a newspaper or magazine can not be registered in the Copyright Office for protection of the name as such, but **each issue** of the periodical may be registered upon depositing two copies of the issue, bearing the required notice of copyright.

While titles may not, by themselves, be registered in this Office, each work entered must be given some distinguishing title by which it may be identified to permit registration.

Titles are sometimes protectible under the general rules of law relating to unfair competition. The Copyright Office has nothing to do with such protection.

P. S.—Titles of all works registered in this office are published in the "Catalogue of Copyright Entries," which may be consulted in many libraries throughout the United States.

EXPLANATORY CIRCULAR 19 B
Mere Title
(July, 1934—1,500)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

No. 35

COPYRIGHT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D. C.

# Steps Necessary to Secure Copyright Registration in the United States under the Act of March 4, 1909, as amended

For works reproduced in copies for sale or distribution:

1. **Publish the work with the copyright notice.** The notice may be in the form "Copyright, 19______ (year date of publication) by ______________________ (name of copyright owner)."

The name of the copyright owner given in the notice should be the true, legal name of the person, firm, or corporation owning the copyright, and no other. The use of a fictitious or assumed name, or the name of any person other than the copyright proprietor, may result in the loss of the copyright protection.

Please see the back of this sheet for additional information as to the form and place of the notice. The date in the copyright notice should agree with the year date of publication.

2. Promptly after publication,\* send to the Copyright Office two copies of the best edition of the work, with an application for registration and a **money order** payable to the Register of Copyrights for the statutory registration fee of $2. As to special registration of photographs, see below.

In the case of books (including pamphlets, leaflets, separate forms or single pages) which have been printed from type set or plates made therefrom, or by lithographic or photo-engraving process, the copies deposited must be accompanied by an affidavit, under the official seal of an officer authorized to administer oaths, stating that the typesetting, printing, and binding of the book have been performed within the United States.

This affidavit is not required in the case of a book of foreign origin in a language or languages other than English, nor in the case of a printed play in any language, as such works are not required to be manufactured in the United States.

Only one copy is required to be deposited in the case of a work by an author who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation and has been published in a foreign country in a language other than English.

In the case of contributions to periodicals send **one complete copy of the periodical** containing the contribution with application and fee. No affidavit is required.

3. **Under the provisions of the Amendatory Act of July 3, 1926, if a book or periodical** has been printed or produced in the United States by some other process than type setting, as provided by said act, an affidavit of date of actual publication is required to be filed. Application and affidavit forms will be supplied by this office on request.

For works not reproduced in copies for sale or distribution:

Copyright also may be had of certain classes of works (see a, b, c, etc., below) of which copies are not reproduced for sale, by filing in this office an application for registration, with the statutory fee of $1, sending therewith:

(a) In the case of lectures or other oral addresses, or of dramatic or musical compositions, **one complete manuscript or typewritten copy** of the work.

(b) In the case of photographs not intended for general circulation, **one photographic print**.

(c) In the case of works of art (paintings, drawings, sculpture), models or designs, or drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character, **one photograph or other identifying reproduction of the work**.

(d) In the case of **motion-picture photoplays**, a title and description, with one print taken from each scene of every act.

(e) In the case of **motion pictures other than photoplays**, a title and description, with not less than two prints taken from different sections of a complete motion picture.

In the case of each of the works here noted, not reproduced in copies for sale, the law expressly requires that a second deposit of printed copies for registration and the payment of a second fee must be made upon publication.

*The date of publication is defined in the statute as "the earliest date on which the work was placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed." [OVER]

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Act of July 3, 1926:

The Act approved July 3, 1926, amends Section 15 of the Act of March 4, 1909, by providing that the requirement of printing from type set or plates made therefrom, or by lithographic or photo-engraving process, shall not apply "to works printed or produced in the United States by any other process than those above specified in this Section."

Fees:

The statutory fee for registration of any published work is two dollars, including a certificate of registration under seal. The fee for an unpublished work is $1. In the case of a published photograph, if a certificate is not demanded, the fee is $1. In the case of several volumes of the same book deposited at the same time, only one registration at one fee is required.

It is not safe to send currency, stamps, or coin through the mail. Checks may not be accepted for payment of copyright fees. Remittances should be made by money order or bank draft, payable to the Register of Copyrights.

Extract from the Act of March 4, 1909, respecting the Copyright notice

SEC. 18. That the notice of copyright required by section nine of this Act shall consist either of the word "Copy-right" or the abbreviation "Copr.," accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor, and if the work be a printed literary, musical, or dramatic work, the notice shall include also the year in which the copyright was secured by publication. In the case, however, of copies of works, specified in subsections (f) to (k)*, inclusive, of section five of this Act, the notice may consist of the letter C inclosed within a circle, thus: ©, accompanied by the initials, monogram, mark, or symbol of the copyright proprietor: Provided, That on some accessible portion of such copies or of the margin, back, permanent base, or pedestal, or of the substance on which such copies shall be mounted, his name shall appear. But in the case of works in which copyright is subsisting when this Act shall go into effect, the notice of copyright may be either in one of the forms prescribed herein or in one of those prescribed by the Act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

SEC. 19. That the notice of copyright shall be applied, in the case of a book or other printed publication, upon its title-page or the page immediately following [the back of the title-page], or if a periodical either upon the title-page or upon the first page of text of each separate number or under the title heading, or if a musical work either upon its title-page or the first page of music: Provided, That one notice of copyright in each volume or in each number of a newspaper or periodical published shall suffice.

*The following are the classes of works "specified in subsections (f) to (k)":
(f) Maps.
(g) Works of art; models or designs for works of art.
(h) Reproductions of a work of art.
(i) Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character.
(j) Photographs.
(k) Prints and pictorial illustrations.

Explanatory Circular 35
Directions for Copyright
(July 1934—25,000)

9-1157

CS

No. 14

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The Southern Review
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, La.
Attention Albert R. Erskine, Jr.

April 2, 1935

DEAR SIR:

As requested in your letter of inquiry, careful search has been made in the various files and indices of this office, with the result stated below.

If this information is not sufficient for your purpose, further search will be made if you can furnish additional data upon which to base a more extended examination. All copyright entries are indexed under the names of copyright claimants, and in order to determine whether any given work has been entered, it is generally necessary to know the name of the supposed claimant of copyright and the title of the work, and to know exactly whether it is a book, periodical, dramatic or musical composition, map, work of art, photograph or print, and, in the case of a book, the name of the author. In the case of dramatic compositions and musical compositions a title index is available for entries made from 1870 to date.

If this inquiry relates to any recent registration, it is possible that the index cards may not yet be available. Registrations in this office are very numerous, numbering more than 150,000 per year, and some time is necessarily required for indexing these entries. Some clue to the date of the application for copyright should therefore be furnished to insure a definite reply to your inquiry.

Inclosures:

Circs. 19-A,19-B
Circs. 6,35, forms B-1

Result of search:

A search of our files fails to disclose any registration of a magazine entitled "The Southern Review".

We might point out, however, that names, titles, etc., are not subject matter of copyright, and cannot be protected under the copyright law. See circulars 19-A and 19-B

CIRCULAR LETTER 14
Subject:
ANSWER TO LETTERS OF INQUIRY
(March, 1934—2,000)

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1934

B1

2 c. rec'd

Application
rec'd

Fee rec'd $

IMPORTANT. Applicant must not write in the blank lines above; to do so will cause delay in Copyright Office.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION
PERIODICAL PUBLISHED IN UNITED STATES

REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, Washington, D. C.

Of the PERIODICAL named herein, TWO complete copies of the best edition published in the United States on the date stated herein are herewith deposited to secure copyright registration according to the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1909. The periodical has been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section 15 of the said Act. $2 (statutory fee for registration and certificate) is also inclosed. The copyright is claimed by

(1) Name of copyright owner

(Write full

legal name of copyright owner)

(2) Address

(Street)

(City)

(State)

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