Copyright and Patent Laws of the United States, 1790 to 1870; With Notes of Judicial Decisions Thereunder and Forms and Indexes (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT OF 1790, CHAP. 15, 1, 2. OBSOLETE. terra of fourteen years from the recording the title thereof in the clerk's office, as is hereinafter directed: And that the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already made and composed, and not printed or published, or that shall hereafter be made and composed, being a citizen or citizens of these United States, or resident therein, and his or their executors, administrators or assigns, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending such map, chart, book or books, for the like term of fourteen years from the time of recording tlie title thereof in the clerk's office as aforesaid. And if, at the expiration of the said term, the author or authors, or any of them, be living, nnd a citizen or citizens of these United States, or resident therein, the same exclusive right shall be continued to him or them, his or their executors, administrators or assigns, for the further term of fourteen years: Provided, he or they shall cause the title thereof to be a second time recorded and published in the same manner as is hereinafter directed, and that within six months before the expiration of the first term of fourteen years aforesaid. (a) The " copyright" recognized by tins act, and which is intended to be protected, is presumed to be the right of property which an author has at common law, in his manuscript. Such protection ig given as well to books published, as to manuscript copies. Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet, 661.?McLEAN, J.; Sup. Ct., 1834 Section 2. And be it further enacted, That if any other person or persons, from and after the recording the title of any map, chart, book or books, and publishing the same as aforesaid, and within the times limited and granted by this act, shall pr...