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Directions for Securing Copyrights
UNDER THE REVISED ACT OF CONGRESS, INCLUDING THE PROVISIONS FOR FOREIGN COPYRIGHT, BY ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891. 1. A printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or model or design for a work of the fine arts, for which copyright is desired, must be delivered to the Librarian of Congress or deposited in the mail, within the United States, prepaid, addressed:
Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
This must be done on or before day of publication in this or any foreign country.
Printed title required. print.
The printed title required may be a copy of the title page of such What style of publications as have title pages. In other cases, the title must be printed expressly for copyright entry, with name of claimant of copyright. The style of type is immaterial, and the print of a type-writer will be accepted. But a separate title is required for each entry, and each title must be printed on paper as large as commercial note. The title of a periodical must include the date and number; and each number of a periodical requires a separate entry of copyright. Copyright
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The legal fee for recording each copyright claim is 5° cents, fees. and for a copy of this record (or certificate of copyright under seal of the office) an additional fee of 50 cents is required, making $1, if certificate is wanted, which will be mailed as soon as reached in the records. In the 1 1 Two copies required. case of publications which are the production of persons not citizens or residents of the United States, the fee for recording title is $1, and 50 cents additional for a copy of the record. Certificates covering more than one entry in one certificate are not issued.
3. Not later than the day of publication in this country or abroad, two complete copies of the best edition of each book or other article must be delivered, to perfect the copyright, or deposited in the mail within the United States, addressed : Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.