Hearing on H.R. 5976, Washington D.C. (1896)

Source: Cornell Law Library: House Committee on Patents, Treloar Copyright Bill, Hearing on H.R. 5976, 54th cong., 1st sess., 1896.

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Hearing on H.R. 5976, Washington D.C. (1896), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Treloar Copyright Bill: Hearing on H.R. 5976 Before the House Committee on Patents

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Abstract:
A hearing before the Committee on Patents on A Bill H.R. 5976 for a comprehensive copyright reform.

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Bibliography:
  • Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  • Rosen, Zvi. 'The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Exclusive Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions.' 24 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1157 (2007).

  • Carroll, Michael. 'The Struggle for Music Copyright.' 57 Fla. L. Rev. 907 (2005).


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Year: 1896

Location: Washington D.C.

Language: English

Source: Cornell Law Library: House Committee on Patents, Treloar Copyright Bill, Hearing on H.R. 5976, 54th cong., 1st sess., 1896.

Persons referred to:
Browne, Alexander P.
Ditson, Oliver
Dittenhoefer, Abram Jesse
Draper, William Franklin
Drone, Eaton Sylvester
Freeman, William Capron
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Haynes, John C.
Irwin, May
Kennedy, Harry
Lowell, John
Marzials, Theo
McTammany, John
Michelangelo
Putnam, George Haven
Raphael
Rubens, Peter Paul
Shakespeare, William
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
Treloar, William Mitchellson
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills

Places referred to:
Berlin
Boston, Massachusetts
Canada
Chicago
Edinburgh
Europe
France
Germany
Great Britain
Liberia
London
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New York
Philadelphia
Scotland
Vienna
Washington

Cases referred to:
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1883)

Institutions referred to:
Berliner Photographische Gesellschaft, New York
Edward Schuberth & Co., music publishing house (New York)
International Typographical Union (1852-1986)
Library of Congress
Music Publishers' Association of the United States
Patent Office, U.S. Department of State
U.S. Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Supreme Court

Legislation:
International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12
U.S. International Copyright Act, 1891 (Chace Act)

Keywords:
Anglo-American
abridgements
art market
book market
book trade
customs
deposit
dramatic works, protected subject matter
dramatico-musical works, protected subject matter
duration
engravings, protected subject matter
exhibitions
formalities
fraud
importation
music publishing
music, protected subject matter
newspapers
originality
photography, protected subject matter
piracy
public performance
reciprocity
registration
renewal
sculpture, protected subject matter
societies, publishers'
translations, protection of

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