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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.

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

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Record-ID:
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Full title
Treloar Copyright Bill: Hearing on H.R. 5976 Before the House Committee on Patents

Full title original language
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Abstract
A hearing before the Committee on Patents on A Bill H.R. 5976 for a comprehensive copyright reform.

Bibliography
Carroll, Michael. "The Struggle for Music Copyright." 57 Fla. L. Rev. 907 (2005).
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).
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Location
Washington D.C.

Year
1896

Language
English

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

Physical description
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Persons referred to
Ditson, Oliver (1811-1888)
Browne, Alexander P. (fl.1880-1896)
Dittenhoefer, Abram Jesse (1835-1919)
Draper, William Franklin (1842-1910)
Drone, Eaton Sylvester (1842-1917)
Freeman, William Capron (b.1859)
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836-1911)
Haynes, John C. (fl.1856-1897)
Irwin, May (1862-1938)
Kennedy, Harry (fl.1892)
Lowell, John (1824-1897)
McTammany, John (1845-1915)
Marzials, Theo (1850-1920)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Putnam, George Haven (1844-1930)
Raphael (1483-1529)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand (1825-1908)
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842-1900)
Treloar, William Mitchellson (1850-1935)
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)

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

Places referred to in commentary
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Legislation referred to
International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12
U.S. International Copyright Act, 1891 (Chace Act)

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

Cases referred to in commentary
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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

Institutions referred to in commentary
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Key words
abridgements
Anglo-American
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, protected subject matter
music publishing
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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Oren Bracha




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