US Copyright Office: ar-1951

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FIFTY-FOURTHA N N U A L REPORT OF THE

REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTSFOR THE FlSCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1951

CO PY RIG HT OFFICEThe Library of Congress

W A S H I N G T O N : 95 2


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L. C. C u d No. 10-350177This report is reprinted from the

Annual Report oj the Librariun oj Congressfor the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1951


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Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . .ifty-three Years of Copyright GrowthCopyright Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .ppraisernent of Public Law 84. Eighty-first Congress

Copyright Registrations by Subject Matter Classes. Fiscal Year1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .am Bass Warner Relinquishes Office

Gestures of Good Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Acquisition of Deposits Under Sections 13 and 14 of Title 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S Code . . .roduction of Printed Cards for Copyrighted Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . .umulative Catalog of Motion Pictures. 1912-39Unesco Copyright Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Proposed Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .International Copyright Relations of the United States. June 30.

1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Interesting Copyright Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Register's Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Statement of Gross Cash Receipts. Yearly Fees. Numbers of Regis-. . . . . . . . .rations. Etc., for 5 Fiscal Years. 1947 to 1951Number of Articles Deposited During the Fiscal Years 1947 to 1951.

Inclusive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Registration by Subject Matter Classes for the Fiscal Years 1947 to

1951. Inclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Summary of Copyright Business. Fiscal Year 1951 . . . . . . . .Publications of the Copyright Office . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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'Fifty-three Years of Copyr igh t G row thNUMBER OF COPYRIGHT REGISTRATIONS, FISCAL YEARS 1898-1951


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T h e Copyright OfficeReport to the Librarian of Congress by the Register of Copyrights

SR: The Copyright Office businessand the work of the Copyright Officefor the fiscal year July 1, 1950, toJune 30, 1951, inclusive, are summarizedas follows:Copyright Business

Instead of the normal annual increase inbusiness which has continued with fewinterruptions since the establishment ofthe Copyright Office, the figures for thepast year show a decline, commencingwith the invasion of South Korea, similarto that which took place during the firstyear of World War 11. Registrationsdropped from 210,564 in fiscal 1950 to200,354 in fiscal 1951, a decline of 10,210registrations, or 4.8 percent. Th e totalrevenues were $797,960.50 as against$849,661.22, a drop in total fees appliedof $51,700.72, or 6 percent. Th e decreasewas reflected in nearly every class. (Seethe chart on the following page for registra-tions by subject matter classes.) Foreigndeposits accounted for over 40 percentof all published music registered and forover 29 percent of the books deposited.Offsetting the general decline is the factthat the number of copies of all worksselected and transferred to the collectionsof the Library increased from 192,577 to205,017. This might perhaps indicatethat fiscal 1951 saw the creation of arelatively larger number of more worth-while works of a literary, artistic, orscientific nature than had formerly beenthe case.

Appraisement of Public Law 84, Eighty-jrsl CongressThis is the amendment to the Copyright

Law, effective June 3, 1949, which estab-lished, as an alternative to the payment ofthe registration fee for foreign works, thefurnishing of a catalog card and an ad-ditional copy of the foreign work. I t also.liberalized the provisions respecting adinterim registration of books and periodicalsin English first published abroad. As aresult of these changes, foreign registra-tions, under Public Law 84, in the princi-pal classes (foreign books in foreignlanguages, foreign books in English, andforeign music) rose from 6,540 in fiscalyear 1950 to 8,511 in fiscal year 1951, anincrease of 30 percent. Foreign books inEnglish increased 43 percent, foreignbooks in foreign languages 36 percent, andforeign music 25 percent. France, Ger-many, Switzerland, and the Scandinaviancountries are the principal countries tak-ing advantage of the new provisions asregards copyright of books. Great Brit-ain, France, Italy, and the Scandinaviancountries are the principal countries takingadvantage of the new provisions as regardsforeign music.

Had Public Law. 84 not been enacted itis probable that only a fraction of theseregistrations would have been made,because of the restrictions now placed bymost foreign governments on paymentsin United States dollars. This increasein registrations, accompanied by deposits,is especially important just now when the

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Copyright RegistrationsBY SUBJECT MATTER CLASSES, FISCAL YEAR 1951


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1951 3Library is using every possible means tobuild up its collections of foreign materials.Sam Bass Warner Relinquishes O@e

On May 28, 1951, Sam Bass Warnerresigned as Register of Copyrights inorder to devote his full time to writing acomprehensive history of copyright withs&al emphasis on the development ofthe United States law. Th e need forsuch an authoritative work has long beenrecognized. For the accomplishment ofthe task, Mr. Warnex's erudition in thelaw, his energy and enthusiasm, all makehim peculiarly fitted.

Mr. Warner was appointed by Archi-bald MacLeish, then Librarian of Con-gress, and assumed office on February 1,1945. He came to the Library from theHarvard Law School, where he hadspecialized in the teaching of criminallaw.

During his tenure of office, Mr. Warnerintroduced important changes directedtoward improving operating proceduresin the Copyright Office. The necessityof preparing certificates from data sub-mitted on the applications previously inuse was eliminated by the creation of anentirely new application-certificate formmade out by the applicant himself sub-ject to authentication by the Register. Ageneral classification and organizationalstudy of the Office was also undertakenwith the result that many positions wereredescribed at levels appropriate to theirresponsibilities and more than a dozenoperating units previously reporting di-rectly to the Register were regroupedinto four divisions.

Mr. Warner's energetic and enthusiasticpersonality contributed greatly to thedaily operations of the Copyright Office.His 6 years as Register of Copyrights willstand in the history of the Library ofCongress as an outstanding period oforganizational, procedural, and staffingachievement.

Gestures of Good WillFollowing much discussion in the press,

both here and abroad, concerning thecopyright status in this country of themusical works of the composer, JeanSibelius, the Reference Division of theCopyright Office undertook the prepara-tion of a bibliography of all of the separatecopykght entries found referring to musi-cal compositions bearing the name of theFinnish genius.

The bibliography, a 92-page documentcomprising approximately 800 copyrightentries (both original registrations andrenewals) including works of original aswell as secondary authomhip, was com-pleted after 200 hours of search, compila-tion, and editing and was presented to theFinnish Government on November 21,1950. In making the presentation, theCopyright Office expressed the hope "thatit may be helpful in resolving existingmisunderstandings a s to the copyrightstatus of the great composer's works inthis country, especially in so far as thecopyrights in these works are reflectedin the records of the Copyright Office."

In response to requests received fromGerman music publishers for aid, theLibrarian of Congress authorized and theCopyright Office compiled for micro-filming the extensive copyright registra-tions (numbering about 3,000) of thesefirms. Their important music catalogshad been completely destroyed during thelast war and the Copyright Office recordsoffered the only exkting source of informa-tion for their reconstruction. Expressionsof gratitude for these cultural services werereceived from both the Finnish Govern-ment and the .German firms.Acquisition of Deposits Under Sections

13 and 14 of Title 17, U. . CodPThe Compliance Section of the Refer-

ence Division, whose duty it is to remindauthots and publishers who publish workwith a copyright notice of their obligatim


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4 REPORT OF T H E REGlSTER .OF COPYRIGHTS, 1951to register them in the Copyright Officeand, if necessary, to enforce the depositof such works, continued its endeavor toconcentrate on the acquisition of thoseworks desired by the Library of Congress.During the fiscal year the total in fees andvalue of material collected was $32,464.

More and more authors and publishenare being educated by the ComplianceSection, chiefly through correspondence,to the fact that their claims to copyrightshould be promptly registered. As evi-dence of this, a survey undertaken by theSection in August 1950, using Publishers'Weekly as a basis, showed that 93.7 percentof all books published with notice of copy-right listed in a current week's publica-tions were registered or had been depositedin the Copyright Office within 18 daysafter the stated week of publication. Thisrepresents an increase of 3.7 percent overlast year and 8 percent above the compli-ance figure for fiscal 1949.Production o f Printed Car ds for Copy-righted Motion Pictures

The Copyright Office's obligation tocatalog copyright registrations of motionpictures has made its concern with the de-velopment of cataloging rules for this im-. portant, nonbook material immediate andpressing. Since the termination of theMotion Picture Division the Office hasbeen the only Library unit actively en-gaged in the processing of these materials.In response to the needs of the Library,other Government agencies, and filmpeople generally for the development of abasic cataloging practice and for the pro-duction of printed catalog cards, the Li-brary has been engaged in developingthem. Th e Copyright Cataloging Divi-sion has actively participated in this pro-gram and will continue to contribute to it.

The production of printed cards for mo-tion pictures is expected to supply a long-felt need of agencies engaged in the pro-duction and use of motion pictures, par-

ticularly in nontheatrical fields. I t is an-ticipated that the Office will continue tomaintain a close relationship to this ac-tivity and that it will be able to makefurther valuable contributions to the pro-gram.Cumulative Catalog o f Motion Picttues,

1912-39Completion of the cataloging of more

than 50,000 entries for motion picturescopyrighted between 1912 and 1939 wasthe signal achievement of the CumulativeSection of the Copyright Cataloging Divi-sion this year. This project was begunearly in 1948. Since its inception it hashad the continuing encouragement andinterest of both film librarians and themotion-picture industry. Work in theCopyright Office and in the field will beconsiderably expedited by its convenienceas a copyright search tool.

The catalog will be entitled Motion Pic-tures, 1972-1939 and is expected to be avail-able in the autumn of 1951. I t will list bytitle over 50,000 motion pictures of alltypes in approximately 1,265 pages andwill contain a name index (claimant, pro-ducer, etc.) and a series list. I t will beissued in one edition of 2,000 copies in aformat designed to make the volume apermanent reference tool.Unesco Cop yi gh t Project

As mentioned in last year's report, thelarge number of governments replying tothe UNESCO uestionnaire concerning thedesirability of a universal copyright con-vention encouraged UNESCOo authorizefurther study of the replies by a Committeeof Experts, which met in Washington,D. C., from October 23 to November 4,1950. Experts from 13 countries andrepresentatives from the Bureau of theBerne Union and the Pan AmericanUnion took an active part in the delibera-tions. Nine other countries were repre-sented by official observers. The United


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1951 5States experts were Luther H. Evans,Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., and JohnSchulman. Arthur Fisher acted in thecapacity of technical adviser. Dr. Evanswas elected chairman, and following hisdeparture for Paris on UNESCO usiness,Judge Plinio Bolla of Switzerland presidedas acting chairman over the remainingsessions.

The principle of national treatment wastaken as the basis for the new convention.It was agreed that there should be safe-guards protecting existing internationalcopyright arrangements, particularly inthe case of the Berne Convention.

Most significant from the United Statespoint of view was a recommendation thatwould extend international copyright pro-tection, as regards member countries re-quiring formalities, to any published workentitled to claim protection under theconvention by affixing to the copies of thework from and after its first publicationthe symbol @, accompanied by the nameof the author, or other proprietor and theyear of first publication of the work.This provision would not prevent anycountry from imposing additional require-ments on works published by its ownnationals or on any work first publishedwithin its own borders. Th e proposal onnotice and formalities made by theAmerican experts was regarded by manyof the other experts as a major contribu-tion since it both indicated the willingnessof the United States to relax its strictnotice and registration requirements in-sofar as foreign works are concerned andalso brought about the prospect of asolution of the problem of notice oncopyrighted works.

Twenty-four countries responded andsent 30 specialists to a Paris meeting, theUnited States being represented by LutherH. Evans, John Schulman, and AbrahamL. Kaminstein of the Copyright Office.From June 18 to 26, 1951, these specialistsmet as "the Copyright Committee," a

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special working group of the Sixth Sessionof UNESCO's eneral Conference. Basingtheir work on the Washington recom-mendations of the Committee of Experts,the Paris copy-right committee prepared atext of the proposed universal treaty.Th e draft of the proposed treaty will nowbe submitted to the governments and theywill be invited to attend a formal diplo-matic conference, which will probably beheld in Geneva, Switzerland, in the sum-mer or fall of 1952. The adherence of theUnited States to such a convention wouldmark an epoch in the international copy-right relations of this country, which hasnot heretofore been a party to any copy-right convention extending beyond theWestern Hemisphere.

Countries with which the United Stateshas copyright relations are shown in themap on the following pages. Th e areasshaded in gray represent the countrieswith which the United States has estab-lished copyright relations. The whiteareas are countries with which the UnitedStates has no copyright agreements. Th ecross-barred areas indicate the status ofcopyright relations with this country isuncertain. Th e map is only indicative ofthe treatment to be accorded works origi-nating in a particular area. For moreprecise data as to international copyrightrelations of the U. S. A., see summary byTreaty Affairs, Department of State, andoriginal documents listed therein.Proposed Legislation

Activity in international copyright rela-tions by no means implies inactivity on thedomestic legislative front. Two bills ofmajor importance were submitted toCongress. H. R. 3589, introduced onApril 6, 1951, would fill a lacuna in exist-.ing law by granting recording and per-forming rights in nondramatic literaryworks in addition to those now provided'for in the copyright law. H. R. &59,introduced on May 10, 1951, would elim-


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International Copyright Relations

- - - - -t h e U 7 r i t e d S t a t e r has . c o p j r r i g h t r r . l a t i o n r

Austria and posusrionaBelgium GreeceBrazil GuatemalaClnada Hai t iChile Honduras PhilippinesChina Hungary PolandColombia Ireland PortugalCosta Rica Israel RumaniaCubaCzechoslovakiaD a n z ~ gDenmarkDominican Republic. Neth c~.la nds Tha'iland (Siam)Ecuador and posrssions Tun is Norr.-Th is map rhwrld ,301 be taken an defininy thec!=ct~ eog r ahical bounrlaricr ol any country or th eEl Salvadot Ne w Zealand thereofasof m yI c i f i ~ d a t e o rh c a p p l i c r t i o n o ~ ~ ; : i ~ :, Finland Nicaragua relations am to ,uc~porsc!rions. See "InternationalCopy-France Norway right Rclatio6s 91 tine Un1t.d State of America" issurd by


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of the United States,June 30, 1951


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8 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1951inate completely all manufacturing re-quirements with respect to works offoreign origin.H. R. 2464 and 2465, introduced onFebruary 7, 1951, are also of specialinterest. Bills of a similar nature havebeen introduced in previous Congresses.H. R. 2464 would secure copyright inacoustic recordings, a class of material notheretofore acceptable for copyright regis-tration. H. R. 2465 provides for therepeal of the so-called "juke-box" exemp-tion contained in section 1(e) of the Copy-right Law. S. 7553, introduced on May 28,1951, qualifies repeal of this "juke-box"exemption by provision for certain royaltypayments for the performance of copy-righted musical compositions on coin-operated machines.H. R. 3899, an omnibus bill, includingcertain corrections in the official text ofTitle 17 of the United States Code, waspassed by the House and referred to theSenate. House Jo id Resolution 578 becamePublic Law 741 of the Eighty-first Con-gress and makes Cannon's Procedure In thcHouse o Representatives subject to copyrightby the author. Similar legislation waspassed in several earlier Congresses. S.396 would prohibit copyright in anypictorial representation of Jesus Christ.Interesting Copyright Cases

The following decisions of the UnitedStates courts involving copyright areamong those made during the past yearwhich present features of more than usualinterest.

In the case of Stein el al., doing businessas Reglor of California v. Expcrt LampCompany, 96 F. Supp. 97, 88 USPQ 305(D. C. N. D. 111. E. Div., Jan. 23, 1951),the copyright claim in an artistic statuetteto be used as a lamp base was held to beinvalid on the ground that such use madeit the subject of design patent rather thancopyright. The invalidity of the copy-

right was affirmed on appeal 188 F. (2d)611, 89 US PQ 416 (7th Cir., May 2,1951). This case raises a very importantquestion as to whether functional purposemay not destroy the copyrightable charac-ter of a work of art.An interesting opinion, Leigh v. Barn-hart et al., 96 F. Supp. 194, 89 USPQ 307(D. C. D. N. J., March 15, 1951), holdsthat when a reproduction of a copyrightedpainting is published in a magazine with-out a copyright notice, a person who copiesthe reproduction without knowledge of thecopyright in the original is an innocentinfringer. It further held that the copy-right of the magazine did not extend to thereproduction of plaintiff's work of art sincethe magazine, as licensee of the copyrightin the work of art, was not the proprietorof the reproduction within the meaning ofthe Copyright Law.

In the case of Amsttrdam trading as Frank-lin Survey Co. v. Triangle Publications, IIIG.,93 F. Supp. 79,87 US PQ 90 (D. C. E. D.Pa., Sept. 25, 1950), another type of gra-phic work, a map embodying a verylarge amount of research was held notsubject to copyright where all informationcontained on the map had been copiedfrom other maps. Th e district court wasof the opinion that copyright protection isavailable for a map only when some of theinformation conveyed has been obtainedby the map maker going into the field, ob-taining himself the information there, andthen transcribing it into a map. Thisopinion was affirmed by the Court ofAppeals of the Third Circuit on May 25,1951 (189 F. (2d) 104, 89 USPQ 468).

The case of Security-First National Bank ofLos Angeles v. Republic Pictures Corporation,97 I?. Supp. 360, 89 USP Q 231 (D. C. S.D. Calif. Cent. Div., April 26, 1951), is ofimportance as holding for the first timethat proceedings to foreclose a mortgageon a copyright must be brought in aFederal rather than a State court. It was


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1951 9also held that the Federal court may pre-scribe the method of foreclosure, in viewof the silence of the Copyright Act.

The case of G. Ricordi @ Company v. Para-mount Pictures, Inc., 189 F. (2d) 469 (2d Cir.,May 8, 1951), affirming in part andmodifying an earlier district court opinion92 F. Supp. 537 (D. C. S. D. N. Y., June8, 1950), is of interest, both as involvingPuccini's well-known opera, Madame But-terfy, and as considering renewal, operatic,and motion-picture rights in the presenceof a multiplicity of adaptations of a singleoriginal work, a novel, of which dramaticand operatic versions were subsequentlyproduced.

The case of White v. Kimmell et al., 94F. Supp. 502, 87 USPQ 407 (D. C. S. D.Calif. Cent. Div., Dec. 6, 1950), holdsthat limited circulation of a mimeographedmanuscript does not amount to publica-tion destroying the common law literary

property in the manuscript. A peculiarcircumstance in this case was the allegationof authorship by a denizen of the spiritworld, a "ghost" writer in the most literalsense.Register's Conference

On an average of twice a week, or asfrequently as occasion demands, the Reg-ister, Assistant Register, Senior Attorneyand the four division chiefs meet in theRegister's Office as a Register's Conference.This group discusses matters affectingthe administration of the Copyright Law,including new and important court deci-sions, pending or suggested legislation,changes in procedure and policy, budgetconsiderations, and other problen~sperti-nent to the Copyright Office. The collec-tive judgment of this group is of valuableassistance in the formulation of CopyrightOffice policy.

STATEMENT OF CROSS CASH RECEIPTS, YEARLY FEES, NUMBERS OF REGISTRATIONS, ETC., FOR 6 FISCAL YEARSIncreases inregistrations

28,0717,906. . . . . . . . . . . .9,374. . . . . . . . . . . .

Fiscal Year

1947 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1948.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1949.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1950.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total . ...........

Decreases inregistrations

. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .36,931. . . . . . . . . . . .10,210

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gross receipts

$471,119.41525,510.25889,105.92879,169.17847,399.13

3,612,303.88

Yearly feesapplied

$442,626.10487,475.20834,738.05849,661.22797,960.50

3,412,461.07

Number ofregistrations

230,215238,121201,190210,564200,354

1,080,444


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10 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS. 1951NUMBER OF ARTICLE3 DE PO Sm D DURINO THE FISCAL YEARS 1947 TO 111. INCLVBNE

1949.....0, 508

67, 8543, 815

92, 1772, 644

595-----5, 416108, 3741, 0365, 720

58, 0874, 6274, 349

4691, 6031, 891

35, 5771, 3302, 111-----20, 590

Clam

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Subject matter of copyright

Boob:(a) Printed in the United Stat a:Books proper ..................Pamphlets, leaflets, etc. . . . . . . . . .Contributions to newspapas and

paiodicals ................Total ......................

(b) Printed abroad in a foreign Ian-uage .......................

(c) English boob rcgiatercd for ad in-terim copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Total ..........................Puiodicala............................Lectures, 4umona, etc ..................

Dramatic or dramatico-musical compasi-tions ...............................

Musical compositions ...................M a p ................................Worb of art, models or d&gnr ..........Reproductions of work of art ............Drawings or plastic wo rb of a scientific or

technical character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Photographs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F'riitr, labela and pictorial illustrationr....Motion-picture photoplays ..............Motion pictw- not photoplap ..........Total ..........................

1947

19, 80669, 880

4, 41094, 096

3, 97071 3

98, 779116, 680972

7, 05679, 4283, 5265, 4541, 0643, 0142, 982

31, 8481, 3122, 741

354, 856

1950

22, 64868, 770

4, 43795, 855

5, 8931, 571

103, 319110, 8721, 0084, 969

65, 7913, 2735, 904

6201, 9471, 939

35, 2331, 5282, 141

338, 544

1948

19, 57271, 594

5, 96397, 129

2, 545683

100, 357119, 3981, 2636, 659

85, 3592, 8555, 055

6092, 3362, 945

34, 5631, 2541, 914

364, 567

1951

22, 54462, 370

3, 40888, 322

6, 5022, 235

97, 059110.258693

4, 60460, 665

4, 0375, 034

8721, 4841, 302

31, 0951, 6632, 461

321, 227


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REP OR T OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS. 1951 11REOISIRA'IION BY SUBJECT U A m R CLASSES FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1917 TO 111. INCLUSXVB

Class

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RRR

1949.....0, 25433, 9294, 140-----8, 3232, 644

595-----1, 562

54, 1631, 0365, 15948, 2102, 3143, 2812391, 0631, 13413, 2334, 358

6671, 09613, 675-----01, 190

1950

11, 32334, 3834, 438

50, 1443, 7101, 040

54, 89455, 4361, 0074, 42752, 3091, 6384, 0133261, 3161, 14313, 3204, 309

7821, 113........................14, 531210, 564

1948

9, 78635, 7975, 963

51, 5462, 545

68354, 77459, 6991, 2636, 12872, 3391, 4563, 9383091, 6191, 84410, 6196, 686

63299 92015, 796238, 121

Subject matter of copyright

Books:(a) Printed in the United Stata:Boob proper ..................Pamphlets, ledeta, etc..........Contributions to newspapers and

periodicals................Total......................(b) Printed abroad in a foreign lan-guage ......................

(c) Engliuh books rcgiatercd for adinterim copyright............

Total..........................Periodicals (numtcn) ..................Lecturca, camonr, addrcaecd.............Dramatic or dramatico-musical compo-

sition8..............................Musical cornpitiom...................................................aps ........orks of art,models or designs..Reproductioru of works of ar t............Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or

technical charactu ...................Photcgraphs......................................ommercial prints and labelsPrinta and pictorial illustrations .........Motion~picturephotoplaya.. ...........Motion pictum not photoplaya ..........Renewals of commercial printr and lab& ....................cnewalsofaUdassa........................otal

1951

11, 27231, 1993, 408

45, 8793, 5361, 118

50, 53355, 129693

3, 99248, 3191, 9923, 42845395377 011, 981

3, 5908351, 314

16, 372200.354

1947

9;90334, 9404, 400

49, 2433, 970

71253, 92558, 3409726, 45668, 7091, 7794, 0445402, 1471, 8389, 6746, 506

6661, 4182113, 180230, 215


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12 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS. 1951SUMMARY OF COPYRIGHT BUSINESS. FISCAL YEAR I951

Balance on hand July 1. 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $161.259.95Groes receipts July 1. 1950. to June 30. 1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847.399 . 13-Total to be accounted for . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1.008.659.08. Refunded ....................................................... $ 35.431.91. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .hecks returned unpaid 468 .50

Deposited as earned fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807.673.50Balance carried over to July 1. 1951:

Fees earned in June 1951 but not deposited until July 1951. $64,240.00Unfinished business balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.246.65Deposit accounts balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.598.52

165,085.171.008. 659. 8

Fees AppliedRegistrations for prints and labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. 981 at 6.00 71.886.00Registrations for published works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122. 337 at 4.00 489. 348.00Registrations for unpublished works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 061 at 4.00 164.244.00Registrations for renewals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 371 at 2.00 32.742.00. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .egistrations for renewals ' 1 at 1.00 1.00

Total number of registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 191. 751Fees for registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758,221.00Fees for recording assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.206 .50Fees for indexing transfers of proprietorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.834.00Fees for notices of user recorded .................................... 2.702.00Fees for certified documents . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.325.00Fees for searches made ............................................ 8.672.00

39,739.50

Total fees earned ...................................................... 797.960 . 501 Excludes 8. 603 registrations made under Public Law 84.Respectfully submitted. ARTHUR ISHER

Reg i s t e r of Co p y r i g h t sWASHINGTON..C.October 15. 1951


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