Chapter 194. To amend section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights
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CHAP. 194.— An Act To amend section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Copyrights.[R. S., sec. 4965, p. 959. amended](/us/rs/t/s4965/p959).Vol. 26, p. 1109. That section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4995. If any person, after the recording of the title of anyPenalty for violations of copyright of compositions, prints, etc. map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving, or photograph, or chrome, or of the description of any painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and executed as a work of the tine arts, as provided by this Act, shall, within the term limited, contrary to the provisions of this Act, and without the consent of the proprietor of the copyright first obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more witnesses, engrave, etch, work, copy, print, publish, dramatize, translate, or import, either in whole or in part, or by varying the main design, with intent to evade the law, or, knowing the same to be so printed, published, dramatized, translated, or imported, shall sell or expose to sale any copy of such map or other article, as aforesaid, he shall forfeit to the proprietor all the plates on which the same shall be copied, and every sheet thereof, either copied or printed, and shall further forfeit one dollar for everyAmount. sheet of the same found in his possession, either printing, printed, copied, published, imported, or exposed for sale; and in case of a painting, statue, or statuary, he shall forfeit ten dollars for every copy of the same in his possession, or by him sold or exposed for sale: *Provided, however*,*Provisos*.Photographs.
That in case of any such infringement of the copyright of a photograph made from any object not a work of tine arts, the sum to be recovered in any action brought under the provisions of this section shall be not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and: *Provided, further*, That in case of any such infringement of thePainting or works of fine arts. copyright of a painting, drawing, statue, engraving, etching, print, or model or design for a work of the fine arts or of a photograph of a work of the tine arts, the sum to be recovered in any action brought through the provisions of this section shall be not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than ten thousand dollars.
One-half of allDivision of penalty. the foregoing penalties shall go to the proprietors of the copyright and the other half to the use of the United States.” " Approved, March 2, 1895.