Chapter 11. To amend sections 8 and 21 of the Copyright Act, approved March 4, 1909
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CHAP. 11.— An Act To amend sections 8 and 21 of the Copyright Act, approved March 4, 1909. December 18, 1919. [[H. R. 3754](/us/bill/66/hr/3754).] [[Public, No. 102](/us/pl/66/102).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Copyrights. That sections 8 and 21 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” approved March 4, 1909, be amended to read as follows: 369 " “Sec. 8.
That the author or proprietor of any work made theIssue of, to author, assigns, etc.Vol. 35, p. 1077, amended. subject of copyright by this Act, or his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have copyright for such work under the conditions and for the terms specified in this Act: *Provided, however*, That the copyright*Proviso*.Alien restrictions. secured by this Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign State or nation only:
“(a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled withinResidents. the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or “(b) When the foreign State or nation of which such author orOf country affording reciprocal protection. proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign State or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto.
“The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determinedProclamation. by the President of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time, as the purposes of this Act may require: *Provided, however*,*Provisos*.Protection of works produced abroad during the World War. That all works made the subject of copyright by the laws of the United States first produced or published abroad after August 1, 1914, and before the date of the President’s proclamation of peace, of which the authors or proprietors are citizens or subjects of any foreign State or nation granting similar protection for works by citizens of the United States, the existence of which shall be determined by a copyright proclamation issued by the President of the United States, shall be entitled to the protection conferred by the copyright laws of the United States from and after the accomplishment, before the expiration of fifteen months after the date of the President’s proclamation of peace, of the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States: *Provided further*,Prior republications.
That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of any right which he may have acquired by the republication of such foreign work in the United States prior to the approval of this Act. “Sec. 21. That in the case of a book first published abroad in theAd interim protection if published abroad after proclamation of peace.Vol. 35, p. 1080, amended.Time extended. English language on or after the date of the President’s proclamation of peace, the deposit in the copyright office, not later than sixty days after its publication abroad, of one complete copy of the foreign edition, with a request for the reservation of the copyright and a statement of the name and nationality of the author and of the copyright proprietor and of the date of publication of the said book, shall secure to the author or proprietor an ad interim copyright, which shall have all the force and effect given to copyright by this Act, and shall endure until the expiration of four months after such deposit in the copyright office.
” " Approved, December 18, 1919.