Chapter 743. To amend section 15 of pan Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” amended March 4, 1909
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CHAP. 743.— An Act To amend section 15 of pan Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” amended March 4, 1909.July 3, 1926.[[H. R. 10774](/us/bill/69/hr/10774).][[Public, No. 464](/us/pl/69/464).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Copyrights.Vol. 35, p. 1078, amended. That section 15 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright,” amended March 4, 1909, be amended to read as follows: " “ Sec. 15. Mechanical work, etc., of books to be done in United States. That of the printed book or periodical specified in section 5, subsections
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(b)of this Act, except the original text of a book of foreign origin in a language or languages other than English, the text of all copies accorded protection under this Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein, or, if the text be produced by lithographic process, or photo-engraving process, then by a process wholly performed within the limits of the United States, and the printing of the text and binding of the said book shall be performed within the limits of the United States; which requirements shall extend also to the illustrations within a book consisting of printed text and illustrations produced by lithographic process, or photo-engraving process, and also to separate lithographs or Exceptions.photo-engraving, except where in either case the subjects represented are located in a foreign country and illustrate a scientific work or *Proviso*.Not applicable to works for the blind, in foreign languages, etc.reproduce a work of art: *Provided, however*, That said requirements shall not apply to works in raised characters for the use of the blind, or to books of foreign origin in a language or languages other than English, or to books published abroad in the English language Works by any other than specified process.seeking ad interim protection under this Act, or to works printed or produced in the United States by any other process than those above specified in this section. " Approved, July 3, 1926.