Identifier: annualreportofli1901unse (find matches)
Title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Library and Information Services
Publisher: Library of Congress
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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ets and pasted in a large boundvolume. This, with accessions noted on the margin, formedthe subject catalogue down to 1897. The catalogue oncards was then begun. Direct access to the shelves is permitted to all readersprivileged to the use of the collection. THE COPYRIGHT OFFICE. The Copyright Office is a division of the Library of Con-gress and is situated on the ground floor of the Librarybuilding, south side, occupying the rooms marked O 2, P 2,Q 2, R 2, on the plan of the building. Its files occupy partof the South Stack as well as room Q 2 of the cellar. 49persons. Thorvald Solberg, Register of Copyrights. History of the Copyright Office.—The first Federal copy-right law was enacted May 31, 1790, under Article I, section8, of the Constitution, which grants to Congress the powerto legislate to protect literary property in order to promotethe progress of science and. useful arts, by securing forlimited times to authors . . . the exclusive right totheir respective writings . . . .
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Copyright Office. 279 Co: )FFIC This law required the registration of the titles of copy-right productions in the office of the clerk of the districtcourt of the State in which the author lived, which pro-vision as to the recording of the title remained unchangeduntil the enactment of the statute approved July 8, 1870,transferring the registration of title as a preliminary tocopyright protection, together with the control and preser-vation of all records and other things relating to copyrights,to the librarian of Congress. By a special provision in theappropriation act of February 19, 1897, gom§ into effectJuly 1 of the same year, the Copyright Office was put underthe immediate charge of the Register of Copyrights, who isauthorized by that act under the direction and supervisionof the Librarian of Congress, to perforin all the dutiesrelating to copyrights. The function and practice of theoffice will be explained in a subsequent paragraph. Equipment of the Copyright Office.—The Copy

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