Identifier: juliuscahnsoffic00cahn (find matches)
Title: Julius Cahn's official theatrical guide.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Cahn, Julius
Subjects: Theaters Motion picture theaters
Publisher: New York : Publication Office, Julius Cahn
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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icalcomposition is fully protected, and that those en-gaged in the tjnafrical rii.«inti as actors,actresses, managers of companies or managers ofhouses or proprietors thereof, if they desire toavoid unnecessary annoyance and expense -will re-spect the rights of such authors, whether the samebe claimed by copyright or under the protection ofthe Common Law. In cases where contracts have been made or per-mission legally granted for the rights to producea musical or dramatic composition upon the pay-ment of royalties to the author or his authorizedagent, or to the owner of the manuscript or copy-right or his agent, the Courts have invariably uponthe request of the parties entitled thereto enjoinedthe further production, in case the royalties havenot been paid pursuant to the written agreementbetween the parties. It is therefore advisable that every manager ofa theatrical company producing royalty payingplays insist upon receipts, so that he may be able XXXIX iw3 *B$^s^**S25&&*^ n
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WM. H. CRANE DIRECTION CHARLES FROHMAN XL COPYRIGHT AND COMMON LAW PROTECTION—CoMiuue 1. to protect himself at any time against the injunc-tion for failure to pay the royalties which hadaccrued under the contract had been paid. • ••**** Here follow the K e vised Statutes of theLnited States of America, concerning musi-cal and dramatic compositions, as to obtain-ing the copyright and the rights whichaccrue under such copyrights: SEC. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, orproprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic ormusical composition, engraving, cut, print, or pho-tograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting,drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of modelsor designs intended to be perfected as works ofthe fine arts, and the executors, administrators, orassigns of any such person shall, upon complyingwith the provisions of this chapter, have the soleliberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, com-pleting, copying, executing, finishing, and vendingthe same; AND IN THE CAS

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