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If the work is anonymous or pseudonymous, it is not obligatory to state the name of the author.
t.i.tle of book_________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ____vol.____ Price, $____. Date of publication____________ [Must be [Date when placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed.] exactly stated]
Send certificate of {_________________________________________________ registration to {_________________________________________________
NOTE.--This form is to be used only for BOOKS by CITIZENS or RESIDENTS of the United States. A separate application card must be used for each separate WORK. No registration can be made unless copies are accompanied with a properly filled out application card, statutory fee, and the required AFFIDAVIT.
--> Failure to deposit copies bars suit for infringement and, if deposit of copies is not made after ”actual notice,” involves a fine of $100, the payment of twice the value of the book, and the COPYRIGHT BECOMES VOID. (OVER)
5. U. S. TREASURY AND POST OFFICE REGULATIONS
(T. D. 31754.)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, _July 17, 1911_.
_Collectors and other officers of the customs:_
The following sections of the copyright law, approved March 4, 1909, effective July 1, 1909, together with the regulations made in pursuance thereof, are published for the information and guidance of customs officers and others concerned:
[Here follow secs. 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 18, as given in preceding pages.]
The register of copyrights is required by this act to print at periodic intervals a catalogue of the t.i.tles of articles deposited and registered for copyright, which printed catalogues, as they are issued, will be distributed to the collectors of customs of the United States and to the postmasters of all exchange offices of receipt of foreign mails.
REGULATIONS
Under the copyright act the following articles are prohibited importation:
1. Piratical copies of any work copyrighted in the United States. By the term ”piratical” is meant the printing, reprinting, publis.h.i.+ng, copying, or reproducing without authority of the copyright proprietor of any article legally copyrighted and on which the copyright is still in force.
2. Articles bearing a false notice of copyright when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States.
3. Authorized foreign reprints of books by an American author copyrighted in the United States.
4. Authorized copies of any book copyrighted in the United States not produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of section 15 of the copyright act, except such as are exempted in the said section 15 and section 31 of the act.
All books on which there is an existing copyright in the United States are prohibited importation unless produced in accordance with the manufacturing provision of section 15, whether copyrighted under this act or previous acts. (Opinion of the Attorney General, T. D. 30136, Nov. 24, 1909.)
Copyrighted books produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of section 16 of the copyright act, when exported and rebound abroad may be admitted to entry on their return to the United States.
(Opinion of the Attorney-General, T. D. 30414.)
As copyrighted books are required to be printed and bound in the United States, evidence should be required on entry that such books were exported in a bound condition and not as loose sheets, and that the printing and binding were both performed within the limits of the United States.
Imported articles found to bear a false notice of copyright will be detained and forfeiture proceedings inst.i.tuted as provided in Schedule 32.
If satisfactory evidence is not produced to the collector that such imported books were produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of section 15, or are exempt therefrom, the books will be seized and forfeiture proceedings inst.i.tuted as provided in section 32.