...of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: ' ' SEC. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any...photograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chrpmo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts,...

...author entitled to a copyright. The statutes of the United States give to the author, inventor, designor or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or...engraving, cut, print or photograph, or negative thereof, painting, drawing, chromo, statue and of a model or design intended to be perfected as a work of fine...

...1873, as amended by the act of June 18, 1874, as amended by the act of March 3, 1891, provides that the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any...negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors,...

...person shall, within the term limited, print, reprint, publish, copy, or finish any book, manuscript, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving,...photograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting or drawing, chromo, statue, or statuary, written, composed, invented, designed, or made by a nonresident...

...person shall, within the term limited, print, reprint, publish, copy, or finish any book, manuscript, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving,...photograph, or negative thereof, or of a painting or drawing, chromo, statue, or statuary, written, composed, invented, designed, or made by a nonresident...

...exists, pertinent to the present inquiry and necessary to quote, follows: Section 495-2 (as amended). "The author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any...statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to he perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors, administrators, or assigns of any such person...

...the statute. The terms of these acts are very similar to those of the English law, and provide that the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any...of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, etc., being a citizen of the United States or a resident therein, or a citizen of any State which grants...

...The receipts of the Patent Office for 1903 were $1,642,201, being $193,556 in excess of expenditures. inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map,...thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts. Copyrights are issued...

...copyright law (to which some amendments were added in 1874). permitting any citizen of the United States who shall be the " author, inventor, designer, or...or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or pho- absence of international copyright was tograph or negative thereof, or a painting, "alike injurious...

...when this act shall take effect. SEC. 86. And be it further enacted, That any citizen of the United States, or resident therein, who shall be the author,...proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composi tion, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing,...