his agents or
employees; (2) in the case of any work enumerated in the
classification given before, except a painting, statue or sculpture,
one dollar for every infringing copy; (3) in the case of a lecture,
sermon or address, fifty dollars for every infringing delivery; (4) in
the case of dramatic or dramatico-musical or a choral or orchestral
composition, one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for
every subsequent infringing performance; in the case of other musical
compositions, ten dollars for every infringing performance; all
infringing copies and devices must also be delivered up for
destruction. The act gives full control over his compositions to a
musical composer, and the right to make any arrangement or setting of
it, or of the melody of it, in any system of notation or form of
record from which it may be read or reproduced. His right to control
the reproduction of his music by mechanical instruments is restricted
(1) to cover only music published and copyrighted after the act went
into effect; (2) to include a musical composition by a foreign
composer only in the case of a citizen of a foreign state that grants
to citizens of the United States similar rights; (3) where the owner
of a musical copyright has permitted the use of his work upon parts of
instruments serving to reproduce the composition mechanically,
permission for a similar use of such work must be accorded to any
other person on the payment of a fixed royalty of two cents on each
part manufactured. The act makes a clear distinction between the
property in the copyright and that in the material object representing
the copyright, and enacts that the sale or conveyance of the material
object shall not of itself constitute a transfer of the copyright.
Transfer of copyright in the United States is to be effected by an
instrument in writing signed by the proprietor of the copyright, or
the copyright may be bequeathed by will. Assignment of copyright
executed in a foreign country must be acknowledged by the assignor
before a consular officer of the United States. Every assignment of
copyright must be recorded in the copyright office within three
calendar months after its execution in the United States or within six
months without the limits of the United States. The importation into
the United States is forbidden of any piratical copies of a
copyrighted book or of any co