Document Type
Excerpt
Publication Date
6-30-1905
Abstract
"The existing copyright laws of the United States are admittedly imperfect and confused, difficult for the courts to interpret, and impossible for the Copyright Office to administer to the satisfaction of its clients. A similar, though less flagrant condition of the laws relating to trade-marks led to the appointment by Congress of a Commission to revise and codify them. Similar action has been urged to deal with copyright. The experience of the committees of Congress concerned with these subjects led them to believe, however, that as effective results would be achieved more promptly, and at less cost, by conference and agreement among the various interests particularly suffering from defects in the present laws and likely to benefit in a direct and practical way by the correction of them."
– Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
Recommended Citation
United States Congress, "Excerpt from Report of the Librarian of Congress for fiscal year ending June 30, 1905" (1905). Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909. 15.
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/copyrightactof1909/15
Comments
Part M: miscellaneous comments and statements
Item M6–16