Document Type

Report

Publication Date

6-2-1905

Abstract

The origin and the occasion and the purpose of the Conference … is a general agreement that our present copyright laws are defective in definition and imperfect and perhaps inconsistent in expression. The occasion is an intimation from the Senate Committee on Patents that at the coming session of Congress it proposes to submit abill for a codification of these laws. Such a bill would naturally be drafted in the Copyright Office. If so, it would be the desire of the Copyright Office to have upon it the criticism of the various interests concerned with copyright protection. But the office sees in it also an opportunity to submit to Congress in a systematic and orderly way various suggestions for the perfection of the laws in respect in which they are claimed to be now unjust or defective, and this conference is to give expression to these suggestions. Such of them as survive discussion will be noted for the attention of Congress in connection with such a codification. We invite them and we shall try to secure fair consideration for any of them that seem obviously just or to be supported by a considerable opinion. But we would not have our abilities in the matter nor the abilities of this Conference overestimated.

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Part C

STENOGRAPHIC REPORT
of the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SESSION
of the
CONFERENCE ON COPYRIGHT

held at the New York City Club, New York, N.Y.
May 31 - June 2, 1905, inclusive.

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