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          Richard Rogers Bowker

  COPYRIGHT: ITS HISTORY AND ITS LAW.

  THE ARTS OF LIFE.
  OF BUSINESS.
  OF POLITICS.
  OF RELIGION.
  OF EDUCATION.

       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

         BOSTON AND NEW YORK




             COPYRIGHT

       ITS HISTORY AND ITS LAW

        BEING A SUMMARY OF THE
  PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF COPYRIGHT
       WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
     THE AMERICAN CODE OF 1909 AND
        THE BRITISH ACT OF 1911

                 BY

        RICHARD ROGERS BOWKER




         BOSTON AND NEW YORK
       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
     The Riverside Press Cambridge
                1912




   COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY R. R. BOWKER

        ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
         FOR ALL COUNTRIES

       _Published March 1912_




FOREWORD


{Sidenote: Copyright progress}

The American copyright code of 1909, comprehensively replacing all previous
laws, a gratifying advance in legislation despite its serious restrictions
and minor defects, places American copyright practice on a new basis. The
new British code, brought before Parliament in 1910, and finally adopted in
December, 1911, to be effective July 1, 1912, marks a like forward step for
the British Empire, enabling the mother