Public Law 54–392

Copyrights.

That section forty-nine hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

“Sec. 4963.

Penalty for inserting, selling, or importing article falsely marked as copyright.

Every person who shall insert or impress such notice, or words of the same purport, in or upon any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving or photograph, or other article, whether such article be subject to copyright or otherwise, for which he has not obtained a copyright, or shall knowingly issue or

R. S., sec. 4963, p. 959, amended.

sell any article bearing a notice of United States copyright which has not been copyrighted in this country; or shall import any book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph or other article bearing such notice of copyright or words of the same purport, which is not copyrighted in this country, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, recoverableFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 392–395. 1897. one-half for the person who shall sue for such penalty and one-half to the use of the United States; and the importation into the United

Importation forbidden.

States of any book, chromo, lithograph, or photograph, or other article bearing such notice of copyright, when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States, is prohibited; and the circuit courts

Injunctions.

of the United States sitting in equity are hereby authorized to enjoin the issuing, publishing, or selling of any article marked or imported in violation of the United States copyright laws, at the suit of any person complaining of such violation: Provided, That this Act shall not apply

Proviso.

Prior importations not affected.

to any importation of or sale of such goods or articles brought into the United States prior to the passage hereof.”

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Sec. 2.

That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing

Repeal.

provision be, and the same arc hereby, repealed.