Public Law 76–81

That

Copyrights.

35 Stat. 1083.

17 U. S. C. § 33.

section 33 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright”, approved March 4, 1909, is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 33.

That the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General are hereby empowered and required to make and enforce individually or jointly such rules and regulations as shall prevent the importation into the United States of articles prohibited importation by this Act, and may require, as conditions precedent to exclusion of any work in which copyright is claimed, the copyright proprietor or any person claiming actual or potential injury by reason of actual

Certificate of deposit to be filed.

35 Stat. 1078.

17 U. S. C. § 12.

Notice to postmasters, etc.; purpose.

or contemplated importations of copies of such work to file with the Post Office Department or the Treasury Department a certificate of the Register of Copyrights that the provisions of section 12 of this Act, as amended, have been fully complied with, and to give notice of such compliance to postmasters or to customs officers at the ports of entry in the United States in such form and accompanied by such exhibits as may be deemed necessary for the practical and efficient

35 Stat. 1082.

17 U. S. C. §§ 30, 31.

administration and enforcement of the provisions of sections 30 and 31 of this Act.”

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