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THE LAW OF MOTION PICTURES
If the author or proprietor of the work wishes to secure the copyright in his own name he may do so by placing the proper notice of copyright immediately after the title of his work and by depositing, promptly after publication, two copies of the periodical or newspaper in which his work is contained together with an application for copyright registration, and the required fee, in the office of the Register of Copyrights.53
Finally, it must be borne in mind that if the publisher is not given the right to copyright the work contained in his periodical or newspaper, though he has been given the right to publish such work, the work -will not be protected by a copyright secured upon the entire publication by the proprietor of the periodical or newspaper, and the work will fall into the public domain.
In that event any motion picture producer may use the work without securing the consent of the publisher, or the author or proprietor of the work.54
23 Copyright Act of 1909, Sections 9, 10 and 12; Rules and Regulations for Registration of Claims to Copyright, Section 33.
24 Mifflin v. White — Mifflin v. Dutton (1903), 190 U. S. 260-265; 23 Sup. Ct. 769-771. The publication of a story in a magazine, the ownership of such story remaining in the author, and the publisher not being the agent of the author in securing copyright, constituted a dedication of the work. The magazine
proprietor in copyrighting the magazine, secures copyright only in those parts of the magazine which belong to him or for the owners of which he is acting as agent. The fact that the work was published in serial form and subsequently combined in one complete work and such complete work entered in the copyright office did not validate the copyright. See also: Holmes v. Hurst (1899), 174 U. S. 82; 19 Sup. Ct. 606.
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