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THE LAW OF MOTION PICTURES
proprietor thereof the exclusive right to publish, copy and vend the photoplay; to make any other version of the motion picture, to novelize it, to perform it publicly, and to make a transcription thereof in whole or in part so that it may be performed upon the stage with living actors.22
Section 137. — How copyright is secured.
Under the present Copyright Act a motion picture may be copyrighted in one of three ways :
1. Where it is sought to be copyrighted as an unpublished work and the motion picture is a photoplay, copyright is secured by the deposit in the office of the Register of Copyright with claim of copyright of the title and description of such photoplay, together with one print taken from each scene or act.23
22 Section one, Subd. (a) (b) (d), of the Copyright Act of 1909.
23 Copyright Act of 1909, Section eleven. ,
MOTION PICTURES
DIRECTIONS FOR SECURING REGISTRATION UNDER THE AMENDATORY COPYRIGHT ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912.
The amendment of the Copyright Act, approved August 24, 1912, provides for obtaining copyright for two new classes of works, namely:
Class “1,” “Motion-picture
photo-plays”; and class “m,” “Motion pictures other than photo-plays.”
In order to secure registration of claims to copyright for such works the following steps should be taken in compliance with the express provisions of the Act cited.
MOTION-PICTURE PHOTOPLAYS
1 . Motion-picture photo-plays not reproduced in copies for sale.
Deposit in the Copyright Office, Washington, D. C.