The law of motion pictures (1918)

502 THE LAW OF MOTION PICTURES work, copyright is secured by deposit with claim of copyright of the title and description of such motion picture, together with not less than two prints from different sections of the complete motion picture.24 3. Where the motion picture, whether it be a photoplay or a work other than a photoplay is sought to be copyrighted as a published work, copyright is secured by publication of the motion picture with the notice of copyright as provided for by the Act.25 It is a condition precedent to the maintenance of an action for infringement of a work, the copyright in which has been secured by publication, to deposit in the Copy II. Motion pictures other than photo-plays reproduced in copies for sale. When the work has been published (i. e., placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed) with the required notice of copyright upon each copy, promptly after such publication deposit in the Copyright Office two complete copies of the work, accompanied by an application for recording the claim to copyright in the published work. For this purpose use application form “M 1,” which will be furnished by the Copyright Office upon request. Also send with the application a post office or express money order to pay the statutory fee of SI. 00. In all cases the money order remitting the registration fee should be made payable to the “Register of Copyrights.” Send the title, description, prints, copies, application and fee in one parcel, addressed to the Register of Copyrights, Washington, D. C. If any motion picture has been registered as a work “not reproduced in copies for sale,” it must nevertheless be registered a second time if it has been afterward published. Thorvald Solberg, Register of Copyrights. 24 Copyright Act of 1909, Section eleven. 25 Copyright Act of 1909, Section twelve. N. Y. Times v. Star Co. (1912), 195 Fed. (C. C.) 110.