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COPYRIGHT AND THE COPYRIGHTED STORY 131 laws to that effect. All you have to do is to register your work to give notice that this is what you claim protection for." Now you can give your work to the world through publication, and if anyone infringes your rights you have a clean cut set of laws exactly defining your rights, but first you must publish that work or "dedicate it to the public" as the law reads, and next you must give to the copyright office one or more copies, accord- ing to the classification of the article, and say in effect "This is what I claim protection for." If you claim the copyright protection without registering the article then you not only have no protection, since you cannot prove in law that you wanted to protect it, but you are liable to a fine for having claimed copyright without having actually copy- righted the article. You can copyright a book, because you have printed that in copies for sale, but you cannot copyright the manuscript of a book because that is not offered to the public but is offered to a publisher in the hope that he will print it and offer it to the public for you. Your status is precisely that of the author of a book. If you print your photoplay and offer copies for sale, you can claim copy- right on the book as a book and the book copyright protects you from any sort of infringement. No one but you or a person authorized by you, can make a photoplay production of that pub- lished book. If you photograph your story you can copyright it as a photoplay either as "reproduced in copies for sale" or "not re- produced in copies for sale," and no one can make a photoplay from your script or turn it into a book or a dramatic play. But until you have published that photoplay either as a printed book or a photographic film, you are not entitled the protection that is offered published works. Mr. Thorvald Solberg, the Register of Copyrights, is one of the most efficient servants in Government employ in that he is con- stantly striving to give the fullest and most complete service his department can be made to afford. Twice he has urged upon the Congressional Committee that the manuscript photoplay be admitted to copyright; not that he feels that copyright protection should be needed, but because so many have sought it. Each time the request has been refused and probably will be refused by suc- cessive Congresses if for no other reason than that the unpub- lished manuscript is as fully protected by common law as is the published work by Copyright Law. Most authors seem to think that if they could put "Copy- righted" on their scripts it would stop possible thieves. Some of them do announce their work as having been copyrighted when