Word: copyrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Vestal Copyright Revision Bill was choked to death (along with much other legislation) at the filibustered end of the 71st Congress (TIME, March 16), much regret was felt by all persons interested in bringing U. S. Copyright into line with that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...
...vestal bill, as amended by the Senate, had become effective on June i, the copyright of the first (1875) edition of Science & Health would have been protected until 1945. As it now stands that crude, compromising edition of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's masterpiece will fall into the public domain in June...
Work Left Undone. The adjournment of Congress killed legislation to: 1) extend copyright privileges; 2) reduce immigration 90% for two years; 3) aid maternity and infancy welfare; 4) abolish the "lame duck" session of Congress (the Thomas filibuster was cited as a glaring example of the need for this reform); 5) build the Navy up to treaty limits; 6) dry up the capital; 7) put the U. S. into the World Court...
...Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
...Passed (185-to-34) a bill providing for automatic copyright before publication of literary, musical or artistic compositions and extending the copyright period to 50 years after the author's death; sent it to the Senate...