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THE NEW VESTAL COPYRIGHT BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE House January 13 passed by a vote
of 185 ayes to thirty-four nays the Vestal
copyright bill (H. R. 12549) amending and
consolidating th.e acts respecting copyright
and permitting the United States to enter the
International Copyright Union. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
Representativie Busby (Democrat), of Hous-
ton, Miss., and Stafford (Republican), of Mil-
waukee, Wis., led the opposition to the meas-
ure during its consideration in the House,
both of these members offering numerous
amendments, several of which were adopted
along with numerous committee amendments.
The reading of the bill for amendments,
which was begun during the latter part of
the second session of the present Congress,
was completed at the close of the day Janu-
ary 12, but the vote on the measure with
adopted amendments was withheld until the
beginning of the session on January 13. (A
discussion of the provisions of the bill, as
outlined by its sponsors, appears in the issue
of January 13.)
Little Change Made
Representative Vestal (Republican), of An-
derson, Ind., author of the bill and chairman
of the House Committee on Patents, which
was in charge of the bill, stated that none
of the amendments included in the measure
as it was passed by the House materially
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changes the measure as reported out of the
committee.
One of the adopted amendments would pro-
vide that there shall he no charge for royalty
where radio sets are not used for any other
purpose than incidental to the entertainment.
"In other words," it is explained by Repre-
sentative Reid (Republican), of Aurora, 111.,
author of the amendment, "a hotel has a re-
ceiving set and makes a service charge, or if
a service charge is made in any other way,
the author would get his -royalty." This was
the only major amendment agreed to on June
28, 1930, which was left in the bill as it final-
ly passed the House.
During the reading of the bill for amend-
ments January 12 an amendment was adopted
striking out the section providing that in the
case of posthumous work the term of copy-
right shall be fifty years.
A committee amendment also agreed to
would provide the term of any copyright in
existence would be for a period of not less
than fifty-six years.
Upon agreement by the House to an amend-
ment offered by Representative Clark (Re-
publican), of Baltimore, Md., the following
section was stricken from the bill: "Section
27. The Supreme Court of the United States
shall prescribe such rules and regulations as
may be necessary for practice and procedure
in any action, suit or proceeding instituted
for infringement under the provision of this
act."
Includes Piano Rolls
Another amendment included in the bill as
is passed struck out a section which would
eliminate from classes of matter recognized
as subject to copyright phonographic records,
perforated rolls and similar contrivances
which mechanically record sounds for pur-
poses other than public performances, ex-
hibition or transmission.
Another of the amendments adopted was
that imposing a fine on persons who wilfully
and maliciously take over anything already
copyrighted for personal gain.
SWIFT & CO. ANNOUNCE
NEW CHORUS CONTEST
The eleventh annual competition in music
composition for a prize of $100 offered by
Swift & Co. Male Chorus, of Chicago, is
now announced. This will be for the best
musical setting of "Song of the Winds," by
Catherine Parmenter. It must be written
for a chorus of men's voices with piano ac-
companiment and by a composer who is a
resident of the United States. Also, the com-
position must sing well and be kept within
a reasonable musical compass. Parts may be
doubled at pleasure.
The jury of award will be D. A. Clip-
pinger, 617-18 Kimball Bldg., Chicago, and
February, 1931
compositions must be in his hands on or
before June 15, 1931. The award will be
made July 1, 1931, I. W. Prosser, Stanley
Seder.
DRIVE ON SONG PIRATES
STARTED IN MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE,
WIS.—Another
drive
has
been started here to stop pirating of copy-
righted songs, and has resulted in a number
of arrests. One of the men arrested in the
campaign, Abe Marks, 32, a news vender,
has been charged by Federal men with sell-
ing copies of "Hollywood's Latest Song Hits,"
a collection of the works of popular and
college songs printed without permission of
the copyright owners. Several hundred copies
were confiscated.
Information that 25,000 copies have been
printed here has reached Federal authorities,
who are seeking the persons believed to be
backing the project here.
New Berlin Numbers
The successful songs now being featured
by Irving Berlin, Inc., namely "Reaching for
the Moon" and "The Little Things in Life,"
were originally written for a musical playlet,
"Reaching for the Moon," which, however,
was adapted to the screen as a straight play
now appearing at th.e Criterion Theatre, New
York. The numbers are therefore being fea-
tured as individual songs.
The Awakening!
At last the public is waking up. Reckless
spenders are beginning to place some value
on nickels and dimes. This undoubtedly ac-
counts for the record breaking sales Century
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