Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.

Yet did the knave clear fifty or sixty pounds by subscription and selling the copyright.

They offered the collection to Mr. Murray for £20, but he declined to purchase the copyright.

They have been the property of the Theatre so long, and so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered them, inserting a speech or a whole scene, or adding a song, that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.

HOW TO OBTAIN A COPYRIGHT.

P.S.I forgot to say that I hold a copyright of old GRANNY GOOSE'S works.

No copyright is valid unless notice is given by inserting in every copy published, "Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year , by , in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington," or, at the option of the person entering the copyright, the words "Copyright, 18, by .

The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.

He generously gave up the copyright to the author in 1777, who had 200l.

Publishers freak out, because they're in the business of grabbing as much copyright as they can and hanging onto it for dear life because, dammit, you never know.

Even in 1831 he waived many of his scruples as to internal improvements in deference to public opinion, and signed the bills which made appropriations for the improvement of harbors and rivers, for the continuation of the Cumberland road, for the encouragement of the culture of the vine and olive, and for granting an extended copyright to authors.

Up to 1849 the secretary of state had the care of issuing copyrights.

Within ten days after publication of each book or other article, two complete copies must be sent prepaid, or under free labels, furnished by the Librarian, to perfect the copyright, with the address, "Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C."

John Murray had sought to revive interest in the whole bulk of Crabbe's poetry, of which he now possessed the copyright, by commissioning Richard Westall, R.A., to produce a series of illustrations of the poems, thirty-one in number, engravings of which were sold in sets at two guineas.

A sudden impulse induced Lord Byron to present the copyright of this poem also to Mr. Dallas, with the single stipulation that he would offer it for publication to Mr. Murray, who eventually paid Mr. Dallas five hundred guineas for the copyright, and the work was published in February 1814.

We copied our notice from the newspapers, where it was stated, as from the Lord Chancellor, at the Fund Dinner, that Mr. Mulready had relinquished his copyright to the picture for the benefit of the Fund, which had thus produced 1,000l.; but we thank our correspondent for his correction.

Those who know him most intimately feel no sort of hesitation in declaring, that he has again and again been heard to express regret at the earlier efforts of his muse; or reluctance in stating, at the same time, as a fact, that Mr. M., on two different occasions, endeavoured to repurchase the copyright of certain poems; but, in each instance, the sum demanded was so exorbitant, as of itself to put an end to the negotiation.

He seemed to scorn copyrights for support.

When he was preparing his biography, he published this account with the letter to Chesterfield in a small pamphlet sold at a prohibitory price, in order to secure the copyright.

I enclose a draft for the money; when paid, send the copyrights.

The temptation to treat copyright as though it came down off the mountain on two stone tablets (or worse, as "just like" real property) is deeply flawed, since, by definition, current copyright only considers the last generation of tech.

England is more liberal to our authors than we to hers, but it is only under certain strictly limited contingencies that an American can acquire copyright there.

Mr. Gladstone, I need scarcely say, was careful in his Home Rule Bill (which was denounced by thousands who never read a line of it) to withdraw copyright from the scope of action of his proposed Dublin Parliament.

I had, previously to this date, found a Mæcenas in Beverley, in the person of a learned gentleman who volunteered to foster my love of the Muses by buying the copyright of a volume of poems and publishing the same at his own expensewhich he did, poor man, without stint, and by which noble patronage of Poet's Corner verse, he must have lost money.

IBASIL TO CALVIN Copyright, 1908, By Funk & Wagnalls Company Printed in the United States of America PREFACE