...execute, and finish it if it be a model or design for a work of art" In the older Acts the phrase was "models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts," ie, works used solely for aesthetic or ornamental purposes, in contrast to artistic designs for articles...

...1873, as amended by the act of June 18, 1874, as amended by the act of March 3, 1891, provides that the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any...negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the tine arts, and the executors,...

...of the Revised Statutes be, nud the same is hereby, amended so as to read us follows : "SEC. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts, and 1 lie executors, administrators, or assigns of any sm.'h person shall, upon complying with the provisions...

...shall be under the control of the librarian of Congress," and that no one could claim a copyright upon any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, without depositing in the mail, addressed to the Librarian of Congress, two copies of the same within...

...photographs and negatives thereof in 1865.12 The Act of 1870 defined copyrightable subject matter as: ". . . any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts." (Emphasis supplied.) " The italicized part added three-dimensional work of art to what had been protected...

...photographs and negatives thereof in 1865.12 The Act of 1870 defined copyrightable subject matter as: ". . . any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts." (Emphasis supplied.) 13 The italicized part added three-dimensional work of art to what had been protected...

...photographs and negatives thereof in 1865.12 The Act of 1870 defined copyrigh table subject matter as: ". . . any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts." (Emphasis supplied.) ia The italicized part added three-dimensional work of art to what had been protected...

...photographs and negatives thereof in 1865.12 The act of 1870 defined copyrightable subject matter as : "* * * any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition,...photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, ehromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to 6e perfected as works of the fine arts."...

...dramatic or musical compositions, engravings, cuts, prints, paintings, drawing, statues, statuary and models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts." "According to the practice of legislation in England and America (says Judge Bouvier, 2 L. Die., 368),...

...ineffectual for that purpose. The Revised Statutes of the united States secure to the author, inventor or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print or photo graph, and lo the executors, administrators or assigns of such person, the sole libertv of printing,...