The student must carefully note the footnote on the schedule, and be most particular in all cases when he sells his copyright in any plates to have a written agreement drawn up and signed before he fills in the copyright schedules. After this proceeding he can fill up the schedule as directed, and it is, of course, only on these occasions that he will be required to fill in columns two and three of the schedule.
The student should carefully study the matter of copyrighting, for he will find both publishers and photographers are, as a rule, ill-informed on those parts of the copyright law to which we now refer.
(Copy of)
Memorandum for Registration under Copyright (Works of Art) Act.[Act.]
TO THE REGISTERING OFFICER APPOINTED BY THE STATIONERS' COMPANY.
I, John Silver, of 0, Regent’s Street, London, do hereby certify, That I am entitled to the Copyright in the undermentioned Work; and I hereby require a Memorandum of such Copyright [or, the Assignment of such Copyright] to be entered in the Register of Proprietors of Copyright in Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs, kept at Stationers' Hall, according to the particulars underwritten.
| (Every particular given must be clearly written.) | ||||
| Description of Work. | Date of Agreement or Assignment. | Names of Parties to Agreement or Assignment. | Name and Place of Abode of Proprietor of Copyright. | Name and Place of Abode of Author of Work. |
| Photograph | John Silver, | John Silver, | ||
| entitled | 0, Regent | 0, Regent | ||
| “Spring.” | Street, | Street, | ||
| London. | London. | |||
| Dated this 28th day of June, 1888. | (Signed) John Silver. | |||
N.B.—Office Hours from Ten to Four; Saturdays, Ten to Two.
N.B.—In all cases where a Painting, Drawing, or Negative of a Photograph is transferred for the first time by the owner to any other person, the Copyright will cease to exist, unless at or before the time of such transfer an Agreement in writing be signed by the transferee reserving the Copyright to the owner, or by the owner transferring the Copyright to the transferee, as may be the intention of the parties; and the date of such Agreement and names of parties must be inserted above, or registration will be no protection.
He fills in then all but columns 2 and 3, as in the dummy, and returns the form with a shilling, a copy of the photograph to be registered, and one penny for postage, when he will receive a receipt. Each photograph must be separately copyrighted. This 1s. 1d. protects the photograph for 42 years, or for the author’s lifetime and seven years after death. The author (being a British subject, or resident within the dominions of the Crown) is entitled to the copyright of every photograph made in the British dominions or elsewhere. We shall extract a few pertinent remarks from an excellent article on copyright, which appeared in the “Year’s Art of 1887:”—