Dodd, Mead & Company telegrams regarding the Vestal copyright bill
Content Description
Dodd, Mead & Company telegrams regarding the Vestal copyright bill consists of two original telegrams exchanged by Dodd Mead and Senator Charles W. Waterman, Chairman of the Senate Patents Committee in January 1931, regarding the Vestal copyright bill. The Vestal copyright bill, which granted automatic copyrights to authors for 50 years after their death without requirement of notice for registration, was termed "a most un-American proposal" by Senator Clarence Dill of Washington. The bill, which passed the house at the time, also provided for entrance of the United States to the convention of Berne for protection of literary and artistic works.
Dates
- Creation: 1931
Creator
- Dodd, Mead & Company (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
2 item
Abstract
Dodd, Mead & Company telegrams regarding the Vestal copyright bill consists of two original telegrams exchanged by Dodd Mead and Senator Charles W. Waterman, Chairman of the Senate Patents Committee in January 1931, regarding the Vestal copyright bill.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, 1991.
Shelving Summary
Box 69, F0999: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Processing Information
Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, January 2016.
Subject
- Title
- Finding aid for Dodd, Mead & Company telegrams regarding the Vestal copyright bill
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2016 January 28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository