Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 4

DECLARE COPYRIGHT REVISION NECESSARY Witnesses Tell House Patents Com- mittee Authors Shomld Be Protected. BOOK SELLERS CRITICIZED Seeking Monopoly, Motion Picture Counsel Charges. Revision of the copyright laws, as proposed in the Dallinger bill, was urced upon the House patents com- mittee yesterday. Thorvald Solberg, register of copy- rights, declared that An can authors should ternational Copyright Union, which | the bill would provide. | Louis E. Swarts, eommittee tion Picture Prod tors of America. 1 hairman of a sub- ights of the Mo- ers and Distribu- ave the protection of the In- | his organization had expended $3,000,- 000 for copyright franchises without having this protection. He advocated placing the copyright in the hands of the author, as the Dallinger Uil provides. A film costing more than a million_dollars can be duplicated now by “pirates” for $300 or $400 from the negative, he said. Book Sellers Are Rapped. Arthur W. Weil, counsel for the motion pieture producers . apd _dis- tribucors, in urging adoption of the bill, gald that copyright is a negative right and patent is & positive one, but both are based on creation. 'The book scllers wish to maintain a monopoly of the ‘American market, he said, and that is a reason for their opposition to the bill. he de- clared. Mr, Weil denied that the Dallinger measure would increase the cost of books to the public, Eric Shuler, secretary of the Au- thors' league of America, told the committee his organization appro: of_the bill_as a whole. Nathan Burkan, counsel for the American_Society of Composers, Au- thors and Publishers, and who also spoke for a group of New York the- trical men, charged that some er manufacturers of records and ¢ rolls have not made honest yally returns to composers and that the latter have thus been de- frauded out of thousands of dollars. He pleaded for a provision in the bill to adequately protect authors, com- posers and publishers. Unless radio broadcasting was in- THE EVENIN cluded within the meaning of the bill in defining “performance,” Mr. Bar- kan said, he would oppose it. E. C. Mills, appearing in support of the bill for the Music Publishers’ Protective Association, declared sheet music is goIng out of existence In the face of increased mechanical pro- duction of musie, in the form of phonographs and player-planos, and also because of radio broadcasting. “We're becoming a mechanical people, musically,” Mills declared. “‘Where we had thousands of music teachers and pupils before, we now have hundreds.” Chairman Lampert announced that opponents of the measure would got an opportunity to be heard later. SUEES R R “Aviation” Lecture Topic. Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam, U. S. N., retired, will give an illustrated Jecture tonight at § o'clock in the Cos- mos Club on “Aviation—What It Has Done in Twenty Years and What May Be Expected of It in the Near Iu- ture.” Admiral Fullam will s under the auspices of the Distri Columbia Chapter, National nautical Association. ~ The lecture will be illustrated with a motion pic- ture film detailing the outstanding achievements of military and postal aviation in America. G ST WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1924 TheoimgNens Sog Birth Rate Drops Here and in 21 States in 1923, U. S. Figures Show The birth rate in Washington, in 1923, in common with twenty-one of the twenty-seven states for which figures wero obtained, de- creased, as compared with the 1922 figures, the Department of Com- merce announced today The 1923 birth rate, tho dopartment an- nounced, was 18.9 per 1,000 popu- lation, against 20.7 per 1,000 in 1922, An increase was shown in the death rates, the 1923 rate being 14.9 per 1,000, exclusive of sull- births, agiinst 144 per 1,000 for Tho birth rate for Alexandria, Va., In 1822, was 27.2 per 1,000, against 26.7 for 1922, The Alex- andria death rate for 1023 was 15.9 per 1,000, against 15.1 for 1922, Several thousands of pleasure ers wended their way to Chevy Lake last night for the first time this season. The opening of the resort was signalized by n wpeolal conesrt by Meyer Davin' Lo Parudis Hand. As in previous seasons, dunce loy- ers found their mecean on the UppAr and lower dance pavilions, whare {wo Davis _orchestran _interproted = the latest dance numbers. Roth pavilions \were crowded: throughotit the even- ni Blwood McNally, jaza panist, and A. Kaminsky, violiniat, respectively, |} honded the two Davis bhands which mado their debut laxt night as this seaxon’s featured attractions at the ancors who Jour neyed out to enjoy the musical pro gram found their plensure in retin on the goups of rustic benches which en placed 1o as to overlook the electrically flluminated lake nnd also within easy hearing distance of the dance pavilions, Bowling was an added attraction, || while the restaurant and refreshment stands were kept busy. s g iy At this time of the year the lawnmower comes Into its own—the latest is one which is self-sharpen=- ing. Only ono wheel is removed and a clutch pulley replaces it, which serves to turn the blades of the mow- er while they are being sharpened. 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