were not from type set or plates made within the United States, was overruled; and for drama in Her- vieu v. Ogilvie in 1909, where in the U. S. Circuit Court in New York, Judge Martin cited with approval Judge Colt's decision. This ruling was also embodied in Treasury decision No. 21012 of April 17, 1899, per- mitting the importation of musical compositions copy- righted in the United States and printed abroad.
British
colonial
practice
The Australian law, on the contrary, specifically
includes under the definition of "book," a "drama-
tic work" and a "musical work," and thus subjects
both to the manufacturing clause. Printing and pub-
lishing are required in Canada ("within one month
after publication or production elsewhere") and in
Newfoundland to obtain copyright under the local
acts; and as drama is not mentioned but included
generically as a book or literary composition, and
music is specifically included, both dramatic and
musical compositions must be manufactured within
each country to obtain local, as distinguished from
British or Imperial, protection.
Entry under
proper class
The author of a dramatic, dramatico-musical, or
musical composition should therefore be careful to
make application in the United States under class (d)
or (e) and not as a book under class (b). The fact
that the law classifies under subsection (d) dramatic
or dramatico-musical compositions and under sub-
section (e) musical compositions, has caused the
Applications
and certifi-
catesCopyright Office to prepare separate application
forms and certificates for (D1) a dramatic composition,
(D3) a dramatico-musical composition and (E1) a
musical composition, "published"; as also for (D2)
a dramatic composition (or a dramatico-musical
composition) and (E2) a musical composition, "not
reproduced for sale." It would seem advisable there-
fore that the author of an opera, oratorio or the like,
