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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS
I. UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT CODE OF 1909
An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting Copyright
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provsions of this Act, shall have the exclusive right:
(a) Exclusive right to print, publish, and vend To print, reprint, publish, copy, and vend the copyrighted work;
(b) To translate, dramatize arrange and adapt, etc.To translate the copyrighted work into other languages or dialects, or make any other version thereof, if it be a literary work; to dramatize it if it be a nondramatic work; to convert it into a novel or other nondramatic work if it be a drama; to arrange or adapt it if it be a musical work; to complete, execute, and finish it if it be a model or design for a work of art;
(c) To deliver lectures, sermons, etc.To deliver or authorize the delivery of the copyrighted work in public for profit if it be a lecture, sermon, address, or similar production;
(d) To represent dramatic works, or make record, or exhibit or perform, etc.To perform or represent the copyrighted work publicly if it be a drama or, if it be a dramatic work and not reproduced in copies for sale, to vend any manuscript or any dramatic record whatsoever thereof; to make or to procure the making of any transcription or record thereof by or from which, in whole or in part, it may in any manner or by any method be exhibited, performed, represented, produced, or reproduced; and to exhibit, perform, represent, produce, or reproduce it in any manner or by any method whatsoever;
(e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition and for the purpose of public
