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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 138, 139-APR. 22 , 1940 SEC. 3 . Any person who willfully and for profit shall infringe any right protected under this Act, or who shall knowingly and willfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprison- ment for not exceeding one year or by a fine of not-less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 4 . All the Acts, regulations, and provisions which apply to protecting copyrights, trade-marks, designs, and patents for inven- tions or discoveries not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall apply to certificates issued pursuant to this Act, but no notice of copyright on the work shall be required for protection hereunder. SE. 5 . Nothing contained in this Act shall bar or prevent the proprietor of the subject matter covered by any certificate issued pursuant to this Act from obtaining protection for such subject matter under the provisions of the copyright, trade-mark, or patent laws of the United States of America, as the case may be, in force prior hereto, and upon making application and complying with the provisions prescribed by such laws; and nothing contained in this Act shall prevent, lessen, impeach, or avoid any remedy at law or in equity under any certificate of copyright registration, certificate of trade-mark registration, or letters patent for inventions or dis- coveries or designs issued under the copyright, trade-mark, or patent laws of the United States of America, as the case may be, in force prior hereto, and which any owner thereof and of a certificate issued thereon pursuant to this Act might have had if this Act had not been passed, but such owner shall not twice recover the damages he has sustained or the profit made by reason of any infringement thereof. SEC. 6. The rights protected under the provisions of this Act as to any copyright, trade-mark, apparatus, device, machine, process, method, composition of matter, design, or manufactured article imported for exhibition at said Golden Gate International Exposi- tion shall begin on the date the same is placed on exhibition at said exposition and shall continue for a period of six months from the date of the closing to the general public of said exposition. SEC. 7. All necessary expenses incurred by the United States in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be reimbursed to the Government of the United States by the San Francisco Bay Exposi- tion, under regulations to be prescribed by the Librarian of Con- gress and the Commissioner of Patents, respectively; and receipts from such reimbursements shall be deposited as refunds to the appro- priations from which such expenses were paid. SEC. 8. Section 6 of Public Resolution Numbered 35 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, approved May 28, 1937 is hereby amended by adding thereto at the end thereof immediately before the period the words "in 1940". Approved, April 22, 1940. [CHAPTER 139] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1941, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, and such other officers of the District of Columbia and the United States as control any public lands in the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to grant permits, under such restrictions as they may deem necessary, to the Committee on Infringement, pen- alty. Terms of protection. Copyright actions, etc. Duration of protec- tion. Reimbursement of incurred expenses. Duration of proteo- tion extended. 60 Stat. 213. April 22,1940 [H. J. Res. 465] [Pub. Res., No. 63] Inaugural cee- monies, 1941. Useof publicspaces.