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COPYRIGHT
Remittances All remittances to the Copyright Office should be sent by money order or bank draft. Postage stamps should not be sent for fees or postage. Checks can not be accepted un- less certified. Coin or currency inclosed in letter or pack- ages if sent will be at the remitter's risk.
Publishers may for their own convenience deposit in the Copyright Office a sum of money in advance against which each registration will be charged.
ASSIGNMENTS OF COPYRIGHT
Assignments 41- When a copyright has been assigned the instrument
of copyright in writing signed by the proprietor of the copyright may
be filed in this office for record within six calendar months
after its execution without the limits of the United States
or three calendar months within the United States.
After having been recorded the original assignment will be returned to the sender with a sealed certificate of record attached.
Fee for re- 42. The fee for recording and certifying an assignment cording as- is $i up to 300 words; $2 from 300 to 1, 000 words; and an- signment other dollar for each additional thousand words or fraction thereof over 300 words.
43. After the assignment has been duly recorded, the assignee may substitute his name for that of the assignor in the copyright notice on the work assigned. Such sub- stitution or transfer of ownership will be indexed in this office upon request, at a cost of 10 cents for each work as- signed.
NOTICE OF USER OF MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
44. Whenever the owner of the copyright in a musical composition uses such music in phonographs himself or per- mits anyone else to do so, he must send a notice of such use by him or by any other person to the Copyright Office to be recorded.
sence of ' ^5' Whenever any person in the absence of a license in- license tends to use a copyrighted musical composition upon the
ITame of as- signee in claim
Notice of user of music
