UNITED STATES CODE, 1909 479
(although authorized by the author or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the manufac- turing provisions specified in section fifteen of this Act, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, or any copies thereof produced by lithographic or photo-engraving process not performed within the limits of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, shall be, and is hereby, prohibited : Provided, however, That, except as re- gards piratical copies, such prohibition shall not apply:
(a) To works in raised characters for the use of the blind ;
(b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although con- taining matter copyrighted in the United States printed or reprinted by authority of the copyright proprietor, unless such newspaper or magazine contains also copyright mat- ter printed or reprinted without such authorization ;
(c) To the authorized edition of a book in a foreign lan- guage or languages of which only a translation into Eng- lish has been copyrighted in this country;
(d) To any book published abroad with the authoriza- tion of the author or copyright proprietor when imported under the circumstances stated in one of the four subdivi- sions following, that is to say:
First. When imported, not more than one copy at one time, for individual use and not for sale ; but such privilege of importation shall not extend to a foreign reprint of a book by an American author copyrighted in the United States;
Second. When imported by the authority or for the use of the United States ;
Third. When imported, for use and not for sale, not more than one copy of any such book in any one in- voice, in good faith, by or for any society or institution incorporated for educational, literary, philosophical, scientific, or religious purposes, or for the encourage- ment of the fine arts, or for any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning, or for any State, school, college, university, or free public library in the United States;
Exceptions to prohibition
Works for the blind
Foreign newspapers or magazines
Books in foreign
Importation of authorized foreign books permitted
For individ- ual use and not for sale
For the use of U.S.
For the use of societies, libraries, etc.
