e date
of first publication, whether the copyrighted work bears the author's
true name or is published anonymously or under an assumed name. A
further term of twenty-eight years is granted to the author if at the
expiration of the first term he be still living, or to his widow and
children if he be dead. If the author's widow and children be dead an
extension is granted to the author's executors, or in the absence of a
will, to his next of kin. Applications for renewal and extension must
be made to the copyright office and duly registered therein within one
year prior to the expiration of the existing term. To any work in
which copyright subsists at the time the act went into force the act
extends renewal for a period of twenty-eight years at the expiration
of the time provided for under the previously existing law (first
period 28 years, renewal period 14 years). The works for which
copyright may be secured under the act "Shall include all the writings
of an author." For purposes of registration the act classifies (1)
books, including composite and cyclopaedic works, directories,
gazetteers and other compilations; (2) periodicals, including
newspapers; (3) lectures, sermons, addresses, prepared for oral
delivery; (4) dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions; (5) musical
compositions; (6) maps; (7) works of art; models or designs for works
of art; (8) reproductions of a work of art; (9) drawings or plastic
works of a scientific or technical character; (10) photographs and
(11) prints and pictorial illustrations. But compilations or
abridgments, adaptations, arrangements, dramatizations, translations
or other versions of copyrighted works, when produced with the consent
of the proprietors of the copyrighted work are, under the 1909 act,
new works subject to copyright. A citizen or subject of a foreign
state can secure copyright only when he is domiciled within the United
States at the time of the first publication of his work, or when the
foreign state or nation of which he is a subject grants, either by
treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of the United States
the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own
citizens, or copyright protection equal to that secured by the foreign
author under the United States act, or when the foreign state is a
party to an international agreement providing for reciprocity in the
gr