Chapter III: Section 4954: , page 7.--Renewal term abolished

Section 4956, page 8.--Requirement that the deposit of copies shall
be "on or before the date of publication" is abolished, and a
margin of thirty days is allowed, with provisions for making good
omissions within a year.

The deposit (registration) is no longer to be the act entitling to
a copyright. The copyright is to be "secured" by "the publication
of the work with the notice of copyright affixed," and dates from
such publication. Registration with deposit remains compulsory, and
after the expiration of the thirty days no action for infringement
can be brought until it has been made; but it is no longer
expressed as a formality the failure to comply with which is to
avoid the copyright.

Section 4956, page 8.--Preliminary deposit of title or description
abolished. "Photographs" omitted from the "manufacturing clause."
["Chromos" also, in terms, but assumed to be covered by
"lithographs."]