Show COPYRIGHT BILL Delegation of Those Opposed tolit Appears Before the HottselW WASHNIGTON March 4A delegation delega-tion representing the interests 0 authors au-thors photographers and publishers appeared ap-peared before the house committee on patents today in opposition to the Tre loar copyright bill In the party were Robert Underwood Johnson secretary of the Authors and Publishers league Charles A Belles secretary and B Lowenson attorney of the Photographers Photograph-ers leage Charles B Bailey of Washington Wash-ington and Librarian Spofford of the congressfonal library Mr Johnson presented sented resolutlonstJadopted by the Authors Au-thors league and spoke in elaboration of them The authors contended that the bill renders it uncertain whether the work of a foreigner can be copyrighted copy-righted otherwise than through the assignment as-signment of hiS interest to a citizen of the United States and that its effect would be to bring about a revocation of the copyright relations entered into tinder the act of 1891 with foreign governments I gov-ernments A protest Ws presented from the American Publishers Copyright Copy-rIght league principally against that I feature of the bill stipulating that musical mu-sical compositions and reproductions dl I works of art in the form oC engravings engrav-ings etc must be manufactured wholly in the United States to be copyrighted |