Excerpt from Amendment of Copyright Laws: Hearing Before the Committee on Patents Mr. Putnam. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am here on behalf of the book and periodical publishers Of the United States and of their clients, the authors, to ask you to prevent the enactment of House bill no. 3035. The bill proposes an amendment to the exist ing copyright statute as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.