Mr. PUTNAM. No; it was simply meant to apply to the beginning of some enterprise, the beginning to prepare to manufacture. It is a business undertaking, not a legal one.
Mr. BONYNGE. That is what I understood it to be--an enterprise.
Mr. CURRIER. You might let the two words go out, so it would read, "who, after notification of the copyright, begins to infringe it." Then it would be a question of fact.
Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Chairman, you have asked me to announce that it will be the desire of the committee to have the names and addresses of all those present at these hearings, and the relations in which, if they desire to express it, they are here, whether in favor of or in opposition to the bill. We have provided a register at the door in which those names can be noted. I understand that it is desired that that shall extend to all those present.
The CHAIRMAN. All present, and in such form that it may be placed in the record that we are making.
Mr. CHANEY. You mean also to include, I suppose, a brief expression from these people as to their objections, and to what their objections related?
Mr. PUTNAM. Yes. The register will be supplemented by their communications, I suppose--the register itself, including their names.
Mr. Horace Pettit, Mr. Chairman, who spoke yesterday, desires to supplement his remarks with an additional suggestion or two, which he has put in writing, and asks simply to have entered in the record, with your permission.
Doctor Lewandowski, present here, asks me to submit a request in writing from a firm of music publishers in New York, that he submit to you a communication in aid of the provisions for the protection of music publishers against reproduction by mechanical devices. He submits that in writing, with the request that it may be entered on the record.
(The various papers above mentioned will be found at the end of this statement of Mr. Putnam.)
Mr. PUTNAM. The copyright office, Mr. Chairman, is now in receipt, naturally, since the bill has been introduced, of some suggestions from those who have participated in the conferences, and since the bill has been introduced and is in the custody of your committee it would seem that those belong to the files of your committee. If you will permit me, I will submit these, without reading them, to be entered in the record.