1424 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Authors and Publishers, for the enforcement of the said pro-
visions of the Copyright Act and for the protection of their
interests thereunder; and

WHEREAS, The American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers maintains a super-governmental enforcement agency
with investigators always ready to descend upon any offender
and bring him to task; and

WHEREAS, This additional fee for permission to use the com-
position publicly for profit, and the penalties for infringement
of the same are paid to the copyright proprietor, who ordi-
narily is not the author or composer of the composition; and

WHEREAS, These provisions of the Copyright Act are in-
imicable to the best interests of a majority of the people and
make it impossible to present this music to them at reasonable
prices; now, therefore be it

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Congress of the United States be memorialized to amend the
Copyright Act of 1909 to provide that a person who has copy-
righted a dramatico-musical or a choral or orchestral composi-
tion or other musical composition, which composition is offered
for sale to the public, shall not have the exclusive right to
perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit, nor be en-
titled to receive any fee or price in addition to the purchase
price, for permission to use the composition in a public per-
formance for profit, nor be entitled to any penalty if the com-
position is so used without the permission of the copyright pro-
prietor; and, be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the State of Maryland be
and he is hereby requested to transmit under the Great Seal of
this State, a copy of the aforegoing resolution to the President
of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and to each of the Representatives from Maryland, in both
Houses of Congress.

Approved March 8, 1929.