Clement Lincoln Bouvé ( May 27, 1878 - January 14, 1944 ) is the third official copyright registrar in the United States.
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Bouvet was the first lawyer to work with the US Copyright Office. His work at the bureau was marked by paying attention to formalities in the United States copyright law , the formation of the Audit Council, the copyright catalog, etc. [1]
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Biography
Clement Lincoln Bouvet was born on May 27, 1878 in Hingham, on the south coast of the US state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth. He was educated at Harvard College and at Harvard Law School . Prior to becoming a registrar, he served as Assistant United States District Attorney for Manila (Philippines), Panamanian Commission . As a representative of the United States of America, he worked in a special commentary commission to discuss disagreements over the border with Mexico after the US bought the Panama Canal zone.
During the First World War, he served in field artillery in France , then in the occupying units of the US Army in Germany . He retired from the US Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1912, Bouvet wrote “A Treatise on the Laws Governing the Exclusion and Expulsion of Aliens in the United States”. This was one of the first authoritative legal work on this topic. [2]
Clement Lincoln Bouvet was appointed copyright registrar on August 1, 1936. He presided there during his move in 1939 from the south side of the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building. into the building under construction by John Adams (John Adams Building).
On December 31, 1943, Bouvet, being seriously ill, resigned. He died a few weeks later, on January 14, 1944, and was buried in the US Arlington Cemetery .
Proceedings
Under his leadership, the author's catalog of 1938-1945 was created, in which all registration records representing all authors, applicants and names for all classes of registered works were collected, he also wrote a 72-page document entitled “a letter to the Library of Congress regarding some aspects Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, in Relation to the Public Interests and Existing Issues of Copyright (Letter to the Librarian of Congress concerning Certain Aspects of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, in their Relation to the Public Interest and Existing Problems of C opyright Office Administration, with Proposed Amendments. ”). The letter was addressed to the US administration and contained amendments to copyright law. [3] Although the author did not propose any major amendments to the law in this publication, the author served as an example for those who later succeeded in revising the law.
See also
- Copyright registrar
Notes
- ↑ Biography of Clement Lincoln Bouvé Archived on January 6, 2010. , United States Copyright Office
- ↑ Charles Earl, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 6, pg. 1030 (1912)
- ↑ ア ー カ イ ブ さ れ た コ ピ ー . Date of treatment March 1, 2010. Archived June 12, 2011.
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