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| REPUBLIC ACT NO. 167 - AN
ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE POWERS, DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS
RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION AND PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHTS FROM THE
NATIONAL LIBRARY TO THE PATENT OFFICE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES |
| Section
1. Transfer of powers from National Library to Patent
Office. — The powers, duties and functions vested in, or performed and
exercised by, the National Library in connection with the registration
of copyrights are hereby transferred to the Patent Office. All books, records and files of the National Library relating to copyrights, and such personnel of said National Library as is now discharging the functions or performing the duties of the National Library in connection with the registration of copyrights with the corresponding appropriation, are transferred to the Patent Office, and the Budget Commissioner shall make immediate provision for such transfer: Provided, however, That one of the two copies deposited in connection with every copyright registration already effected and hereinafter to be made will remain with or be sent to the National Library for its Filipiñiana collection; and that for the purposes of this provision the Copyright Office shall hereafter require the deposit of two copies in connection with the registration of any class of published works as well as of any kind of manuscripts or other unpublished works. Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval. Approved: June 20, 1947 |


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