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William Lincoln Brown

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William Lincoln Brown
2nd Register of Copyrights
In office
June 4, 1934 – July 1, 1936
Preceded byThorvald Solberg
Succeeded byClement Lincoln Bouvé
Acting Register of Copyrights
In office
April 22, 1930 – June 3, 1934
Personal details
Born1862
Brewster, Massachusetts
DiedFebruary 1940

William Lincoln Brown (1862–1940) was the second Register of Copyrights (1934–36) in the United States Copyright Office. He presided over the office during a time when Congress was active in proposing copyright legislation in the wake of the 1909 Copyright Act and leading up to the Copyright Act of 1976.

Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1862, William Lincoln Brown became chief of the Bookkeeping Division of the Copyright Office in 1907, rising to chief clerk shortly afterward. He left the Office in 1917 to become officer of the American Library Association's War Service Committee but returned three years later. Brown performed as acting Register of Copyrights upon Thorvald Solberg's retirement in 1930 until being officially named to the position.[1]

A retirement notice in the 1937 annual report of the Register of Copyrights described Brown as "a quiet and competent administrator, a man of high personal ideals, and a strong sense of duty and justice."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-03-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Fortieth Annual Report of the Register of Copyrights For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1947.
Government offices
Preceded by Register of Copyrights
1930–1936
Succeeded by