CONTENTS. Registration of Literary Copyright Transmission of Literary Copyright Title to Copyright in the Drama and Music, and Registration of Copyright in the Drama and Music 69 Bramwell v. Halcomb Carnan v. Bowles Carr v. Hood Clementi v. Goulding Earl of Granard v. Dunkin Fores v. Johnes Giles v. Wilcox Grierson v. Jackson Hime v. Dale Hogg v. Kirby A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT. CHAPTER I. COPYRIGHT IN LITERATURE. COPYRIGHT DEFINED. THERE is," says Blackstone (Comm. vol. ii. p. 405.), "a species of property, which (if it subsists at common law), being grounded on labour and invention, is more properly reducible to the head of occupancy than any other; since the right of occupancy itself is supposed by Mr. Locke, and many others, to be founded on the personal labour of the occupant. And this is the right which an author may be supposed to have in his own original literary compositions : so that no other person, without his leave, may publish or make profit of the copies. When a man, by the exertion of his rational powers, has produced an original work, he seems to have clearly a right to dispose of that identical work as he pleases; and any attempt to vary the disposition he has made of it, appears to be an infringement of that right. Now the identity of a literary composition B |