A Treatise on the Law of Copyright in Books, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Letters and Other Manuscripts, Engravings and Sculpture, as Enacted and Administered in England and America; with Some Notices of the History of Literary Property

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C. C. Little and J. Brown; London, 1847 - 450 Seiten

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Seite 44 - of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of " such copies during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 11 - Action may plead the General Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Seite 31 - ... to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to the use of the United States, to be recovered by suit in any district court of the United States within whose jurisdiction such offense may have been committed.
Seite 31 - ... of this act, he or they may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence.
Seite 206 - College, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Public Library at Cambridge, the Library of the faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, the Libraries of the four Universities of Scotland, Trinity College Library, and the King's Inns...
Seite 66 - That in the construction of uon of act. this act, the word "book" shall be construed to mean and include every volume, part or division of a volume, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, chart, or plan separately published...
Seite 8 - ... volumes, parts, essays, articles, or portions shall have been or shall hereafter be composed under such employment, on the terms that the copyright therein shall belong to such proprietor...
Seite 36 - ... patent, the name or any imitation of the name of any other person who hath or shall have obtained letters patent for the sole making...
Seite 162 - 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...

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