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 PropertyC. C. Little and J. Brown; London, 1847 - 450 Seiten |
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... existence of such a right . The licensing act of Charles II . was revived in the 1st of James II . c . 7 , and continued by 4 W. & M. c . 24 , and finally expired in 1694. In this last year , the stationers ' company , apparently with ...
... existence of such a right . The licensing act of Charles II . was revived in the 1st of James II . c . 7 , and continued by 4 W. & M. c . 24 , and finally expired in 1694. In this last year , the stationers ' company , apparently with ...
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... existence of a common law right of property in authors , as a right understood at the times when these decisions were made . These cases were decided before the Revolution , at which it seems obviously proper to pause as at a stage in ...
... existence of a common law right of property in authors , as a right understood at the times when these decisions were made . These cases were decided before the Revolution , at which it seems obviously proper to pause as at a stage in ...
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... existence of all right whatever , except that which goes the length of inferring an abandon- ment or surrender to the public by the act of publication . One great struggle in this , and the preceding case 56 LAW OF COPYRIGHT .
... existence of all right whatever , except that which goes the length of inferring an abandon- ment or surrender to the public by the act of publication . One great struggle in this , and the preceding case 56 LAW OF COPYRIGHT .
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... existence , whereby the petitioners would be very great suffer- ers , through their former involuntary misapprehen- sion of the law ; and praying for relief in the prem- ises . Evidence was thereupon taken before a com- mittee of the ...
... existence , whereby the petitioners would be very great suffer- ers , through their former involuntary misapprehen- sion of the law ; and praying for relief in the prem- ises . Evidence was thereupon taken before a com- mittee of the ...
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... existence of a common law right of authors , in any one of the American colonies , depends , of course , upon its existence in England , when the colony was 1 Mr. Wordsworth . 21 Story's Commentaries on the Constitution , 137-140 ...
... existence of a common law right of authors , in any one of the American colonies , depends , of course , upon its existence in England , when the colony was 1 Mr. Wordsworth . 21 Story's Commentaries on the Constitution , 137-140 ...
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abridgment aforesaid Anne assigns author or proprietor book or books booksellers printer Burr cause chart common law Company of Stationers consent copy or cast court of equity court of record defendant delivered doctrine England entitled entry equity exclusive right exposed to sale Faculty of Advocates forfeit further enacted granted injunction Justice lished literary property Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon Lord Mansfield Lords Spiritual manuscript ment model copy moiety thereof musical composition order in council parliament passing penalties person or persons piracy pirated plaintiff prietor principle print or prints printed and published printed book printed copy printer or printers proprietor or proprietors protection Provided publication published or exposed question register book reprinted or imported right of printing right of property Scotland sell sole liberty sole right statute statute of Anne Story's term of fourteen tion United Kingdom Vict warehouse-keeper writing
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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...