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Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance, Frankfurt (1660)
Source: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt Ffm W 554
Citation:
Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance, Frankfurt (1660), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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and Statutes
edicts / and the punishments stipulated in these, /
to obediently observe these directives of the Holy Empire
and never to act against them, / on pain of the penalties
specified therein (including corporal punishment, in particular),
/ the severity of which We, the Council, / are herewith entitled
to increase / depending on the circumstances.
And, in general, we herewith order all printers
and publishers that each time / they would like to publish an
edition of / treatises and books – / both new and old ones – / they do
indeed proceed / to edit the works as they intended / and then, first of all,
deliver them [the proofs of the planned editions] to our Council’s Chancellery, / where
they will be examined, / and then, after this censorship has taken place, that
they have the authorisation or privilege actually recorded on the outside [of the work]
both for their own information and that of others, / once again
on pain of a corporal punishment, / which each and every violator
of this statute – / printers and publishers alike – / is inexorably
liable to.
Since We, the Council, have in the past, but especially
in recent times, come across a lot of complaining going on amongst
printers and publishers on account of reprinting and for other reasons,
We have rightly had occasion / to reflect on
how such complaints / cannot but become more frequent in future, /
and how, then, the printers are to live together in peace and harmony, /
without seeking their livelihood at the expense of one or the other colleague;
We herewith decree and lay down that / all printers / and publishers / living here
at present, / and every one of them in particular, / as well as any
that may establish themselves here in future, / are to scrupulously observe
this [statute], / on pain of earnest, / unrelenting monetary or corporal
punishment, / depending on the nature of the infringement, / being imposed on the offender – /
may all printers and publishers comply with this / and thereby avoid coming to grief!
First of all, no book printer is allowed to reprint, / in whatever way one
might devise and attempt, / those books or authors – / irrespective of the importance or fame of the latter, /
and not excluding anything, / that is, scholarly works too – /
which another printer has so far been the only one to print /
or which
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Source: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt Ffm W 554
Citation:
Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance, Frankfurt (1660), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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edicts / and the punishments stipulated in these, /
to obediently observe these directives of the Holy Empire
and never to act against them, / on pain of the penalties
specified therein (including corporal punishment, in particular),
/ the severity of which We, the Council, / are herewith entitled
to increase / depending on the circumstances.
And, in general, we herewith order all printers
and publishers that each time / they would like to publish an
edition of / treatises and books – / both new and old ones – / they do
indeed proceed / to edit the works as they intended / and then, first of all,
deliver them [the proofs of the planned editions] to our Council’s Chancellery, / where
they will be examined, / and then, after this censorship has taken place, that
they have the authorisation or privilege actually recorded on the outside [of the work]
both for their own information and that of others, / once again
on pain of a corporal punishment, / which each and every violator
of this statute – / printers and publishers alike – / is inexorably
liable to.
Since We, the Council, have in the past, but especially
in recent times, come across a lot of complaining going on amongst
printers and publishers on account of reprinting and for other reasons,
We have rightly had occasion / to reflect on
how such complaints / cannot but become more frequent in future, /
and how, then, the printers are to live together in peace and harmony, /
without seeking their livelihood at the expense of one or the other colleague;
We herewith decree and lay down that / all printers / and publishers / living here
at present, / and every one of them in particular, / as well as any
that may establish themselves here in future, / are to scrupulously observe
this [statute], / on pain of earnest, / unrelenting monetary or corporal
punishment, / depending on the nature of the infringement, / being imposed on the offender – /
may all printers and publishers comply with this / and thereby avoid coming to grief!
First of all, no book printer is allowed to reprint, / in whatever way one
might devise and attempt, / those books or authors – / irrespective of the importance or fame of the latter, /
and not excluding anything, / that is, scholarly works too – /
which another printer has so far been the only one to print /
or which
No Transcription available.