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Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785)
Source: Private Collection
Citation:
Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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the measures to be taken are: a search [of the traveller's temporary lodgings
and of his luggage], confiscation and safekeeping of the forbidden books.
However, with the exception of such a case,
11. private individuals and travellers are to be allowed to pass
freely through a province with the books they are carrying for their own use.
All the same, though, this is understood to apply only to those books which
a traveller is actually carrying on his person during his journeys. Otherwise,
in the case of books ordered from abroad by a private person or those which
he arranges to be transported in packing-cases, these are to be treated just
like booksellers' merchandise.
11. With regard to texts that are submitted for printing, all
manuscripts of a certain significance - that is, those which are expected
to have a substantial influence on scholarship, academic studies, and religion
- are to be submitted in two copies to the Imperial Book Censorship Commission
in Vienna, together with a certificate issued by someone competent to judge
the manuscript in question and confirming that it contains nothing contrary
to religion, good morals, and the provincial laws, and that it is thus in
accordance with common sense. Less important pieces are simply to be
authorised or rejected by the territorial authority depending on whether
such a certificate can be produced or not.
Re-published on 5 March 1783.
No Transcription available.
Source: Private Collection
Citation:
Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
Back | Record | Images | Commentaries: [1]
Translation only | Transcription only | Show all | Bundled images as pdf
the measures to be taken are: a search [of the traveller's temporary lodgings
and of his luggage], confiscation and safekeeping of the forbidden books.
However, with the exception of such a case,
11. private individuals and travellers are to be allowed to pass
freely through a province with the books they are carrying for their own use.
All the same, though, this is understood to apply only to those books which
a traveller is actually carrying on his person during his journeys. Otherwise,
in the case of books ordered from abroad by a private person or those which
he arranges to be transported in packing-cases, these are to be treated just
like booksellers' merchandise.
11. With regard to texts that are submitted for printing, all
manuscripts of a certain significance - that is, those which are expected
to have a substantial influence on scholarship, academic studies, and religion
- are to be submitted in two copies to the Imperial Book Censorship Commission
in Vienna, together with a certificate issued by someone competent to judge
the manuscript in question and confirming that it contains nothing contrary
to religion, good morals, and the provincial laws, and that it is thus in
accordance with common sense. Less important pieces are simply to be
authorised or rejected by the territorial authority depending on whether
such a certificate can be produced or not.
Re-published on 5 March 1783.
No Transcription available.