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Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785)
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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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personally vouch for the truth of what has been written. The reason for this
is that every truth-loving person will be only too glad if the truth reaches
him even in such a way.
4. Whole works and periodicals are not to be forbidden on account
of individual offensive passages that may be found in them, as long as the
work as such contains useful things, and all the more so given that large
works of this kind rarely fall into the hands of such people whose minds
might be affected harmfully by such offensive passages. However, if a
separate issue or section of a periodical publication of this kind - which
could reasonably be regarded as a simple brochure - were subsequently indeed
to be classed as a forbidden book, it should, in this respect, be delivered
only to those persons who had subscribed for the whole work or who had
pledged themselves by name to buy it in its entirety, although one or
several of its sections may be withheld from the latter too if they contain
passages that treat religion, morals, or the State and the sovereign in
a manner that is obviously offensive.
5. Just as those books which were previously permitted erga
schedam [by special licence] to learned, non-Catholic readers are to be
allowed completely from now on, in view of their simply being works of
scholarship, so there is no longer to be any possibility of modifying
[i.e. toning down] the restrictions which distinguish between authorised
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
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personally vouch for the truth of what has been written. The reason for this
is that every truth-loving person will be only too glad if the truth reaches
him even in such a way.
4. Whole works and periodicals are not to be forbidden on account
of individual offensive passages that may be found in them, as long as the
work as such contains useful things, and all the more so given that large
works of this kind rarely fall into the hands of such people whose minds
might be affected harmfully by such offensive passages. However, if a
separate issue or section of a periodical publication of this kind - which
could reasonably be regarded as a simple brochure - were subsequently indeed
to be classed as a forbidden book, it should, in this respect, be delivered
only to those persons who had subscribed for the whole work or who had
pledged themselves by name to buy it in its entirety, although one or
several of its sections may be withheld from the latter too if they contain
passages that treat religion, morals, or the State and the sovereign in
a manner that is obviously offensive.
5. Just as those books which were previously permitted erga
schedam [by special licence] to learned, non-Catholic readers are to be
allowed completely from now on, in view of their simply being works of
scholarship, so there is no longer to be any possibility of modifying
[i.e. toning down] the restrictions which distinguish between authorised
No Transcription available.