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Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785)

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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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and forbidden books (a new full catalogue of the latter is to follow), as was
previously the case, except for those few non-Catholic books which are suitable
for the education of the common people and as reading for them: just those
[Catholic] fellow-believers to whom this applies will be allowed to have these
books upon presentation of special licences.
            However, since the new, rectified catalogue of forbidden books cannot
be drawn up so quickly because of the many considerations that have to be taken
into account in this matter, everything that is included in the existent
catalogue - even those works which have been selected for a relaxation [of the
censorship laws in the present statute] - is to be regarded as forbidden for
the time being, until the sections of the new catalogue that is to be compiled
can start to be published with some regularity.

            7. As far as the publication of texts submitted for printing in each
of the hereditary territories is concerned, all works of a certain significance
- that is, which will clearly have a substantial influence on scholarship,
academic studies, and religion - must be brought to the Book Censorship
[Commission] in Vienna for approval. This is, however, to be done in such a way
that every such work must be accompanied by a certificate from its territory
of provenance, confirming that nothing contrary to



    

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