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Saxon Copyright Act, Dresden (1844)
Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt / Main Dt 9 Ak 9
Citation:
Saxon Copyright Act, Dresden (1844), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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as the date on which this law and the relevant
regulatory statutes shall come into force.
In witness whereof We have personally signed
this decree and impressed the Royal Seal next to
our signature.
Issued at Dresden, 22 February 1844.
Frederick Augustus
[seal] Eduard Gottlob Nostitz-Jänckendorf.
_______________
Nr 7 LAW,
concerning the protection of rights to literary
products and works of art;
promulgated on 22 February 1844.
We, Frederick Augustus, by the Grace of God King
of Saxony etc. find ourselves induced to decree,
with the approval of our loyal estates, the following
regarding the protection of rights to literary
products and works of art:
1.) The right to reproduce literary products
and works of art by mechanical means belongs
exclusively to the author and his legal successors;
and it is, moreover, a property right which can be
transferred to other persons. This, however, rests
on the assumption that such literary products and
works of art can be used for money-making and that
they really are meant for this, as must be recognisable
from the standard way in which they are used or from
any special circumstances that may apply.
If a reproduction of this kind is carried out
by unauthorised persons, then it is to be considered
as an act of reprinting or illegal copying
2.) In this respect it is totally irrelevant
whether a literary product or work of art has or
has not already been published with the author's
consent; whether the literary product has been
provided by the author himself in the form of a
manuscript, or whether it has been written down by
someone else from an oral account; and, in the case
of works of art, whether the reproduction is made
not through purely mechanical means but with the aid
of copying requiring independent artistic talent.
No Transcription available.
Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt / Main Dt 9 Ak 9
Citation:
Saxon Copyright Act, Dresden (1844), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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as the date on which this law and the relevant
regulatory statutes shall come into force.
In witness whereof We have personally signed
this decree and impressed the Royal Seal next to
our signature.
Issued at Dresden, 22 February 1844.
Frederick Augustus
[seal] Eduard Gottlob Nostitz-Jänckendorf.
_______________
concerning the protection of rights to literary
products and works of art;
promulgated on 22 February 1844.
We, Frederick Augustus, by the Grace of God King
of Saxony etc. find ourselves induced to decree,
with the approval of our loyal estates, the following
regarding the protection of rights to literary
products and works of art:
1.) The right to reproduce literary products
and works of art by mechanical means belongs
exclusively to the author and his legal successors;
and it is, moreover, a property right which can be
transferred to other persons. This, however, rests
on the assumption that such literary products and
works of art can be used for money-making and that
they really are meant for this, as must be recognisable
from the standard way in which they are used or from
any special circumstances that may apply.
If a reproduction of this kind is carried out
by unauthorised persons, then it is to be considered
as an act of reprinting or illegal copying
2.) In this respect it is totally irrelevant
whether a literary product or work of art has or
has not already been published with the author's
consent; whether the literary product has been
provided by the author himself in the form of a
manuscript, or whether it has been written down by
someone else from an oral account; and, in the case
of works of art, whether the reproduction is made
not through purely mechanical means but with the aid
of copying requiring independent artistic talent.
No Transcription available.