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Provincial decree of Holland abolishing Book Privileges and bestowing a Right to Copy, The Hague (1795)

Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW Pflt 22519a

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Provincial decree of Holland abolishing Book Privileges and bestowing a Right to Copy, The Hague (1795), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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visions rely on a vested Property, these will be revoked in case there is no such Property or Copyright: and thus are expressly excluded Bibles, Testaments, Psalm Books, and further Church and School Books, which have been imported on public authority, and which are not the private Property, or Print of any private Confraternity in the Guild: as such books, also Calendars, Almanacs etc. may be printed, translated etc. by any Bookseller, except for the time being those Almanacs and Calendars on which has been granted privilege by the previous administration, and of which privilege the term has not yet lapsed.
9. That those State Documents which should be considered as a property of the People of Holland, and at their expense, will be printed in the State Printing House, and published for the benefit of the State Finances, without the consent of this Meeting, will not be reprinted and published except in books which deal with the history of this country, or in collections of State Documents or in Codes etc. on which all Booktraders have equal rights.
10. That all Booktraders will be re-

    


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lingen op een verkregen Eigendom steunen, dezelve vervallen zullen wanneer zoodanig Eigendom, of recht van Copy geen plaats heeft: en dus worden wel expresselyk uitgezonderd Bybels, Testamenten, Psalm-Boeken, en verdere Kerk- en School-Boeken, welke op publiek gezag zyn ingevoerd geworden, en welke niet het prive Eigendom, of de Copy zyn, van eenigen particulieren Gildebroeder: als welke boeken, gelyk mede Tydwyzers, Almanachen enz. door iederen Boekverkoper zullen mogen worden gedrukt, vertaald, enz., uitgezonderd voor als nog, die Almanachen of Tydwyzers, waar op door het voorig bestuur privilegie is verleend, en van wier privilegie de tyd nog niet is verlopen.
9. Dat die Staatsstukken welke als een Eigendom van het Volk van Holland moeten worden beschouwd, en op deszelfs kosten, op 's Lands-Drukkeryen worden gedrukt, en ten behoeven van 's Lands-Finantien worden uitgegeeven, zonder toestemming van deze Vergadering niet zullen worden nagedrukt, en uitgegeeven, dan in zodanige boeken waarin over 's Lands geschiedenissen wordt gehandelt, of in verzamelingen van Staatsstukken, of in Wet-boeken enz. waar omtrent alle Boekhandelaars gelyk recht zullen bezitten.
10. Dat alle Boekhandelaars zullen worden ver-


    

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