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Royal decree on the printing and publishing of state documents by individuals, Het Loo (1822)

Source: Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, Bibliotheek van het Boekenvak, archief KVB, inv. nr. KVB A 335

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Royal decree on the printing and publishing of state documents by individuals, Het Loo (1822), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Given the reports issued on this matter by Our Home Secretary and ministers of Water Management, of Finance, of Justice, and of Our Commissioner-General of War;

Having heard the advice of the Council of State,

Have decided and decreed:


Art. 1. Each and every one shall be free to reproduce in daily papers, news papers, and other periodicals, as well as in works concerning the history and politics of the State, all such state documents which are brought to the knowledge of the public in an official manner by order of the Government, as well as to print and publish these jointly or separately, unless the rights to the joint or separate printing, and to the exclusive publishing of such documents, are expressly reserved by Us for the purposes of the State's Printing House, or unless thereto may have been granted special licenses or patents by Us, without prejudice to previously, lawfully obtained patents or concessions.

2. The penal provisions against the reproduction of original documents contained in the Act of 25th January 1817, (Bulletin of Acts, Orders and Decrees No. 5) could and should


    

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Gezien de te dezer zake uitgebragte rapporten van Onze Ministers van Binnenlandsche Zaken en Waterstaat, van Financien, van Justitie en van Onzen Commissaris-Generaal van Oorlog;

Den Raad van State gehoord,

Hebben besloten en besluiten:


Art. 1. Het zal aan elk en een iegelijk vrijstaan om alle zoodanige staatsstukken als op eene officieele wijze van Gouvernementswege ter kennisse van het publiek zijn gebragt, in dagbladen, nieuwspapieren en andere periodieke geschriften, mitsgaders in werken, de geschied- en staatkunde van het Rijk betreffende, overtenemen, alsmede om dezelve gezamenlijk of afzonderlijk te drukken en uittegeven, ten zij het regt tot den gezamenlijken of afzonderlijken druk, en tot de uitsluitende uitgaven van zoodanige stukken, uitdrukkelijk door Ons, ten behoeve der lands drukkerij mogt zijn gereserveerd, of ten zij daartoe door Ons speciale vergunningen of octroijen mogten zijn verleend, en zulks zonder prejudicie van vorige wettig verkregene octroijen of concessien.

2. De bij de wet van den 25sten Januari 1817 (staatsblad no. 5), tegen het nadrukken van oorspronkelijke stukken, bedreigde strafbepalingen, zullen


    

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