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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Linguet's memorandum, London (1777) Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri, Annales politiques, civiles, et littéraire du XVIIIe siècle, tome III, Londres, 1777, p. 24. Citation: Linguet's memorandum (1777), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: f_1777b Full title Linguet's opinion on the Ruling of 30 August 1777 regarding privileges Full title original language Opinion de Linguet touchant l'arrêt sur les privilèges Abstract Linguet, a famous lawyer, using arguments already presented in a previous memorandum in favour of the author's perpetual property, was one of the most convincing opponents of the last piece of legislation concerning the book trade to be passed under the ancien régime. The 1770s had indeed been a period of increasing tensions between Parisian and provincial booksellers since Diderot's "Letter", forcing, as in England, lawyers of both sides to be more and more precise and persuasive in their arguments on the true nature of literary property. In fact, the various attempts during this period at carrying out liberal reforms of the corporatist organization - in particular under Turgot, the political mentor of Condorcet - may have been read by the Parisian guild as significant threats. The latter became real for the Parisian booksellers with the passing of the 1777 provisions on the duration of privileges, which provoked, as in England after Donaldson v. Becket (uk_1774), alarmist protests from the members of the guild. Linguet, using previous developments, attacked in particular the ambiguity of the definition of a privilege given by the king, and the inconsistency of such a definition with the recognition of the author's property. Like Louis d'Héricourt and Diderot before him, he also emphasized again the personal nature of the property recognized by these new provisions, and inferred from it an absolute contractual freedom for the author. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (1736-1794) Publisher N/A Location London Year 1777 Language French Source Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri, Annales politiques, civiles, et littéraire du XVIIIe siècle, tome III, Londres, 1777, p. 24. Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Alembert, Jean le Rond D' (1717-1783) Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711) Boisrobert, François le Métel de (1592-1662) Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne (1627-1704) Bourdaloue, Louis (1632-1794) Chapelain, Jean (1595-1674) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Hamilton, Anthony (c.1646-1720) La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) La Motte, Antoine Houdar de (1672-1731) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Marmontel, Jean François (1723-1799) Massillon, Jean Baptiste (1663-1742) Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) Pradon, Jacques (1632-1698) Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Socrates (469 B.C.-399 B.C.) Vanrobais, Josse (fl.1665) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Persons referred to in commentary Anne (1665-1714) d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, Sieur (1697-1782) Barre, Jean-François de la (1745-1766) Cochu, Joseph-Félicité (fl.1760-1771) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Desaint, Jean (d.1776) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Hell, François (d.1792) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Lakanal, Joseph (1762-1845) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Luneau de Boisjermain, Pierre-Joseph-Francois (1732-1801) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Pluquet, François-André-Adrien (1716-1790) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Séguier, Antoine-Louis (1726-1792) Places referred to Bordeaux England Holland Lyon Paris Reims Rouen Saint-Émilion Switzerland Tarbes Toulouse Places referred to in commentary England London Paris Legislation referred to Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) French Copyright Act 1793 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Case of the chevalier de la Barre (1766) Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Prud'homme v. J Dubus's widow and Bellanger (1869) Ct of Cassation Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Court of King's Bench House of Lords National Assembly (1789-1791) Parlement of Paris Key words author/publisher relations authors' remuneration authorship, legal concept of authorship, theory of book trade compilation contract counterfeit defamation duration duration, prolongation of privileges editions, new Enlightenment, the free trade guilds imitation, learning by immoral works industrial revolution interest groups inventions labour theory learning, the advancement of lobbying monopoly originality patents, for invention patronage perpetual protection personality theory piracy price regulation privileges, French property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public domain public good public performance reputation transferability utility Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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