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Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence, London (1818)

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ProQuest: Parliamentary Papers (1818) Paper No.280, IX.257-423

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Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (1818), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Copyright Acts 8 Anne, c.19; 15 Geo.III, c.53; 41 Geo.III, c.107; and 54 Geo.III, c.116, (1818) Paper No.280, IX.257-423

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1818

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ProQuest: Parliamentary Papers (1818) Paper No.280, IX.257-423

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Aberdeen
America
Basel
Cambridge
Dublin
Edinburgh
Egypt
England
Europe
France
Great Britain
India
Ireland
Italy
Lincoln
London
Oxford
Paris
Portugal
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Legislation referred to
An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1649
Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
Copyright Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1777, 17 Geo.III, c.57
U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790)
French Copyright Act 1793
Act of Union, 1800, 40 Geo.III, c.38
Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107
Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156

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Cases referred to
Beckford v. Hood (1798) 7 D. & E. 620
University of Cambridge v. Bryer (1812) 16 East's 317

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Antiquarian Society, London
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bodleian Library, Oxford
British Museum
Cabinet des Estampes (Print Room, National Library, Paris)
Cambridge University Library
Christ Church College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Court of King's Bench
Downing College, Cambridge
East India Company
Exeter College, Oxford
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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Institut de France
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Dublin
University and King's College of Aberdeen
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University of St. Andrews

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Key words
advertising
Anglo-American
author/publisher relations
authors, self-publishing
book market
book trade
classics, Greek and Latin
deposit
editions, new
employer/employee relations
foreign reprints
incentives
law books
libraries
lobbying
scholarly writing
subscription
taxation
universities

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Ronan Deazley




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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK