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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:  | | Royal Commissioners' Report, London (1878) Source: ProQuest: Parliamentary Papers (1878) xxiv, C.2036 Citation: Royal Commissioners' Report (1878), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: uk_1878 Full title Report of the Royal Commission on Copyright, 1878, xxiv, C.2036 Full title original language N/A Abstract The first major governmental review of the national, colonial, and international copyright regime. The commentary explores the background to the Royal Commission and in particular the efforts of the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Authors in lobbying for law reform. The commentary also explores the extent to which debates about free trade and monopoly commended the attention of the Commissioners and provided a challenge to the dominant conception of copyright - that is, copyright as a property right. The Report affirmed that copyright should continue to be regarded as a property right, and acknowledged the need for reform and consolidating legislation. Beyond that, however, the Commissioners were in considerable disagreement as to copyright's purpose and proper scope, with few of the Report's major recommendations receiving the unanimous support of the same. Bibliography Feather, J., Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain (London, Mansell, 1994) Saint-Amour, Paul K., The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) Seville, C., The Internationalisation of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Related documents in this database Author Royal Commission Publisher N/A Location London Year 1878 Language English Source ProQuest: Parliamentary Papers (1878) xxiv, C.2036 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Amos, Sheldon (1835-1886) Bain, Alexander (1818-1903) Barry, Charles, Jr. (1823-1900) Benedict, Sir Julius (1804-1885) Bethell, Richard, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873) Blaine, Delabere Roberton (1807-1871) Bourke, Robert, Baron Connemara (1827-1902) Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) Cairns, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl (1819-1885) Charles II (1630-1685) Cooke, Josiah Parsons (1827-1894) Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt (1825-1914) Courtenay, William Reginald, 11th Earl of Devon (1807-1888) Cross, Richard Assheton, 1st Viscount Cross (1823-1914) Daldy, Frederick Richard (fl.1854-1886) Dicey, Edward (1832-1911) Erle, William (1793-1880) Eyre, George Edward (1804-1887) Farrer, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Farrer (1819-1899) Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894) Gavard, Charles (d.1893) Herschell, Farrer, 1st Baron Herschell (1837-1899) Holland, Sir Henry Thurstan, 1st Viscount Knutsford (1825-1914) Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) Jenkins, John Edward (1838-1910) Jenkyns, Sir Henry (1838-1899) Jones, John Winter (1805-1881) Lyttelton, George William, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876) Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859) Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Manners, Lord John James Robert (1818-1906) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Marey, Etienne Jules (1830-1903) Maudsley, Henry (1835-1918) Morrill, Lot Myrick (1813-1883) Pettigrew, James Bell (1834-1908) Putnam, George Haven (1844-1930) Rose, Sir John (1820-1888) Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of (1847-1929) Schmidt, Eduard Oscar (1823-1886) Smith, William Henry, Jr. (1825-1891) Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903) Spottiswoode, William (1825-1883) Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames (1829-1894) Stewart, Balfour (1828-1887) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) Tyndall, John (1820-1893) Victoria (1819-1901) Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm (1834-1898) Whitney, William Dwight (1827-1894) Wodehouse, John, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902) Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond (1830-1908) Wood, William Page, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801-1881) Woolner, Thomas (1826-1892) Young, Sir Charles Lawrence (1839-1887) Persons referred to in commentary Allingham, William (1824-1889) Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) Benedict, Sir Julius (1804-1885) Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933) Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915) Cameron, Dr Charles (1841-1924) Cobden, Richard (1804-1865) Cook, Dutton (1831-1883) Copinger, Walter Arthur (1847-1910) Courtenay, William Reginald, 11th Earl of Devon (1807-1888) Daldy, Frederick Richard (fl.1854-1886) Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz (1837-1896) Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Edwards, Henry Sutherland (1828-1906) Farrer, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Farrer (1819-1899) Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894) Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Hatton, Joseph (1841-1907) Herschell, Farrer, 1st Baron Herschell (1837-1899) Holland, Sir Henry Thurstan, 1st Viscount Knutsford (1825-1914) Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) Jenkins, John Edward (1838-1910) Jerrold, Blanchard (1826-1884) Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron (1803-1873) McCarthy, Justin (1830-1912) Macfie, Robert Andrew (1811-1893) Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Manners, Lord John James Robert (1818-1906) Reade, Charles (1814-1884) Rice, James (1844-1882) Rose, Sir John (1820-1888) Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895) Shaw-Lefevre, George, 1st Baron Eversley (1831-1928) Smith, William Henry, Jr. (1825-1891) Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames (1829-1894) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Taylor, Tom (1817-1880) Thomas, Moy (1828-1910) Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward, 1st Baronet (1807-1886) Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) Walford, Edward (1823-1898) Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond (1830-1908) Young, Sir Charles Lawrence (1839-1887) Places referred to America Belgium Canada England France Germany Great Britain India Ireland Italy Netherlands Paris Portugal Russia Spain Places referred to in commentary America British North America Canada England France Glasgow Great Britain London Westminster Legislation referred to Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38 Copyright Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53 Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.56 Dutch Law of 25 January 1817, relating to literary and artistic property Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15 Publication of Lectures Act, 1835, 5 & 6 Will.IV, c.65 Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.59 Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12 Spanish Copyright Act (10 June 1847) Foreign Reprints Act, 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95 Indian Act 1847 (Act XX: "An act for the encouragement of learning in the territories subject to the government of the East India Company") Portuguese Copyright Act (18 July 1851) Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851 International Copyright Act, 1852, 15 & 16 Vict., c.12 Russian Council of State decree (1857), extending duration of p.m.a. term Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68 Italian Copyright Act 1865 French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866 Canadian Copyright Act, 1868, 31 Vict., c.54 U.S. Copyright Act 1870, 16 Stat. 198 Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870 Canadian Copyright Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.53 Belgian copyright legislation Legislation referred to in commentary Foreign Reprints Act, 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95 Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851 Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, 28 & 29 Vict., c.63 British North America Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict., c.3 Canadian Copyright Act, 1868, 31 Vict., c.54 Canadian Copyright Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.53 Berne Convention 1886 Copyright Act, 1911, 1 & 2 Geo.V, c.46 Cases referred to Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329 Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Coleman v. Wathen (1793) 5 D. & E. 245 Cary v. Kearsley (1804) 4 Esp. 168 Murray v. Elliston (1822) 5 B. & Ald. 657, The Times, 4 May 1822 Abernethy v. Hutchinson (1825) 1 H. & TW. 28 D'Almaine v. Boosey (1835) 1 Y. & C. 288 Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass. Cocks v. Purday (1846) 2 Car. & K. 269 Prince Albert v. Strange (1849), 1 Hall & T., 18 L.J. Ch. 120 Jeffreys v. Boosey (1854) 4 HLC 815 Sweet v. Benning (1855) 16 C.B. 459 Reade v. Conquest (1861) 9 CB (NS) 755 Mayall v. Higbey (1862) Low v. Routledge (1865-1868) Cox v. Land and Water Journal Company (1869) LR 9 Eq. 324 Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Appleton & Co., American publishing firm Bibliothèque nationale de France Board of Trade Bodleian Library, Oxford British Museum Cambridge University Library Colonial Office, London Court of Sessions, Scotland Eton College Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh G. P. Putnam & Sons, American publishing firm (est.1866) House of Commons House of Lords Royal Commission on Copyright Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall Trinity College, Dublin U.S. Senate University and King's College of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Oxford University of St Andrews Westminster School Winchester College Institutions referred to in commentary Association for the Protection of the Rights of Authors Board of Trade Canadian Embassy, London Foreign Office, London Parliament Royal Commission on Copyright Key words abridgements Anglo-American books, protected subject matter common law copyright deposit derivatives dramatic works, protected subject matter duration engravings, protected subject matter free trade international agreements, bilateral music, protected subject matter newspapers oral works, protected subject matter paintings, protected subject matter photography, protected subject matter royalty/royalties sculpture, protected subject matter translation, right of translations, protection of unpublished works Responsible editor Ronan Deazley Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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