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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1549 Full title Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts of 1549, 1562, 1571, 1609, 1620, 1625, 1636, 1661, 1678, 1683, 1686, 1702, 1711, 1717 as published in 1724 Full title original language Codex Augusteus oder neuvermehrtes Corpus Juris Saxonici: worinnen die in dem Churfürstenthum Sachsen und dazu gehörigen Landen, auch denen Markgrafthümern Ober- und Niederlausitz, publicirte und ergangene Constitutiones, Decisiones, Mandata und Verordnungen enthalten, nebst einem Elencho, dienlichen Summarien und vollkommenen Registern, Mit Ihrer Königlichen Majestät in Pohlen, als Churfürstens zu Sachen, Allergnädigster Bewilligung ans Licht gegeeben und in richtige Ordnung gebracht von Johann Christian Lünig Abstract These thirteen mandates are concerned with censorship, guild regulations and reprinting. Publishers were advised to refrain from printing "slanderous writings" (1549), "infamous" (1683, 1702) or "defamatory works" (1571), and admonished that "nothing may be printed nor imported from elsewhere without having first passed the censorship" (1562, 1620). Censors were required "to sign their names" (1661) and printers to "pledge themselves under oath" to not print anonymous writings (1711). Bookbinders and other non-professionals were banned from the book trade (1678) and the Leipzig City Court was ordered to strictly enforce Electoral book privileges (1636). In 1625 the clarification was made that book privileges were not "issued in perpetuity" and in 1686 (in a mandate that was by and large copied from the Emperor's decree of 25 October 1685) it was stated that publishers were "to refrain from illicit reprinting which causes great harm to those who have honestly acquired books from their authors and who may well have obtained privileges for them". This wording was interpreted as a general ban of reprinting for both privileged and not-privileged books within a Rescript of 1798. However, this retrospective interpretation is not borne out by the practice of publishers and booksellers in Saxony over the course of the eighteenth century. Bibliography Gieseke, Ludwig, "Vom Privileg zum Urheberrecht" (Baden-Baden: Nomos 1995) Kapp, Friedrich, "Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels", vol.1 (Leipzig: Verlag des Börsenvereins der deutschen Buchhändler, 1886) Related documents in this database Author Johann Christian Lünig Publisher Son of Johann Friedrich Gleditsch (= Thomas Fritsch) Location Leipzig Year 1724 Language German Source Universität Freiburg, Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Frei 81: E 10 - 215 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Augustus I (1526-1586) Augustus of Saxony (1589-1615) Christian II (1583-1611) Dieterich, Cunrad (1575-1639) Frederick Augustus I (1670-1733) Hutter, Leonhard (1563-1616) Johann Georg I (1585-1656) Johann Georg II (1613-1680) Johann Georg III (1647-1691) Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Maurice I (1521-1553) Schertzer, Johann Adam (1628-1683) Persons referred to in commentary Leopold I (1640-1705) Places referred to Augsburg Dresden Frankfurt Giessen Leipzig Lübeck Speyer Torgau Wittenberg Places referred to in commentary Leipzig Saxony Legislation referred to Peace of Westphalia (1648) Codex Augusteus (Body of Electoral Saxon Law, published in 1724) Legislation referred to in commentary German Imperial Rescript (1685), forbidding illicit reprinting Cases referred to Sale of foreign reprints of Saxon privileged books in Saxony Sale of reprints of Luther's Bible and Hutter's Summaria in Leipzig Sale of reprints of C. Dieterich's Sermons on the Seven Penitential Sins Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Books Commission (Leipzig) Leipzig City Council Imperial Diet (Reichstag) at Augsburg 1548 Imperial Diet (Reichstag) at Speyer 1570 Leipzig fair Leipzig University Saxon State Chancery Supreme Consistory (Lutheran Church Council) in Dresden Wittenberg University Institutions referred to in commentary Leipzig City Court Key words anonymous works Bible, the book trade censorship censorship, pre-publication defamation deposit duration, prolongation of privileges guild regulation guilds immoral works importation licensing, Approbation licensing, Imprimatur newspapers penalties penalties, paid to fiscal authorities penalties, paid to publisher(s) price regulation printing, history of privileges privileges, fictitious privileges, Saxon religious works universities utility Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Photographic images and scans of public domain documents may be protected under some copyright laws and/or contractual restrictions apply. 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