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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1660 Full title New Regulation and Statutes Enacted by a Worthy and Most Wise Council of the City of Frankfurt-on-the-Main As to what is to be Adhered to Henceforth by the Printing-Offices of this City 9 February 1660 Full title original language Eines Edlen und Hochweisen Raths der Stadt Franckfurt am Mayn Erneuerte Ordnung und Artickel, Wie es fürterhin auff denen Buchdruckereyen dieser Stadt gehalten werden soll Abstract Frankfurt as a centre of the German book industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries regulated reprinting matters through several printers' ordinances. The Ordinance of 1660 is a well-known example and was in force until 1866. Apart from reprinting, diverse issues relating to the book industry are covered in it, such as censorship, competition between publishers, mechanisms to settle industrial disputes, an arbitration body, standard wages and insurance on a cooperative basis. The reprinting provisions, adopted from earlier ordinances, granted to the first local publisher of any book an exclusive right in perpetuity, which could not be overridden by Imperial privileges. The publisher's right also covered reprints of amended versions and obliged publishers not to accept a revised edition of an author whose original edition had been published by a local colleague. Reprints are explicitly allowed for the case that the first publisher fails to bring out a new edition within two years and thus does not satisfy readers' demand. The commentary covers early modern printers' ordinances in general and gives details on ordinances from Frankfurt (1578, 1588, 1598, 1660, 1690), Nuremberg (1561, 1673), and Augsburg 1713. Bibliography Gieseke, Ludwig. Vom Privileg zum Urheberrecht. Die Entwicklung des Urheberrechts in Deutschland bis 1845 (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1995) Gramlich, Jürgen, "Rechtsordnungen des Buchgewerbes im Alten Reich", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 41 (1994): 1-145 Related documents in this database Author Council of Frankfurt Publisher Spörlin Location Frankfurt Year 1660 Language German Source Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt Ffm W 554 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A Persons referred to in commentary Celtis, Conrad (1459-1508) Charles VI of Habsburg (1685-1740) Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Egenolph, Christian (1501-1555) Feyerabend, Sigmund (1528-1590) Johannes of Speyer (d.1470) Konrad, Humprecht (fl.1571) Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Peutinger, Konrad (1465-1547) Rösslin, Eucharius (c.1470-1526) Sauer, Johann (c.1600) Schlick, Arnolt (1460-after 1521) Places referred to Frankfurt Places referred to in commentary Altdorf Antwerp Augsburg Cologne Frankfurt Gdansk (Danzig) Genoa Haguenau Leipzig Nuremberg Strasbourg Venice Vienna Wittenberg Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Basel Printers' Statute 1531 Imperial Statute Book (Reichspolizeiordnung) 1548 Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1573 Imperial Statute Book (Reichspolizeiordnung) 1577 Frankfurt Printers' Regulation 1588 Saxon Statute 1594, On reprinting Strasbourg Printers' Ordinance 1619 Peace of Westphalia 1649 Hamburg Printers' Ordinance 1651 Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1660 Zurich Printers' Ordinance 1660 Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1673 Gdansk Printing Regulation 1684 Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1713 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Frankfurt City Council Frankfurt fair Institutions referred to in commentary Augsburg City Council Frankfurt City Council Frankfurt fair Imperial Books Commission (Frankfurt) Imperial Diet at Augsburg 1530 Nuremberg City Council Venetian Senate Key words abridgements anonymous works authenticity authorship, legal concept of book fairs book market book trade books, protected subject matter censorship defamation deposit duration editions, new employer/employee relations engravings, protected subject matter formalities free trade guild regulation guilds immoral works ingenuity interest groups lobbying penalties printing, history of privileges privileges, printing privileges, fictitious privileges, German Imperial property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property Reformation, the registration reprints secrecy societies, publishers' Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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