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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:  | | Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books", Leipzig and Halle (1740) Source: Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen 34 A 398 [Reprint Edition of 1995] Citation: Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" (1740), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1740 Full title Anonnymous article by Johann Abraham Birnbaum on "The Reprinting of Books" for Zedler's Encyclopaedia Full title original language Article "Nachdruck derer Bücher", in "Zedlers Universal-Lexicon" vol.23, col.60-80 Abstract The anonymous article on "The Reprinting of Books" in vol. 23 of Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706-1751)'s encyclopaedia, the "Großes Universal-Lexikon", was mainly based on an earlier book by Johann Abraham Birnbaum (1702-1748) that had also been published anonymously. There is no direct evidence for Birnbaum's authorship of the article, but it does seem very likely given that many editors of the Zedler "Universal-Lexikon" were based at Leipzig University, where Birnbaum himself taught as a lecturer in rhetoric. Birnbaum acknowledges an intellectual property of the author and identifies physical and non-physical aspects of the book. The author's disposal of the manuscript, however, is in Birnbaum's view a "complete cession of all rights associated with it which otherwise belong exclusively to the work's author." Ironically, Zedler's 64-volume "Universal-Lexikon" (the first volume of which was published in Leipzig in 1731) was at first confiscated by the authorities because many of its scholarly articles had evidently been plagiarised from encyclopaedias brought out by other Leipzig publishers. A few years later, to compound the irony, the Universal-Lexikon in its turn would be illegally reprinted, after Zedler's Imperial privilege was revoked in 1737, possibly under pressure of the reprinter himself, Johann Ernst Schultze, a publisher based in the Bavarian town of Hof. Bibliography Gieseke, Ludwig, "Vom Privileg zum Urheberrecht" (Baden-Baden: Nomos 1995) Quedenbaum, Gerd, "Der Verleger und Buchhändler Joahnn Heinrich Zedler 1706-1751" (Hildesheim: Olms, 1977) Wittmann, Reinhold, "Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels" (Munich: Beck, 1999) Related documents in this database Author Johann Abraham Birnbaum (1702-1748) Publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler Location Leipzig and Halle Year 1740 Language German Source Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen 34 A 398 [Reprint Edition of 1995] Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Aristophanes (c.448 B.C.-c.388 B.C.) Berger, Johann Heinrich von (1657-1732) Beier, Adrian (1634-1698) Birnbaum, Johann Abraham (1702-1748) Bode, Heinrich (1652-1720) Böhmer, Justus Henning (1674-1749) Carpzov, Benedict Jr (1595-1666) Marchand, Prosper, (c.1675-1756) Chevillier, André (1636-1700) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Erasmus (1466/69-1536) Froben, Johann (c.1460-1527) Johann Georg I (1585-1656) Johann Georg II (1613-1680) Charles V of Habsburg (1500-1558) Hess, Johann Stephan (d.1725) Le Cointe, Charles (d.1611) Lederer, Michael Friedrich (1639-1674) Leyser, Augustin von (1683-1752) Lentz, Christian (d.1650) Ludewig, Johann Peter von (1668-1743) Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Mencke, Lüder (1658-1726) Moscherosch, Johann Michel (1601-1689) Moses Müller, August Friedrich (1684-1761) Romanus, Paul Franz (1641-1675) St Paul the Apostle (c.5-67) Scriver, Christian Gotthold (1629-1693) Sextus Pomponius (c.120 A.D.) Simon, Père Richard (1638-1712) Stryk, Samuel (1640-1710) Süstermann, Johann Melchior (fl.1696-1718) Theodosius I, the Great (c.346-395) Trentacinquius, Alessandro (d.1599) Valens (328-378) Werner, Johann Balthasar (1675-1742) Zeno (c.440-491) Ziegler, Caspar (1621-1690) Persons referred to in commentary Birnbaum, Johann Abraham (1702-1748) Schultze, Johann Ernst (fl.1738) Zedler, Johann Heinrich (1706-1751) Places referred to England Erfurt France Halle Hamburg Holland Paris Schweinfurt Places referred to in commentary Hof (Bavaria) Leipzig Legislation referred to Saxon code of common law Saxon Royal Edict 1661 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to Süstermann v. Geffen (1723) Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Erfurt law faculty Giessen law faculty Helmstadt law faculty Jena law faculty Leipzig law faculty Wittenberg law faculty Institutions referred to in commentary Leipzig University Key words authors, self-publishing authorship, legal concept of barter trade Bible, the book trade catechisms contract divine law duration duration, prolongation of privileges editions, new fraud free trade guilds learning, the advancement of monopoly natural rights penalties piracy price regulation privileges privileges, German Imperial privileges, printing property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public good royalty/royalties scholarly writing subscription transferability Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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