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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:  | | Prussian Statute Book (ALR), Berlin (1794) Source: Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart A18/725-2,2 Citation: Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (1794), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1794 Full title Reprinting Provisions in the Prussian Statute Book, I 11 §§ 996-1036 and II 20 §§ 1294-1297 Full title original language Allgemeines Landrecht für die Preussischen Staaten Abstract The Prussian Statute Book (ALR) of 1794 is the first body of legislation in the German lands to pronounce a general ban on reprinting without formalities. The ALR provisions based copyright on a publishing contract, entitling the publisher to sue for damages anyone undertaking a pirate edition. Publishers must, however, secure the authors' approval before publishing an amended edition, for which authors may enter into a contract with another publisher, as long as they buy up at wholesale prices any remaining copies of the first edition. Although the provisions were amended significantly in the Prussian Copyright Act of 1837 (d_1837a), the ALR remained effective as a legal framework until the German Civil Code (BGB) of 1900. This commentary looks at Prussian privilege practice and earlier copyright regulations, as well as at the discussions generated by the proposed copyright provisions in the ALR, and how these were amended. The ALR editors had originally envisaged substantially stronger rights for authors, but eventually the publisher Friedrich Nicolai's view on authorship as an ideally non-commercial activity helped to push through provisions favouring the publishers. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author C. G. Svarez (1721-1801) and J. H. K. Graf von Carmer (1720-1801) Publisher Gottfried Carl Nauck Location Berlin Year 1794 Language German Source Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart A18/725-2,2 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Berger, Daniel (1744-1824) Frederick William II (1744-1797) Nauck, Gottfried Carl (fl.1793-1827) Persons referred to in commentary Abbt, Thomas (1738-1766) Biester, Johann Erich (1749-1816) Boyer, Jean-Baptiste de, Marquis d'Argens (1703-1771) Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel (1719-1794) Brönner, Johann Carl (1738-1812) Carmer, Johann Heinrich (1720-1821) Darjes, Joachim Georg (1714-1791) Faber, L. G. (fl.1776) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814) Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786) Frederick William II (1744-1797) Fritsch, Caspar (1677-1745) Gedicke, Friedrich (1754-1803) Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott (1715-1769) Goßler, Christoph (1752-1816) Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645) Hechtel, Daniel Christoph (fl.1776) Hemmerde, Carl Hermann (1708-1782) Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Kircheisen, Karl David (1704-1770) Klein, Ernst Ferdinand (1743-1810) Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (1724-1803) Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781) Locke, John (1632-1704) Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786) Münchhausen, Ernst Friedemann, Baron von (1724-1784) Mylius, August (fl.1765-1794) Nicolai, Friedrich (1733-1811) Pauli, Joachim (1733-1812) Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (1632-94) Pütter, Johann Stephan (1725-1807) Reich, Philipp Erasmus (1717-1787) Richter, Paul Emanuel (fl.1744-1776) Rüdiger, Johann Heinrich, Jr. (fl.1744-1765) Scherer, Sebastian Anton (d.1791) Stahlbaum, Christian Friedrich (1752-1788) Svarez, Carl Gottlieb (1721-1801) Voß, Christian Friedrich (1722-1795) Weidmann, Moritz Georg, Sr. (1658-1693) Wendler, Johann (1712-1799) Zedlitz, Karl Abraham, Baron von (1731-1793) Places referred to Berlin Frankfurt Leipzig Places referred to in commentary Altenburg (Thuringia) Berlin France Frankfurt Halle Holland Leipzig Legislation referred to Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Prussian Cabinet Order (1766), forbidding all reprinting Saxonian Statute (1773), on regulation of the book trade French Copyright Act 1793 Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Baden Statute Book 1809 Prussian Copyright Act 1837 Austrian Copyright Act 1846 Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870 German Civil Code 1900 (BGB) U.S. Copyright Act 1976 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Reich v. Pauli (1765) Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Klopstock v. Hemmerde (1778) Institutions referred to Frankfurt fair Leipzig fair Institutions referred to in commentary Frankfurt City Council Frankfurt fair German Publishers' & Booksellers' Association (1765) Haude & Spener publishing house (f.1640) Leipzig fair Leipzig University Prussian Ministry of Justice Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt (f.1680) Key words almanacs author/publisher relations authors, self-publishing authors' remuneration authorship, joint or collaborative authorship, theory of book fairs book trade books, protected subject matter commissions contract contracts, regulation of editions, new engravings, protected subject matter Enlightenment, the French Revolution importation maps, protected subject matter music, protected subject matter natural rights penalties piracy privileges privileges, German Imperial privileges, Prussian privileges, Saxon property theory property theory, publishers' property reciprocity royalty/royalties scholarly writing transferability translations, of contemporary works translations, protection of 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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