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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:  | | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna, (1815) Source: Scanned from a reprint edition (Reutlingen: Gryphius Verlag, 1971). The original used for scanning was the copy from Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen Citation: Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (1815), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Commentary Record-ID: d_1815a Full title Publishers' petition to the Congress of Vienna (1814-15), presented here in an annotated version reflecting the point of view of the reprinting publishers and entitled "Crisis of the German Book Trade Caused by German Publishers". It was actually an annotated reprint of the "Memorandum on the reprinting of books, including a petition for a German state law against this. Submitted with the greatest respect to the illustrious envoys of the German States at the Congress of Vienna in the name of the German book publishers" (Leipzig: Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1814) Full title original language Die Krisis des deutschen Buchhandels, herbeigeführt durch deutsche Buchhändler. Oder abgedrungene Beleuchtung der Denkschrift über den Büchernachdruck Abstract In Article 18d of the constitution for the German Confederation, the German Federal Act, signed in Vienna on 8 June 1815, the member states declared that "the Federal Assembly will work at the drawing up of uniform provisions on the freedom of the press and the protection of the rights of authors and publishers against reprinting" (see the commentary for d_1837b). The declaration was supported by a petition of six publishers, among them the Stuttgart-based Johann Friedrich Cotta, who like the publisher of the petition, J.J. Mäcken (a notorious reprinter, based in Reutlingen), was a Württemberg subject. Our document is a reprint of this petition, enlarged with anonymously added footnotes which seek to unveil the lobbying activity as motivated by pure greed and avarice. Mäcken had applied for a license from the Württemberg censorship authority on 22 December 1814 and was permitted to publish the petition on the condition that he left out an offensive remark about Cotta. Since the German Federal Act did eventually include a declaration about the need to regulate reprinting, Cotta and his rivals all pinned their hopes on the Federal Assembly. However, no major step was taken by the latter until the mid-1830s. In Württemberg, however, reprinting of books from other states continued to be an important business until the promulgation of the Württemberg Copyright Act in 1838. Bibliography Gergen, Thomas, "Die Nachdruckprivilegienpraxis Württembergs im 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Bedeutung für das Urheberrecht im Deutschen Bund" (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007) Widmann, Hans, "Aus der Geschichte des Reutlinger Druck- und Verlagswesens", in J.U. Hebsaker (ed.), "Rückblick für die Zukunft. Berichte über Bücher, Buchhändler und Verleger" (Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblin 1968), 27-107 Related documents in this database Author N.N. [Mäcken] Publisher J. J. Mäcken Location N/A Year 1815 Language German Source Scanned from a reprint edition (Reutlingen: Gryphius Verlag, 1971). The original used for scanning was the copy from Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bertuch, Friedrich Justin (1747-1822) Böhmer, Justus Henning (1674-1749) Charles VI of Habsburg (1685-1740) Cotta, Johann Georg (1631-1692) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814) Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte (1777-1843) Göbhardt, Tobias (1734-1794) Gundling, Nikolaus Hieronymus (1671-1729) Hartknoch, Johann Friedrich Jr (1769-1819) Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Kummer, Paul Gotthelf (1757-1835) La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Napoleon I (1769-1821) Pütter, Johann Stephan (1725-1807) Richter, Carl Friedrich Enoch (d.1831) Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805) Schlettwein, Johann August (1731-1802) Sonnenfels, Joseph von (1732-1817) Vogel, Friedrich Christian Wilhelm (1776-1842) Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Werner, Johann Balthasar (1675-1742) Persons referred to in commentary Cotta, Johann Friedrich (1764-1832) Kummer, Paul Gotthelf (1757-1835) Mäcken, Johann Jakob, Jr. (fl.1801-1822) Places referred to Bamberg Berlin Göttingen Hanover Leipzig Meissen Saxony St Petersburg Stuttgart Vienna Places referred to in commentary Reutlingen Stuttgart Vienna Württemberg Legislation referred to Saxonian Statute 1686 Saxonian Statute (1773), on regulation of the book trade Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Legislation referred to in commentary German Federal Act 1815 Directive of reciprocal protection within the German Confederation (1837) Württemberg Copyright Act 1838 Cases referred to Remonstrance by Electorate of Hanover to the City of Frankfurt, concerning reprinting (1753) Nuremberg reprint of a book published by the Russian Academy of Sciences (1755) Complaint by Electorate of Hanover to the Privy Council of Bamberg, regarding the reprinter Göbhardt (1768) Cases referred to in commentary Cotta v. Mäcken (1813) Institutions referred to J G Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart (f.1659) Leipzig Law Faculty Russian Academy of Sciences Wittenberg Law Faculty Institutions referred to in commentary Federal Assembly (Bundestag) of the German Confederation J G Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart (f.1659) Key words author/publisher relations authors' remuneration book trade censorship contract counterfeit forgery idea/expression imitation incentives international agreements, multilateral learning, the advancement of monopoly moral rights moral rights, divulgation (first publication) Napoleonic Wars originality piracy price regulation privileges property analogies property theory, publishers' property public good public performance reprints scholarly writing transferability universities Vienna Congress Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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