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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:  | | Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books, Heidelberg (1824) Source: Private Collection Citation: Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books (1824), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1824 Full title The Reprinting of Books from the Perspective of Roman Law Full title original language Der Büchernachdruck, nach Römischem Recht betrachtet Abstract Leopold Josef Neustetel's book on reprinting is a landmark in what can be described as a paradigm shift from property right to personality right within the German debate on justifying a ban on reprinting. Neustetel regards reprinting as an 'injuria' (infringement of another person's rights) within the system of Roman law. An unauthorised reprint is an offence against the author's personality, since a core part of the latter encompasses the right of the author to express himself and to set the boundaries of this expression. Twentieth-century scholars have seen Neustetel as "the first to deduce copyright from a personality right" (Gieseke). It was, as Martin Vogel puts it, his "personalistic view of copyright", rather than Kant's essay of 1785, which established the theory of author's rights as 'personality rights' ('Persönlichkeitsrechte') within the German context. Apart from Eduard Gans's important article of 1832, however, we find only few and cursory references to Neustetel's line of argument in the scholarly and legislative literature of the nineteenth century. The commentary gives some details on Neustetel's life and focuses on his concept of reprinting as an 'injuria'. Bibliography Gieseke, Ludwig, "Vom Privileg zum Urheberrecht. Die Entwicklung des Urheberrechts in Deutschland bis 1845" (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1995) Neustetel, Leopold Joseph and Sigmund Zimmern, "Römisch-rechtliche Untersuchungen für Wissenschaft und Ausübung" (Heidelberg: Carl Groos 1821) Vogel, Martin, "Deutsche Urheber- und Verlagsrechtsgeschichte zwischen 1450 und 1850", "Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens" 29 (1978): 1-180 Wadle, Elmar, "Nachdruck als Injurie", in his "Geistiges Eigentum. Bausteine zur Rechtsgeschichte" (Weinheim: VCH, 1996), 129-144 Related documents in this database Author Neustetel, Leopold Josef (1798-1825) Publisher Carl Groos Location Heidelberg Year 1824 Language German Source Private Collection Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Grolmann, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von (1775-1829) Mittermaier, Karl Joseph Anton von (1787-1867) Neustetel, Leopold Josef (1798-1825) Persons referred to in commentary Gans, Eduard (1797-1839) Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Neustetel, Leopold Josef (1798-1825) Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus (1772-1840) Zimmern, Regine Julie (1800-1870) Zimmern, Sigmund (1796-1830) Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary Hanau Hanover Heidelberg Nice Nonnenweiler (Baden) Offenbach Legislation referred to Bavarian Copyright Act 1814 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Federal Assembly (Bundestag) of the German Confederation Institutions referred to in commentary Heidelberg Law Faculty Heidelberg University Key words forgery fraud idea/expression imitation moral rights, divulgation (first publication) personality theory property theory, authors' property reprints Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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