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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:  | | Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers, Heidelberg (1827) Source: Private Collection Citation: Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (1827), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1827b Full title The Rights of Writers and Publishers Full title original language Die Rechte der Schriftsteller und Verleger Abstract Wilhelm August Kramer (1798-after 1846) was matriculated as a law student at Heidelberg University on 22 October, 1825. Kramer assumes an author's "property" in the "writing" ('Schrift'), i.e. "an utterance, which, delimited by specific words and permanently represented by visible characters, contains a complete thought". Even a single sentence is an object of copyright, and similarly in the case of a translation. As a result of this focus on the "writing", Kramer succeeds in including music by means of an analogy between musical notes and written characters. As a consequence of his strict property approach, Kramer in principle acknowledges no termination of intellectual property, if not specified by the government. In Kramer's system the author has a strong position vis-à-vis the publisher, who is "obliged to distribute the writing only within the circle which the author has indicated to him" and is not authorised to change the work as provided in the manuscript. Although no other juridical book or article was published under his name, Kramer's book on copyright was quite important throughout the 1830s. Bibliography Gieseke, Ludwig, "Vom Privileg zum Urheberrecht. Die Entwicklung des Urheberrechts in Deutschland bis 1845" (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1995) Vogel, Martin, "Deutsche Urheber- und Verlagsrechtsgeschichte zwischen 1450 und 1850", "Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens" 29 (1978): 1-180 Wadle, Elmar, "Geistiges Eigentum" (Weinheim: VCH, 1996) Related documents in this database Author Kramer, Wilhelm August Publisher C.F. Winter Location Heidelberg Year 1827 Language German Source Private Collection Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Binder, Nicolaus (1785-1865) Dammert, Johann Ludewig (1788-1855) Kramer, Wilhelm August (1798-d.a.1846) Persons referred to in commentary Binder, Nicolaus (1785-1865) Dammert, Johann Ludewig (1788-1855) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814) Kramer, Wilhelm August (1798-d.a.1846) Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary Hamburg Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Heidelberg Law Faculty Heidelberg University Key words author/publisher relations idea/expression moral rights, integrity music, protected subject matter property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property 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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