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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:  | | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays, Berlin (1832) Source: Private Collection Citation: Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (1832), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1832 Full title "On the right to the performance of published stage plays", included in the collection: "Beiträge zur Revision der Preußischen Gesetzgebung" Full title original language Über das Recht zur Aufführung gedruckter Theaterstücke: in: Beiträge zur Revision der Preußischen Gesetzgebung Abstract This article by Eduard Gans was published in 1832 as part of a collection entitled "Contributions to the Revision of Prussian Legislation" ("Beiträge zur Revision der preußischen Gesetzgebung"). Gans presents a draft for a future law to protect the rights of authors of plays even after these have appeared in print. It is one of the first German documents to explicitly justify an author's rights in performances of his work by reference to an individual right vested in the author's person. Even if unrestricted performance rights were not to be granted before 1901 in Germany, this article did at least help to pave the way for the implementation of restricted performance rights through the Prussian Copyright Act of 1837 (d_1837a). This commentary will look at Gans's intellectual development from a "Hegelian un-baptised Christian" to a converted Protestant professor of law; at Gans's and Savigny's theories of property/ ownership and authors' rights; and at Gans's interesting contribution to the discussion which started around 1832 about possible amendments to Prussian copyright legislation. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Eduard Gans (1797-1839) Publisher Duncker & Humblot Location Berlin Year 1832 Language German Source Private Collection Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Neustetel, Leopold Josef (1798-1825) Persons referred to in commentary Drucker, Louis (fl.1838) Gans, Abraham (d.1813) Gans, Eduard (1797-1839) Gareis, Carl (1844-1923) Girardin, François Saint-Marc (1801-1873) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (1776-1822) Jourdan, Athanase (1791-1826) Kamptz, Karl Albert von (1769-1849) Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Kohler, Josef (1849-1919) Kramer, Wilhelm August (1798-d.a.1846) Lerminier, Eugène (1803-1857) Marx, Adolph Bernard (1795-1866) Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) Neustetel, Leopold Josef (1798-1825) Puchta, Georg Friedrich (1798-1846) Pütter, Johann Stephan (1725-1807) Rühs, Friedrich (1781-1820) Savigny, Friedrich Carl von (1779-1861) Svarez, Carl Gottlieb (1721-1801) Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus (1772-1840) Zunz, Leopold (1794-1886) Places referred to France Places referred to in commentary Berlin Frankfurt (Oder) Göttingen Heidelberg Paris Rhine Provinces (Prussian) Legislation referred to French law of 13 January 1791, concerning the works of living playwrights French legislation on theatre censorship Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Legislation referred to in commentary Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804 Code Pénal 1810 Edict on the civil status of Jews in the state of Prussia 1812 Prussian Copyright Act 1837 German law of 1901 recognising authors' unrestricted performance rights 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 Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews (Berlin) Berlin University Collége de France Frankfurt-on-the-Oder Provincial Court of Appeal Heidelberg University Prussian Ministry for the Revision of the Laws Prussian Ministry of Justice Prussian State Council (Staatsrat) Prussian Supreme Court Key words adaptation authors' remuneration authorship, legal concept of authorship, theory of defamation dramatic works, protected subject matter duration, post mortem term editions, new Enlightenment, the idea/expression licensing manuscript Napoleonic Wars personality theory privileges property theory property theory, authors' property public domain public performance reprints reputation royalty/royalties scribal publication Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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