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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 Copyright Act, Berlin (1837) Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt Citation: Prussian Copyright Act (1837), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1837a Full title Law for the Protection of Property in Works of Scholarship and the Arts against Reprinting and Reproduction Full title original language Gesetz zum Schutze des Eigentums an Werken der Wissenschaft und der Kunst gegen Nachdruck und Nachbildung Abstract The Act of 1837 was the most influential copyright statute in the German lands in the nineteenth century before the copyright legislation of the unified German Reich was enacted in 1870 and 1876. Though provisions in Baden had acknowledged the author's rather than the publishers' property in his works as early as 1806 and 1809 (d_1809), it was the Prussian Statute that for the first time comprised the core concepts of what has been termed a "modern" copyright: the author rather than the publisher was at the centre of the protection, and the protected subject matter consisted of abstract works, rather than specific physical goods. Copyright was thus extended to adaptations, to unpublished lectures and to performances of dramatic and musical works. Together with the Confederation's Directive of 1837 (d_1837b), the Prussian Statute set the standard for future copyright legislation. A detailed commentary on it was published in 1838 by Eduard Hitzig, the head of the Society of (Literary) Copyright Experts (d_1838), the establishment of which had been decreed in §§.17 and 31. Bibliography Hitzig, Julius Eduard. Das König. Preußische Gesetz vom 11. Juni 1837 zum Schutze des Eigenthums an Werken der Wissenschaft und Kunst gegen Nachdruck und Nachbildung / Dargest. in seinem Entstehen u. erl. in seinen einzelnen Bestimmungen aus den amtlichen Quellen (Berlin: Dümmler, 1838) reprinted in UFITA 107 (1988) 163-226, fulltext http://dlib-pr.mpier.mpg.de/m/kleioc/0010/exec/bigpage/"151874_00000001" Wadle, Elmar. "Das preußische Urheberrechtsgesetz von 1837 im Spiegel seiner Vorgeschichte". in: Geistiges Eigentum I ((Weinheim: VCH 1996. p. 167-222 Related documents in this database Author N.N. Publisher Gesetz=Sammlungs=Debits=und Zeitungs=Komtoir Location Berlin Year 1837 Language German Source Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Altenstein, Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr von Stein zum (1777-1840) Duesberg, Franz Gerhard Xaver von (1793-1872) Frederick William III (1770-1840) Kamptz, Karl Albert von (1769-1849) Karl Friedrich August, Duke of Mecklenburg (1785-1837) Mühler, Heinrich Gottlob von (1780-1857) Persons referred to in commentary Hitzig, Julius Eduard (1780-1849) Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (1776-1822) Places referred to Berlin Places referred to in commentary Baden Bavaria Berlin Braunschweig Hamburg Prussia Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Legislation referred to Prussian Copyright Act 1837 Legislation referred to in commentary Prussian Statute Book 1794 (ALR) Baden printing regulation 1806 Baden Statute Book 1809 Prussian Copyright Act 1837 Directive of reciprocal protection within the German Confederation (1837) Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870 Copyright Acts for the German Empire 1876 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Prussian Ministry for Religious, Educational, and Medical Affairs Prussian State Council Prussian State Ministry Prussian Supreme Board of Artistic Trustees Institutions referred to in commentary Prussian Association of Literary Experts Key words adaptation anonymous works applied art, protected subject matter architecture, protected subject matter attribute, obligation to authorship, corporate books, protected subject matter compilation drawings, protected subject matter duration duration, post mortem term editions, new engravings, protected subject matter imitation inheritability maps, protected subject matter music, protected subject matter oral works, protected subject matter originality penalties penalties, paid to author(s) penalties, paid to fiscal authorities public performance reciprocity registration reprints scholarly writing sculpture, protected subject matter serialisation societies, authors' societies, copyright translation, right of translations, protection of universities Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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