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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:  | | Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities", Tübingen (1867) Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt Citation: Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" (1867), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1867 Full title "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities", chapter in Albert Schäffle, "The political economic theory of exclusive markets including copyrights, patents and trademarks" (1867) Full title original language "Das Autorrecht als künstliche Sicherung der Lohn- und der Lohnrentenfunction", in: "Die nationalökonomische Theorie der ausschliessenden Absazverhältnisse: insbesondere des litterarisch-artistischen Urheberrechtes, des Patent-, Muster- Firmenschuzes" Abstract Albert Schäffle (1831-1903) was a professor of economics at the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and for some months in 1871 served as the Austrian Minister of Commerce. As an economist the aim of his work on copyright is to find an appropriate term of protection rather than to justify authors' rights as such or to define the position of these rights within the system of private law. According to Schäffle, the exclusive rights of authors and publishers could be justified from an economic point of view only, because a work is available everywhere at the same time, thus enabling others to market the same product produced at a lower cost. Exclusive rights, on the other hand, are rejected by Schäffle in those cases where an "identical product of the same quality cannot be produced at lower costs". Schäffle's economic view on copyright was new and unique, but had nearly no bearing at all on subsequent copyright discourse in Germany. Bibliography Götz von Olenhusen, Albrecht, "'Ewiges geistiges Eigentum' und 'Sozialbindung' des Urheberrechts in der Rechtsentwicklung und Diskussion im 19. Jahrhundert in Frankreich und Deutschland", in Wilhelm Herschel, Heinrich Hubmann and Manfred Rehbinder (eds), "Festschrift für Georg Roeber zum 10. Dezember 1981" (Freiburg: Hochschulverlag, 1982), 83-111 Prosi, Gerhard, "Ökonomische Theorie des Buches" (Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann, 1971) Related documents in this database Author Albert Schäffle (1831-1903) Publisher Laupp Location Tübingen Year 1867 Language German Source Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich (1831-1903) Persons referred to in commentary Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich (1831-1903) Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary Germany Tübingen Vienna 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 University of Tübingen University of Vienna Key words duration property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' 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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