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Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers, Paris (1690)

Source:
Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22119 n° 21

Citation:
Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (1690s), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
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Full title
Memorandum on the dispute which has arisen between the booksellers of Paris and those of Lyon, regarding the privileges and extensions of these which the King grants for the printing of books

Full title original language
Mémoire sur la contestation qui est entre les libraires de Paris et ceux de Lyon au sujet des privilèges et des Continuations que le Roy accorde pour l'impression des livres

Abstract
Following the effective destruction of the public domain entailed by the royal decrees and regulations of 1665 and 1686, this anonymous memorandum was one of the first to describe the right of exploitation safeguarded by privileges in terms of a private property. Anticipating in some respects the 1725 apology of the Parisian guild by Louis d'Héricourt, we find this 'mémoire' already then speaking of privileges as a guarantee for the labour invested in the publication of a work - a guarantee which could even become perpetual. The author of the work, on the other hand, was not yet central in any way to the theoretical system advanced by the Parisian booksellers in order to defend their monopolies.

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Location
Paris

Year
1690s

Language
French

Source
Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22119 n° 21

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Persons referred to
Arnauld d'Andilly, Robert (1588-1674)
Aubéry, Antoine (1616-1695)
Augustine, St (354-430)
Bertier, Antoine (fl.1636-1660)
Bilaine, Pierre (fl.1624-1644)
Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (c.490-c.580)
Combesis, Francisco (fl.1648)
Comenius (1592-1670)
Couterot, Edme (fl.1664-1715)
Cramoisy, Sébastien (1585-1669)
De la Haye, Jean (1593-1661)
De Sacy, Louis-Isaac Lemaistre, sieur (1613-1684)
Desprez, Guillaume (1630-1709)
Du Cange, Charles Dufresne, Sieur (1610-1688)
Furetière, Antoine (1619-1688)
Giunti, Filippo (c.1456-1517)
Giunti, Jacques (fl.1560-1580)
Goibaud-Dubois, Philippe (1626-1703)
Gonet, Jean Baptiste (c.1616-1681)
Le Jeune, Nicolas, Sieur de Franqueville (fl.1675-1691)
Le Petit, Pierre (c.1617-1686)
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Maimbourg, Louis (1610-1686)
Mazarin, Jules (1602-1661)
Meturas, Gaspard (fl.1648-1674)
Morin, Jean (1591-1659)
Pralard, André (1635-c.1721)
Rebuffé, Pierre (1487-1557)
Richelet, César-Pierre (1626-1698)
Richelieu, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de (1585-1642)
Tertullian (c.160-c.220)
Tinghi, Philippe (fl.1570-1586)

Persons referred to in commentary
Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752)

Places referred to
Amsterdam
Angoulême
Antwerp
Blois
Bordeaux
Caen
Champagne
England
Europe
Florence
France
Geneva
Germany
Grenoble
Limoges
Lyon
Madrid
Netherlands
Normandy
Nuremberg
Orleans
Paris
Reims
Rome
Rouen
Seville
Spain
Toulouse
Troyes
Venice

Places referred to in commentary
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Legislation referred to
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1665
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686

Legislation referred to in commentary
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1665
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686

Cases referred to
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Cases referred to in commentary
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Institutions referred to
Académie française
Collège de Montaigu (University of Paris)
King's Council of State (France)
Lyon Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Rouen Guild of Booksellers and Printers

Institutions referred to in commentary
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers

Key words
authors' remuneration
barter trade
book market
book trade
duration, prolongation of privileges
interest groups
lobbying
patronage
perpetual protection
printing, history of
privileges, French
property analogies
property theory, publishers' property
public domain
public good
religious works
renewal
scholarly writing
subscription
translations, protection of
utility

Responsible editor
Frédéric Rideau




Copyright status

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