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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1759 Full title Contract between an author, le Sieur d'Anville, and his booksellers (Desaint, Saillant and Durant) Full title original language N/A Abstract Even before the writer's work came to be qualified as a property, the contractual sphere asserted itself, in the course of the seventeenth century, as a sphere of freedom which allowed the author to affirm concretely his interests in the publication of his work. This private space was all the more important, given that the book trade regulations before the decree of 30 August 1777 were on the whole subservient to the corporative organisation of the market. Little by little we can see how it is no longer the author who has to be prepared to part with a sum of money should he wish to be published, but, rather, the bookseller/publisher, who accepts the principle of authorial remuneration. The latter comes to constitute a new source of revenue for the author, allowing him to emancipate himself from his traditional supports, such as the institution of patronage. As testified by the contract of the notable French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville with his publishers - a contract which is no doubt quite representative - this sum corresponded to the transfer of the manuscript, or, more generally, in the eighteenth century, of the work and the principal rights which were attached to it. However, even after this cession, the author could, again by means of the contract, retain access to his work - in particular, by reserving for himself the right to make corrections to the manuscript for the first or any subsequent editions. Here again, the book trade regulations did not offer any real protection to the author in this respect. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) Publisher unpublished Location N/A Year 1759 Language French Source Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22147 n°6 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, Sieur (1697-1782) Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques (1716-1795) Capperonnier, Jean (1716-1775) Desaint, Jean (d.1776) Durand, Laurent (1712-1763) Saillant, Charles (fl.1752-1765) Persons referred to in commentary d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, Sieur (1697-1782) Blondel, Pierre-Jacques (1683-1739) Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711) Bruyset, Jean-Marie (1719-1793) Chevillier, André (1636-1700) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Dancourt, Florent Carton (1661-1725) Desaint, Jean (d.1776) Desessarts, Jean-Baptiste (fl.1725-1730) Desprez, Guillaume (1630-1709) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Duchesne, Nicolas Bonaventure (1711-1765) Durand de Maillane, Pierre-Toussaint (1729-1814) Eloy d'Amerval (fl.1455-1508) Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey, Charles-Georges (1727-1800) Guéret, Gabriel (1641-1688) Guyon, Claude-Marie, abbé (1699-1771) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Le Breton, André François (1708-1779) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Luneau de Boisjermain, Pierre-Joseph-Francois (1732-1801) Prault, Laurent-François (1712-1780) Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Ribou, Pierre (c.1654-1719) Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778) Saugrain, Claude-Martin (1679-1750) Thomson, James (1700-1748) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Yates, Joseph (1722-1770) Places referred to Paris Places referred to in commentary England Lyon Paris Rouen Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Josse v. Malassis (1665) Luneau de Boisjermain v. Parisian Guild of Booksellers (1678-1679) Dancourt v. Ribou's widow (1725) Affaire des Demoiselles de La Fontaine (1761) Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Institutions referred to Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (Paris) Institutions referred to in commentary Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers Key words authors' remuneration author/publisher relations contract editions, new manuscript public utility reputation royalty/royalties transferability Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau 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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