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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:  | | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors, Paris (1762) Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22073 n°72 Citation: Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (1763), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1762 Full title Declaration by the King, concerning trade privileges. 24 December 1762. Full title original language Déclaration du Roy concernant les Priviléges en fait de Commerce. Du 24 décembre 1762. Abstract A primary source on the 'brevets d'invention' (patents for inventions), to use the term endorsed by the decree of 25 May, 1791, might not quite seem to warrant inclusion among fifty primary sources on copyright. However, as in Great Britain, the protection of inventions, and even of their inventors, is part of a common history, regarding both the means of protection - privileges - as such and the justifications of these. It is very revealing to contrast the alternative definitions of privileges, especially in the positive legislation of the time - i.e. that of the 1762 Déclaration, before the book trade regulations of 30 August, 1777. In addition, the booksellers themselves grounded some of their developments on such a comparison (see, in particular, Gaultier's memorandum: f_1776). The 1762 act was the first general attempt to regulate the trade in inventions and to protect on more solid grounds inventors and their eventual assignees. Previously, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the granting of privileges to inventors was more discretionary, sometimes agreed outside of any professional guild regulations. Normally, the award and duration of the royal favour, as in book trade privileges, was related to the invention's public utility, but also to the fact that it was actually contributing something new. After a presentation of these privileges, the commentary will discuss and compare the criteria involved (which were not always respected consistently), and juxtapose the 1762 purview with the 1777 book trade decree, thereby allowing us to compare the status of inventors with that of authors at the end of the ancien régime. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher G. Simon Location Paris Year 1763 Language French Source Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22073 n°72 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Louis XV (1710-1774) Phélypeaux, Louis, Duc de La Vrillière (1705-1777) Simon, Pierre-Guillaume (1722-1787) Persons referred to in commentary Alembert, Jean le Rond D' (1717-1783) Boileau, Etienne (c.1200-1270) Bonafusus de Sancta Columba (fl.1236) Boufflers, Stanislas Jean chevalier de (1738-1815) Bras-de-Fer, Jean, Sieur de Château-Fort (fl.1611) Briot, Nicolas (1579-1646) Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1466) Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Enfield, William (1741-1797) Faucheron, Adam (fl.1611) Fournière, Pierre de la (fl.1665) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Hargrave, Francis (1740/41-1821) Henry III (1207-1272) Lavisse, Ernest (1842-1922) Leblanc, François (1648-1698) Louis IX (1215-1270) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Maillet, François (fl.1661) Marillac, Michel de (1563-1632) Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas (1842-1905) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Trudaine, Daniel-Charles (1703-1769) Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques (1727-1781) Places referred to Paris Versailles Places referred to in commentary Aquitaine Auvergne Boulogne-la-Grasse England Florence Italy Lyon Paris Rouen Venice Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Venetian Statute on industrial brevets (1474) Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (1762) Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Parlement of Paris Institutions referred to in commentary Academy of Sciences (Paris) Bureau du Commerce Cour des Monnaies Paris Mint Parlement of Paris Key words authors' remuneration duration, prolongation of privileges French Revolution guild regulation guilds industrial revolution interest groups inventions lobbying monopoly novelty patronage perpetual protection privileges, French property theory, authors' property public good registration transferability utility Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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