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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1776 Full title Memorandum for consultation by the Booksellers and Printers from Lyon, Rouen, Toulouse, Marseille, and Nisme, concerning book trade privileges and their prolongations Full title original language N/A Abstract This mémoire by the lawyer Gaultier (probably Jean-François Gaultier de Biauzat, the future delegate to the Estates General), published in 1776, in the thick of the 'battle of the booksellers', is one of the most famous vindications of the provincial booksellers, in particular those of Lyon and Rouen. It provided an answer for the last time, before the legislative decisions of 30 August 1777, to the arguments of the Parisian booksellers who ever since Louis d' Héricourt had been defending a (perpetual) literary property right of the author on his work. Describing the state of the book trade and the lobbying methods of the Parisian corporation in detail, Gaultier also presented a traditional vision of book trade privileges as the only source of exclusiveness for a published work. For the provincial booksellers, the latter did not comprise, by its creation process, sufficiently specific characteristics to truly differentiate it from the invention. Consequently, privileges which guaranteed exploitation to a publisher were to be as limited as those granted to inventors. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Jean-François Gaultier de Biauzat Publisher Imprimerie Alexandre-Antelme Belion Location Lyon Year 1776 Language French Source Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22073 n°144 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Aguesseau, Henri-François d' (1668-1751) Angot, Charles (fl.1660-1684) Anisson, Jean (d.1721) Anisson, Laurent (fl.1670-1677) Aquinas, St Thomas (1225-1274) Arnauld, Antoine (1612-1694) Augustine, St (354-430) Badius, Josse (1462-1535) Barret, Jean-Marie (fl.1760-1778) Baskerville, John (1706-1775) Bérulle, M. de (fl.1694) Bouchel, Laurent (1588-1629) Briasson, Antoine-Claude (1700-1775) Cardon, Horace (d.1641) Cellot, Louis-Marie (fl.1765-1786) Chénon, Pierre (fl.1751-1791) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Clement XIV (1705-1774) Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683) Couret de Villeneuve, Louis-Pierre (1749-1806) De La Roche, Aimé (fl.1768-1792) De La Roche, Léonard (fl.1712) Desaint, Jean (d.1776) Desaint, la veuve (fl.1771-1790) Desprez, Guillaume (1630-1709) Didot, François (b.1699) Didot, François-Ambroise (1730-1801) Didot, Pierre-François (1732-1795) Dolet, Etienne (1509-1546) Dorez, J. J. (fl.1776-1784) Du Bray, Toussant (1604-1636) Du Cange, Charles Dufresne, Sieur (1610-1688) Duchesne, la veuve (fl.1760-1791) Duplain, Benoît (c.1740-c.1773) Duplain, Joseph (fl.1776) Durand, Laurent (1712-1763) Estienne, Henri II (1528-1598) Estienne, Robert (1723-1794) Eve, Clovis (fl.1584-1644) Foulis, Andrew (1712-1775) Foulis, Robert (1707-1776) Frederick II (1720-1785) Frellon, Jean (fl.1542-1561) Frellon, François (fl.1542-1561) Furgole, Jean Baptiste (1690-1761) Gaguin, Robert (1433-1501) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Gonnelieu, Jérôme de (1640-1715) Grabit, Joseph-Sulpice (fl.1769-1790) Grasset, François (1723-1789) Gryphe, Antoine (fl.1566-1581) Gryphe, Sébastien (c.1492-1556) Henri IV (1553-1610) Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) Huguetan, Jean Antoine (1567-1650) Josse, Georges (fl.1665-1693) Jullieron, Antoine (d.1702) Jullieron, Guichard (fl.1594-1622) Junte, Jacques (fl.1522-1564) La Beaumelle, Laurent Angliviel de (1726-1773) Lallemant, Nicolas (fl.1763) Lallemant, Richard-Gontran (1725-1807) Lallemant, Xavier-Félix (1729-1810) Lamoignon, Guillaume II, seigneur de Blancmesmil et de Malesherbes (1683-1772) Langelier, Abel (1574-1610) Langelier, la veuve (fl.1610-1620) Le Brun, Denis (1640-1706) Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît (fl.1775-1800) Le Jay, M. (fl.1769-1793) Leonard, Frédéric (fl.1670) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Louis XVI (1754-1793) Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de (1721-1794) Mesenguy, François-Philippe, Abbé (1677-1763) Mettayer, Pierre (d.1639) Muguet, François (c.1700) Nicole, Pierre (1625-1695) Phélypeaux, Louis (1643-1727) Phélypeaux, Louis, Duc de La Vrillière (1705-1777) Posuel, Jean (fl.1689-1718) Regnault, Gabriel (fl.1774-1781) Rigaud, Benoist (fl.1570) Rigaud, Pierre (fl.1558-1615) Rigaud, Simon (fl.1616) Rovillé, Guillaume (1518-1589) St Francis of Sales (1567-1622) St Jerome (c.342-420) Sartine, Antoine de (1729-1801) Savary, Jacques des Bruslons (1657-1716) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.4 B.C.-c.65 A.D.) Terray, Joseph Marie (1715-1778) Tinghi, Philippe (fl.1570-1586) Tissot, Simon Auguste André David (1728-1797) Tournes, Jean de, I (fl.1542) Tournes, Jean de, II (fl.1564-1585) Treschel, Johannes (fl.1489-1493) d'Urfé, Honoré, Marquis de Valromey and Comte de Châteauneuf (1568-1625) Varennes, Olivier de (fl.1597-1646) Vascosan, Michel de (fl.1560-1576) Vence, Henri-François, l'Abbé de (c.1675-1749) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Persons referred to in commentary Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Places referred to Amsterdam Athens Avignon Besançon Bouillon (Belgium) Clermont Denmark Dole (Franche-Comté) England Europe France Gelderland Geneva Genoa Germany Great Britain Grenoble Hanau Hessen Holland Italy Jersey Lausanne Liège Lyon Marseille Nancy Netherlands Nîmes Orleans Paris Poland Pontarlier (Franche-Comté) Portugal Rome Rouen Russia Scotland Spain Switzerland Toulouse Turin Venice Versailles Vesoul (Franche-Comté) Yverdon (Switzerland) Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Edict of Moulins (1566), obliging royal privileges for all first editions Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1618 Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1620 Ruling of the Parlement of Paris (1657), forbidding new editions unless the work had been significantly enlarged Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686 French Royal Letters Patent (1701), on the book trade Decree of the King's Council (1704), reducing the number of printing offices throughout France Code de la Librairie 1723 Decree of the King's Council (1725), regulating the Parisian book trade Decree of the King's Council (1739), reducing the number of printing offices in some French towns Decree of the King's Council (1744), applying the Code de la Librairie (1726) to all of France Comédie-Française regulations (1757) Dutch book trade regulations in various provinces Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to Josse v. Malassis (1665) Leonard v. Martin (1670-1673) Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Académie française Academy of Sciences (Paris) Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris) Chancery of France ('Grande Chancellerie') Comédie-Française French Ministry of Finance French Ministry of Justice Keeper of the Seals ('Garde des Sceaux') King's Council of State (France) Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers Parlement of Paris Provostship of Paris Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words author/publisher relations authors' remuneration authorship, theory of barter trade book trade classics, Greek and Latin common law copyright customs duration, prolongation of privileges Enlightenment, the foreign reprints guilds imitation, learning by importation interest groups inventions inventors labour theory learning, the advancement of lobbying monopoly natural rights penalties, paid to fiscal authorities printing, history of privileges, French property analogies property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public good public domain privileges reprints scholarly writing scribal publication transferability utility Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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