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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:  | | Fragments on the Freedom of the Press, Paris (1776) Source: Cambridge University Library : Condorcet, "Fragments sur la liberté de la presse" (1776), in Oeuvres (Firmin Didot 1847) tome II, p. 253 Citation: Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (1847), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1776a Full title Fragments on the Freedom of the Press Full title original language Fragments sur la liberté de la presse Abstract Although Diderot and Condorcet probably held much the same views on the need for, and desirability of, the Enlightenment message being accessible to the whole French nation, the Marquis's proposed means for achieving this goal entailed a rather different concept of authorship. For Condorcet, the notion of an "absolute author", whose work was the source of a natural property right, was theoretically and politically unacceptable. Consequently - as far as the provincial booksellers, in particular, were concerned - to avoid any harmful monopolies which could undermine the encouragement of learning, book trade privileges had to be invested with an ordinary definition: namely, that of favours formally granted by the king, in order to guarantee the reward that society owed to the authors of useful writings (see Gaultier's memorandum, f_1776). But Condorcet went even further still, since he did not consider the unjust principle of an exclusive right, even if it was a limited one, to be the most efficient way of helping authors to make a living from their writings. Although the editorial history of Condorcet's "Fragments" still remains a complicated question, the radical and liberal views expressed in this document have been recognized as having a very strong influence on the revolutionary debates on intellectual property. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) Publisher Ambroise-Firmin Didot (1790-1876) Location Paris Year 1847 Language French Source Cambridge University Library : Condorcet, "Fragments sur la liberté de la presse" (1776), in Oeuvres (Firmin Didot 1847) tome II, p. 253 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Alembert, Jean le Rond D' (1717-1783) Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706) Bergman,Torbern Olof (1735-1784) Christina (1626-1689) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Descartes, René (1596-1650) Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757) Francis I (1494-1547) Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Gianone, Pietro (1676-1748) Huyghens, Christiaan (1629-1695) Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) Mirabeau, Victor Riqueti, Marquis de (1715-1789) Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de (1689-1755) Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778) Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786) Stahl, Georg (1660-1734) Tiberius (42 B.C.-37 A.D.) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Persons referred to in commentary Barre, Jean-François de la (1745-1766) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) d'Etalonde, Gaillard (fl.1765) Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) La Chalotais, Louis-René de Caradeuc de (1701-1785) Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de (1721-1794) Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph Comte (1748-1836) Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques (1727-1781) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Yates, Joseph (1722-1770) Places referred to Europe Florence France Geneva Holland Italy Milan Paris Venice Places referred to in commentary Lyon Rouen Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) French Copyright Act 1793 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Case of the chevalier de la Barre (1766) Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Institutions referred to University of Paris (Sorbonne) Institutions referred to in commentary National Assembly (1789-1791) Key words book trade censorship, pre-publicatinon copy counterfeit Enlightenment, the French Revolution idea/expression price regulation privileges, French property theory, authors' property public utility subscription 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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