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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:  | | Pluquet's letters, Paris (1778) Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter Citation: Pluquet's letters (1778), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1778 Full title Letter to a friend on 30 August 1777 decrees concerning the Book Trade Second Letter to a friend on the current affairs of the Book Trade Third Letter to a friend concerning the Book Trade Full title original language Lettre à un ami sur les Arrêts du Conseil du 30 Août 1777 concernant la Librairie & l'Imprimerie Seconde Lettre à une ami sur les Affaires actuelles de la Librairie Troisième lettre à un ami concernant les Affaires de la Librairie Abstract The "Letters" of the Abbé Pluquet constitute one of the most important documents written in response to the solutions adopted by the king in 1777, in order to shatter the monopolies of the Parisian guild of booksellers. Defending, like the lawyer Linguet, the notion of a literary property, the exercise of which, by the act of publication, had to be guaranteed in an absolute manner by the law, Pluquet focussed in particular on outlining, as precisely as possible, the specific nature of the object of this property. In this sense, the Abbé - without, though, being a jurist by training - showed himself to be especially rigorous, thereby coming very close to the precision attained by several English memorials of the same period, which marked out the 'battle' between the booksellers of London and those of Edinburgh. In Pluquet's demonstration, apart from a general critique of the decree of 30 August 1777 on the duration of privileges, the question he raises as to the specific exercise of literary property by means of publication allows for certain conclusions on the incorporeal nature of its object. The comparison made by Pluquet between a work and an invention was equally decisive for the way in which the idea/form distinction came to be perceived in French copyright discourse. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author l'Abbé François-André-Adrien Pluquet (1716-1790) Publisher N/A Location Paris Year 1778 Language French Source Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Abelard, Peter (1079-1142) Aguesseau, Henri-François d' (1668-1751) Ambrogini, Angelo (1454-1494) Anisson-Duperron, Etienne (1748-1794) Argenson, René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' (1694-1757) Bignon, Jérôme (1589-1656) Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne (1627-1704) Carrières, Louis de (1662-1717) Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Curtius Rufus, Quintus (fl.41-54) Desaint, Jean (d.1776) Didot, François (b.1699) Didot, François-Ambroise (1730-1801) Didot, Pierre-François (1732-1795) Duplain, Pierre (fl.1766) Elzevir (fl.1592-1681) Erasmus (1466/69-1536) Estienne, Charles (1504-1564) Estienne, Henri I (c.1460-1520) Estienne, Henri II (1528-1598) Estienne, Robert (1503-1559) Froben, Johann (c.1460-1527) Henri IV (1553-1610) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) Jousse, Daniel (1704-1781) Kerver, Jacques (1535-1583) Ladvocat, Jean-Baptiste (1709-1765) Le Bret, Cardin (1558-1665) Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît (fl.1775-1800) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Louis XVI (1754-1793) Maboul, Jean-François (d.1757) Marmontel, Jean François (1723-1799) Miromesnil, Armand Thomas Hue de (1723-1796) Molière (1622-1673) Morel, Fédéric (1523-1583) Moulins, Guyart des (b.c.1251) Pluquet, François-André-Adrien (1716-1790) Pralard, André (1635-c.1721) Quesnel, Pasquier (1634-1719) Sallust (86 B.C.-34 B.C.) St Bruno (925-965) St Francis of Sales (1567-1622) St Gregory of Nazianzus (c.330-c.389) St Paul the Apostle (c.5-67) Seignette, Pierre (1660-1719) Tacitus, Publius (c.55-120) Terence (c.190 B.C.-159 B.C.) Terray, Joseph Marie (1715-1778) Trattner, Johann Thomas von (1717-1798) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) William of Champeaux (1070-1122) Persons referred to in commentary Aston, Richard (1717-1778) Cochu, Joseph-Félicité (fl.1760-1771) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Goezmann, Louis Valentin de (1730-1794) Harrison, John (1693-1776) Henri IV (1553-1610) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît (fl.1775-1800) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Pluquet, François-André-Adrien (1716-1790) Seignette, Pierre (1660-1719) Suard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine (1733-1817) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Yates, Joseph (1722-1770) Places referred to Avignon Bordeaux England Germany Holland Ireland Italy Lyon Orléans Paris Rouen Scotland Toulouse Versailles Vienna Places referred to in commentary Edinburgh England London Paris Scotland Legislation referred to Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1618 Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686 French Royal Letters Patent (1701), on the book trade Code de la Librairie 1723 Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (1762) Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) Cases referred to Desaint's widow v. Duplain (1778) Martin v. Léonard (1670-1673) Cases referred to in commentary Tonson v. Collins (1762) 1 Black W 321, 1 Black W 329 Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Institutions referred to Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris) Cour de Commerce (Paris) King's Council of State (France) Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers Parlement of Paris Institutions referred to in commentary Collège de France House of Lords Key words almanacs author/publisher relations authors, self-publishing authors' remuneration authorship, theory of Bible, the book market book trade classics, Greek and Latin common law copyright contract counterfeit distributive justice divisibility duration duration, prolongation of privileges editions, new Enlightenment, the foreign reprints free trade idea/expression immoral works importation incentives inheritability interest groups labour theory manuscript medical tracts monopoly natural rights newspapers patents, for invention patronage penalties, paid to fiscal authorities penalties, paid to publisher(s) perpetual protection personality theory piracy plagiarism price regulation printing, history of privileges privileges, French privileges, German Imperial privileges, printing privileges, Spanish property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public domain public good Reformation, the religious works remedies renewal reprints royalty/royalties scholarly writing scribal publication taxation transferability universities unpublished works Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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