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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: f_1826 Full title Literary Property Commission - Collection des Procès-Verbaux Full title original language N/A Abstract Given the revolutionary atmosphere of the time, the law of 19-24 July 1793 and its seven articles understandably awakened but few debates on the nature of literary property, the duration of the right of exploitation, the reasons for its having to be limited, and, most importantly, on its object - that is, the definition of what constituted a literary or artistic work. It was under the Bourbon Restoration that a commission, set up in the final months of 1825 under the presidency of the Viscount Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld and made up of several eminent jurists and statesmen, would be assigned the task of preparing the draft for a law "in the interest of literature and the arts". As the country's judges had been somewhat uncertain in applying the 1793 Act, the proceedings of the Commission (which met until May 1826) were a welcome opportunity, soon followed by many others, to review in detail the basic principles of literary and artistic property. In practice - and the various reflections on "the nature of literary property" illustrate this well - the report and draft law ensuing from these investigations were once again dominated by the question of the duration of the copyright term. A p.m.a. term of 50 years was in fact proposed, to the detriment of such equally important questions as defining the object of the right enshrined by the 1793 Act. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher Pillet Location Paris Year 1826 Language French Source not available Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Andrieux, François Guillaume Jean Stanislaw (1759-1833) Auger, Louis-Simon (1772-1829) Champein, Stanislas (1753-1830) Charles X (1757-1836) Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de (1674-1762) Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, baron (1769-1832) Dacier, Bon-Joseph (1742-1833) Desprez (c.1800) Duval, Alexandre-Vincent Pineux (1767-1842) Étienne, Charles-Guillaume (1777-1845) Francis I (1494-1547) La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) La Harpe, Jean François de (1739-1803) Lainé, Joseph Henri Joachim (1768-1835) Lakanal, Joseph (1762-1845) Lally-Tollendal, Gérard de (1751-1830) La Rochefoucauld, Sosthène de (1785-1864) Lemercier, Népomucène (1771-1840) Louis XIII (1601-1643) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Louis XV (1710-1774) Louis XVIII (1755-1824) Mareschal, Jules (b.1793) Michaud, Joseph François (1767-1839) Molière (1622-1673) Pardessus, Jean-Marie (1772-1853) Picard, Louis-Benoît (1769-1828) Raynouard, François Juste Marie (1761-1836) Séguier, Antoine-Louis (1726-1792) Taylor, Isidore Justin Séverin, baron (1789-1879) Vatimesnil, Antoine-François-Henri Lefebvre de (1789-1860) Villemain, Abel-François (1790-1870) Persons referred to in commentary La Rochefoucauld, Sosthène de (1785-1864) Places referred to Paris Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Royal Letters Patent of 1488 Edict of Moulins (1566), obliging royal privileges for all first editions Royal Letters Patent of 1586 Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1618 Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686 Code de la Librairie 1723 Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777) French Copyright Act 1793 French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810 Legislation referred to in commentary French Copyright Act 1793 Cases referred to Crébillon's case (1749) Affaire des Demoiselles de La Fontaine (1761) Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Académie française Academy of Sciences (Paris) Chamber of Deputies, Paris Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris) Comédie-Française French Chamber of Peers National Assembly (1789-1791) Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers Parlement of Paris Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (Paris) Royal Academy of Music (Paris) Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Paris) Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words authors' remuneration author/publisher relations authorship, romantic theory of books, protected subject matter censorship contract contracts, regulation of counterfeit divine law duration duration, post mortem term dramatic works, protected subject matter editions, new engravings, protected subject matter French Revolution idea/expression imitation incentives industrial revolution inheritability interest groups manuscript monopoly music, protected subject matter Napoleonic Wars natural rights paintings, protected subject matter patronage perpetual protection personality theory price regulation printing, history of privileges property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public domain public performance registration reputation royalty/royalties scribal publication transferability utility Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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