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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:  | | Court of Cassation on photography, (1862) Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD): Dalloz, Jurisprudence générale. Recueil Périodique et critique de jurisprudence, de legislation et de doctrine, 1863.1.52 Citation: Court of Cassation on photography (1863), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: f_1862 Full title Betbéder and Schwalbé C. Mayer and Pierson, Court of Cassation. 21 November 1862. Full title original language Betbéder et Schwalbé C. Mayer et Pierson, Court de Cassation. Du 21 nov. 1861. Abstract The law of 1793 had, obviously, not foreseen the question of photographic productions. Nevertheless, even at a time when photography was beginning to truly assert itself as a lucrative means of reproduction, the revolutionary legislation's very broad provisions, which envisaged all kinds of works, could potentially serve to secure protection for photographs. As it turned out, the question as to whether the products of photography constituted artistic works in the sense of the 1793 act would be fiercely debated right up to the end of the nineteenth century. Giving rise to contradictory decisions before the lower courts from the early 1860s onwards, this question presented itself for the first time to the judges of the Court of Cassation in November 1862. The supreme judges had to give their opinion in this matter, and a priori they had two basic options to choose from: either to exclude photography insofar as it was a simple machine product, whose very form excluded any possibility of identifying an author; or to accept that photography should be protected, since in its form it testified to a personal contribution on the photographer's part and even to his personality. Faced with these two quite opposite standpoints, the judges ultimately opted for another system - one that was complicated, ambiguous, and, so to speak, intermediate between these two principles. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher Dalloz Location N/A Year 1863 Language French Source Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD): Dalloz, Jurisprudence générale. Recueil Périodique et critique de jurisprudence, de legislation et de doctrine, 1863.1.52 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Betbéder (fl.1862) Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie (1826-1900) Bisson, Louis-Auguste (1814-1876) Caussin de Perceval, E. (b.1802) Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di (1810-1861) Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (1789-1851) Flandrin, Jean Hippolyte (1809-1864) Guyho, Corentin (fl.1862-1869) Henriquel-Dupont, Louis-Pierre (1797-1892) Hérold, Ferdinand (1828-1882) Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Mayer, Léopold Ernst (fl.1862) Mayer, Louis Frédéric (fl.1862) Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865) Pierson, Pierre Louis (1822-1913) Rendu, Ambroise (1820-1864) Robert-Fleury, Joseph-Nicolas (1797-1890) Schwalbé (fl.1862) Thiébault, Eugène (b.1825) Vaisse, Marc-Antoine-Henri-Marius (1805-1874) Persons referred to in commentary Betbéder (fl.1862) Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di (1810-1861) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Couhin, Claude Raoul (b.1850) Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand (1806-1875) Hérold, Ferdinand (1828-1882) Leclerc, Charles-Guillaume (fl.1778) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Mayer, Léopold Ernst (fl.1862) Mayer, Louis Frédéric (fl.1862) Nadar (1820-1910) Pierson, Pierre Louis (1822-1913) Pouillet, Eugène (1835-1905) Rendu, Ambroise (1820-1864) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Schwalbé (fl.1862) Thiébault, Eugène (b.1825) Thomas, M. (fl.1862) Places referred to Aix Italy Paris Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to French Copyright Act 1793 Legislation referred to in commentary French Copyright Act 1793 Code Pénal 1810 Cases referred to Mayer et Pierson v. Betbéder and Schwalbé (1862) Cases referred to in commentary Mayer et Pierson v. Betbéder and Schwalbé (1862) Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., 188 U.S. 239 (1903) Institutions referred to Court of Cassation (Paris) Imperial Court of Paris Institut de France Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine Institutions referred to in commentary Court of Cassation (Paris) Imperial Court of Paris Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine Key words adaptation art market authorship, theory of commissions creativity industrial revolution originality patents, for invention personality theory photography, protected subject matter portrait public domain Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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