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Literary and artistic property act, Paris (1866)

Source:
Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Bulletin des Lois de l'Empire français, XIe série, tome XXVIII, n° 1405

Citation:
Literary and artistic property act (1867), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
f_1866a

Full title
Act on the Rights of heirs and of lawful representatives of Authors

Full title original language
Loi sur les Droits des héritiers et des ayants cause des Auteurs

Abstract
Following the failure of the very ambitious copyright bills of the 1840s, the 1866 Act finally succeeded in extending - as had been demanded in many of the debates initiated by the Commission of 1825-26 - the duration of the exploitation right to 50 years. The formulation of the 1866 Act, as Riché, the 'rapporteur' of its draft, put it, was meant to once again "wisely reconcile private interests and the public interest with regard to the special rights granted to authors and their families". This extension of the copyright term, which Renouard had already opposed back in 1841, was again imposed to the detriment of resolving other questions concerning the object of literary property and the conditions for protecting a literary or artistic work. In these respects the 1793 Act would still continue to be applied in the case law of the time.

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Publisher
Bulletin des lois

Location
Paris

Year
1867

Language
French

Source
Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Bulletin des Lois de l'Empire français, XIe série, tome XXVIII, n° 1405

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Persons referred to
Abbatucci, Paul-Séverin (1821-1888)
Barrot, Ferdinand Victorin (1806-1883)
Boulay de la Meurthe, François Joseph, Comte (1799-1880)
Charon, Viala, Baron de (1794-1880)
Darimon, Alfred (1819-1902)
Napoleon III (1808-1873)
Troplong, Raymond-Théodore (1795-1869)
Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Count (1810-1868)
Welles de la Valette, Samuel, Comte (1834-1894)

Persons referred to in commentary
Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878)
Riché, M. (fl.1866)

Places referred to
Paris

Places referred to in commentary
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Legislation referred to
Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804
French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866

Legislation referred to in commentary
French Copyright Act 1793
French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866

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Institutions referred to
Corps législatif (1852-1870)
Senate of France

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Key words
books, protected subject matter
duration, post mortem term
inheritability
music, protected subject matter
paintings, protected subject matter
transferability

Responsible editor
Frédéric Rideau




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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK