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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 originality, Paris (1869) Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Dalloz, Jurisprudence générale. Recueil Périodique et critique de jurisprudence, de legislation et de doctrine, 1869.1.186 Citation: Court of Cassation on originality (1869), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: f_1869 Full title Prud'homme v. J Dubus's widow and Bellanger, Court of Cassation. 27 November 1869. Full title original language Prud'homme C. Veuve Dubus et Bellanger, Cour de Cassation. Du 27 nov. 1869. Abstract During the nineteenth-century the judicial system had to apply the very general (and short) revolutionary 1793 statute on literary and artistic property. Apart from the preamble, which implied that a remarkable new type of property was now being secured by the law, the seven articles of this act said nothing specific about the object of this property, except to confirm that writings of any kind, as well as productions of the mind and of genius, would be protected. In deciding whether a work qualified for protection against counterfeiting, in view of the difficulties involved in its definition, numerous criteria were employed by the judges. Originality was only rarely used as a criterion, and in any case not really before the 1860s. On the whole, this rather elusive term tended to be discussed in philosophical and literary contexts, especially in certain debates on aesthetics from the 1740s onwards. The case discussed here represents probably one of the first applications of this criterion by jurists of the Court of Cassation (the French supreme court): as in 1814 (f_1814a), the work in question was again a compilation. Along with the emergence of moral rights, originality would be applied increasingly from 1890 onwards, apparently suggesting a "subjective" shift in French jurisprudence as far as the definition of literary and artistic works was concerned. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher Dalloz Location Paris Year 1869 Language French Source Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Dalloz, Jurisprudence générale. Recueil Périodique et critique de jurisprudence, de legislation et de doctrine, 1869.1.186 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bédarrides, Gustave-Emmanuel (1817-1899) Dubus, J. (fl.1860) Guyho, Corentin (fl.1862-1869) Legagneur, Hubert Michel Fortuné (1797-1876) Prudhomme (fl.1860-1869) Persons referred to in commentary Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (1821-1867) Chateaubriand, François René, Vicomte de (1768-1848) Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) Couhin, Claude Raoul (b.1850) Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Dubus, J. (fl.1860) Gaultier de Biauzat, Jean-François (1739-1815) Guiffrey, Georges (1827-1887) Héricourt, Louis d' (1687-1752) Homer (fl.700 B.C.-?) Laboulaye, Édouard René de (1811-1883) Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de (1790-1869) Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît (fl.1775-1800) Leclerc, Charles-Guillaume (fl.1778) Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-1794) Merlin, Philippe-Antoine (1778-1854) Pluquet, François-André-Adrien (1716-1790) Portalis, Joseph Marie Portalis, 1st Count (1778-1858) Pouillet, Eugène (1835-1905) Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-1865) Prudhomme (fl.1860-1869) Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Young, Edward (1683-1765) Places referred to Paris Saint-Brieuc (Brittany) Places referred to in commentary Bordeaux England Paris Legislation referred to French Copyright Act 1793 Legislation referred to in commentary Calico Printers' Act, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38 U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789 French Copyright Act 1793 Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Fontana case (1857) Institutions referred to Court of Cassation (Paris) Institutions referred to in commentary Court of Appeal (Paris) Court of Cassation (Paris) Imperial Court of Paris Lyon Correctional Tribunal National Assembly (1789-1791) Key words almanacs arrangement authorship, legal concept of authorship, romantic concept of authorship, theory of compilation idea/expression inventors monopoly moral rights, theory novelty originality patents, for invention personality theory photography, protected subject matter privileges privileges, printing property theory property theory, authors' property 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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