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Full title original language Cinquin C. Lecocq, Cour de Cassation. Du 25 juin 1902. Abstract The Lecocq case of 1902, that is just a few years after divorce was legalized again in France (in 1884), raised the question as to whether copyright formed part of the joint estate that might have to be divided between the husband and wife on their separation. Did literary property entail no more than the right to exploit a work commercially? Should this exclusive property right be included in the total estate to be divided where a regime of community of acquests had been agreed on in the contract of marriage? This question would, in accordance with earlier judicial decisions, be answered affirmatively by the Court of Cassation: thus, it seemed that the object of literary property was comparable to all other goods and assets. But on the other hand, the supreme judges asserted that the inclusion of the author's right of exploitation in the joint estate to be divided, and in a wider sense any transfer of the right of literary property at all, must not, though, lead to the author losing the right - a right which was "inherent in his very personality" - to control the integrity of his work. The Court of Cassation had therefore confirmed the author's moral right to his work, in a context where the definition of this right as such in terms of property was being called into question. Interpreted by some authors as the result of the jurisprudential vacillations of the time, and even as typical of a 'patchwork' of judicial decisions which emanated from fashionable contemporary doctrines about authorial subjectivity, the Court of Cassation's ruling in the Lecocq case nevertheless heralded the emergence of moral rights and of the 'dualist' conception of the author's right. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher Dalloz Location Paris Year 1902 Language French Source Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Dalloz, Jurisprudence générale. Recueil Périodique et critique de jurisprudence, de legislation et de doctrine, 1903.1.5 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Aubry, Charles (1803-1883) Ballot-Beaupré, Marie Clément Jules Alexis (1839-1917) Baudouin, Manuel Achille (1846-1917) Baudry-Lacantiniere, Gabriel (1837-1913) Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) Blanc, Etienne (1805-1874) Boivin-Champeaux, Paul (b.1854) Bozérian, Jules-François Jeannotte (fl.1875-1890) Chamfort, Nicolas Sébastien Roch (1741-1794) Cinquin, Mlle (fl.1876-1902) Couhin, Claude Raoul (b.1850) Dalloz, Désiré (1795-1869) Delisle, G. (fl.1852) Demolombe, Jean Charles Florent (1804-1887) Ducis, Jean François (1733-1816) Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques (1783-1865) Dutruc, Gustave (fl.1855) Forichon, Emile (1848-1915) Gastambide, Adrien-Joseph (fl.1837-1860) Guillouard, Louis Vincent (1845-1925) La Harpe, Jean François de (1739-1803) Lakanal, Joseph (1762-1845) Laurent, François (1810-1887) Lecocq, Alexandre Charles (1832-1918) Lemierre, Antoine-Marin (1733-1793) Locré, Jean-Guillaume, Baron de (1758-1840) Mailher de Chassat, Antoine (1781-1864) Marcadé, Victor-Napoléon (1810-1854) Merlin, Philippe-Antoine (1778-1854) Mollot, M. (fl.1858) Morillot, André (1849-1922) Napoleon I (1769-1821) Olin, Xavier Victor (1836-1899) Parant, Narcisse (1794-1842) Pataille, Jules-Henri-Paul (b.1847) Picard, Edmond (1836-1924) Planiol, Marcel Ferdinand (1853-1931) Pont, Paul (1808-1888) Portalis, Joseph Marie Portalis, 1st Count (1778-1858) Pouillet, Eugène (1835-1905) Rau, Charles-Frédéric (1803-1877) Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, Count Michel-Louis-Etienne (1761-1819) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Rodière, Aimé-Bernard-Yves-Honoré (1810-1874) Ruben de Couder, Joseph (b.1843) Saleilles, Raymond (1855-1912) Taulier, Frédéric Marc Joseph (1806-1861) Troplong, Raymond-Théodore (1795-1869) Persons referred to in commentary N/A Places referred to Agen (Aquitaine) Dijon France Lyon Metz Nancy Paris Rouen Places referred to in commentary France Legislation referred to French law of 13 January 1791, concerning the works of living playwrights French law of 19 January 1791, declaring the liberty of the theatres French Copyright Act 1793 Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804 French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810 Code Pénal 1810 French Constitution of 1852 French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1854 Franco-Bavarian Copyright Treaty 1865 French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866 French Copyright Act 1895 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to Cinquin v. Lecocq (Ct of Cass., 1902) Cases referred to in commentary Cinquin v. Lecocq (Ct of Cass., 1902) Institutions referred to Chamber of Deputies, Paris Corps législatif (1852-1870) Council of State (France) Court of Appeal (Paris) Court of Cassation (Paris) National Assembly (1789-1791) Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine Institutions referred to in commentary Court of Cassation (Paris) Key words authorship, romantic concept of divisibility duration formalities moral rights, integrity moral rights, theory music, protected subject matter personality theory property theory property theory, authors' property public performance inheritability transferability 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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