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Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets, Venice (1474)

Source:
Scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, Senato Terra, reg. 7, c. 32r.

Citation:
Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets (1474), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
i_1474

Full title
The First General Statute Regulating Industrial Brevets

Full title original language
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Abstract
The commentary discusses the importance of the Venetian corporate guild culture and patent-granting tradition for the emergence of proprietary attitudes towards technical knowledge, from which the concept of the intangible object of property would eventually evolve. It argues that in the realities of Renaissance Italy there was no strict separation between industrial brevets (protopatents) and book privileges and that there was much mutual influence between these two institutions. In general, the commentary explores the social and philosophical definition of property rights in intangible works that prefigured its legal definition and application.

Bibliography
Berveglieri, Roberto, "Inventori stranieri a Venezia, (1474-1788): Importazione di tecnologia e circolazione di tecnici artigiani inventori" (Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere e Arti, 1995)
Frumkin, Maximilian, "Early History of Patents for Invention", "Transactions of the Newcomen Society" 26 (1947-49): 47-56
Long, Pamela O., "Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001)
Mandich, Giulio, "Venetian patents (1450-1550)", "Journal of the Patent Office Society" 30 (1948): 166-224
Prager, Frank D., "Brunelleschi's Patent", "Journal of the Patent Office Society" 28 (1946): 109-35

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Location
Venice

Year
1474

Language
Italian

Source
Scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, Senato Terra, reg. 7, c. 32r.

Physical description
1 folio parchment; 38.5 x 28.5 cm; bound in a wooden board codex; handwritten

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Persons referred to
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Persons referred to in commentary
Aconcio, Jacopo (c.1492-c.1567)
Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472)
Ballarin, Giorgio (d.1512)
Barovier, Angelo (1405-1460)
Barovier, Marietta (fl.1460)
Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1466)
Burckhardt, Jacob Christopher (1818-1897)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Gabrielli, Maggino (b.1561)
Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455)
Giorgio Martini, Francesco di (1439-1502)
Hulme, Edward Wyndham (1859-1954)
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515)
Mutio, Theseo (fl.1551-1561)
Petrucci, Ottaviano (1466-1539)
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Comte (1463-1494)
Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878)
Smyth, Sir Thomas (1513-1577)
Taccola, Mariano (1382-c.1453)
Terracina, Democrito (fl.1498)
Varotta, Marcantonio (d.1568)
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574)
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (fl.27)

Places referred to
Venice

Places referred to in commentary
Ancona
Antwerp
Bologna
Capodistria (Koper, Slovenia)
Cracow (Krakow)
England
Ferrara
Florence
Geneva
Georgia
Germany
Lyon
Mantua
Moravia
Murano
Padua
Rome
Treviso
Vicenza
Venice

Legislation referred to
Venetian Statute on industrial brevets (1474)

Legislation referred to in commentary
Venetian Capitularies for the Guild of Glassmakers (1271, 1281, 1295)
Venetian Statute on industrial brevets (1474)
Venetian decree on privileges (1517)
Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3
Berne Convention 1886

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Cases referred to in commentary
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Institutions referred to
Venetian Senate

Institutions referred to in commentary
Florentine Council of Eight
University of Padua
Venetian Council of Ten
Venetian Grand Council (Maggiore Consiglio)
Venetian Guild of Glassmakers
Venetial Guild of Woodworkers and Stone-masons

Key words
authorship, joint or collaborative
authorship, theory of
creativity
guild regulation
guilds
imitation
ingenuity
inventions
inventors
ownership, corporate
patents, for invention
patents, printing
privileges, Venetian
public good
Renaissance, the
secrecy
technical manuals
utility

Responsible editor
Joanna Kostylo




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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