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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:  | | 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 Record Images Commentary Record-ID: i_1474 Full title The First General Statute Regulating Industrial Brevets Full title original language N/A 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 Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A 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 Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A 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 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A 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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