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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 Decree on Press Affairs, Venice (1517) Source: Scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, Senato, Terra, reg. 20, fol. 58v-59r. Citation: Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (1517), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: i_1517 Full title The First Legislation on Press Affairs by the Venetian Senate Full title original language N/A Abstract The Decree of 1517 was the first act of public legislation regulating the printing trade in Venice. It revoked all existing monopolies and ruled that future privileges were to be granted only for "new books and works." This was the first in a series of remedial decrees which sought to introduce stricter rules for the granting of new privileges, in order to prevent the formation of legal monopolies and abuses of the privilege system. The commentary argues that in the process of defining new criteria for awarding privileges, the Venetian legal regime expanded the boundary of protection beyond the sphere of verbatim reproduction and introduced the notion of novelty and originality into the realm of the book market. Bibliography Castellani, Carlo, "La stampa in Venezia dalla sua origine alla morte di Aldo Manuzio Seniore, con appendice di documenti in parte inediti" (Trieste: Edizioni LINT, 1973) Fulin, Rinaldo, "Documenti per servire alla storia della tipografia veneziana", Archivio Veneto 23 (1882): 84-212 Pozza, Neri, "L'editoria Veneziana da Giovanni da Spira ad Aldo Manuzio", in "La stampa degli incunaboli nel Veneto, Saggi e note" (Verona: tipografia Editoriale Aldo Manuzio", 1983) Richardson, Brian, "Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: the editor and the vernacular text, 1470-1600" (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1994) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Venice Year 1517 Language Latin Source Scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, Senato, Terra, reg. 20, fol. 58v-59r. 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 Capello, Paolo (fl.1500-1517) Foscari, Francesco (fl.1512-1517) Foscari, Marco (1477-1551) Gritti, Andrea (1455-1538) Trevisano, Andrea (fl.1497-1517) Persons referred to in commentary Accursio, Marcangelo (fl.1524) Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-390) Antoninus Florentinus, St (1389-1459) Aquinas, St Thomas (1225-1274) Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533) Augustine, St (354-430) Barbaro, Daniele (fl.1493) Barbaro, Ermolao (1454-1493/95) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Corallus, Stephanus (fl.1477) Duns Scotus, John (c.1265-1308) Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480) Johannes of Speyer (d.1470) John of Cologne (fl.1471-1487) Lucan (39-65) Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515) Origen (c.185-c.254) Rasmo, Bernardo (fl.1496) Sallust (86 B.C.-34 B.C.) Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) Soardi, Lazaro de (fl.1490-1517) Sweynheym, Konrad (fl.1467) Torresani d'Asola, Andrea (1451-1529) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Places referred to Venice Places referred to in commentary Brescia Cologne Florence Lyon Mainz Paris Parma Rome Turin Venice Legislation referred to Venetian decree on privileges (1517) Legislation referred to in commentary Venetian printing privilege for Marco Antonio Sabellico (1486) Venetian decree on privileges (1517) Venetian decree on censorial revision of books by the Commissioners of the University of Padua (1545) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to St Mark's Basilica, Venice Venetian Senate Institutions referred to in commentary Venetian Collegio (cabinet of government), in the Doge's palace Venetian Council of Ten Venetian Senate Key words abridgements book market duration, prolongation of privileges editions, new novelty originality privileges, printing privileges, Venetian renewal reprints 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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