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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 Author-Printer Relations, Venice (1545) Source: scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, CX, Comuni, b. 36, fol. 297r Citation: Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (1545), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: i_1545 Full title Press Reform Regulating Author-Printer Relations and Censorial Revision of Books by the Reformatori dello Studio di Padova Full title original language N/A Abstract This Decree is the first statutory measure in Venice dealing with authorship and it is often celebrated as the first European legislative act to recognise the author's 'copyright'. In reality, however, it was one of a series of remedial decrees designed to regulate the printing trade and, rather than constituting an assertion of author's rights as such, it illustrates the abuses of the book trade. While setting out censorship rules it does, though, incidentally give more recognition to the author's personality. The notion of the author as an artistic personality is for the first time legally defined and offset against the financial interests of the printers. The commentary discusses the contemporary status of the author vis-à-vis printers and publishers in the context of the emerging censorship regime. Bibliography Brown, Horatio Fortini, "The Venetian Printing Press 1469-1800: An Historical Study Based upon Documents for the Most Part Hitherto Unpublished" (London: John C. Nimmo, 1891) May, Christopher, "The Venetian Moment: New Technologies, Legal Innovation and the Institutional Origins of Intellectual Property", "Prometheus" 20, nr 2 (2002), 159-179 Richardson, Brian, "From scribal publication to print publication: Pietro Bembo's 'Rime', 1529-1535", "Modern Language Review" 95 (2000), 684-95 Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Venice Year 1545 Language Italian Source scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, CX, Comuni, b. 36, fol. 297r Physical description 1 folio parchment; approximately 78 x 42,5cm; bound in a wooden board codex; handwritten Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Lando, Pietro (1462-1545) Persons referred to in commentary Alciato, Andrea (1492-1550) Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533) Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) Augurello, Giovanni Aurelio (1441-1524) Bembo, Carlo (b.c.1500) Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547) Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) Brucioli, Antonio (d.1566) Bussi, Giovanne Andrea (1417-1475) Dotto, Girolamo (fl.1575) Erasmus (1466/69-1536) Fabrizi, Alvise Cinzio dei (1450-c.1528) Farinacci, Prospero (1554-1618) Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499) Francioso, Pietro (fl.1492) Fratta, Giovanni (fl.1575-1611) Giunti, Filippo (c.1456-1517) Giunti, Jacques (fl.1560-1580) Giunti, Lucantonio, II (fl.1555-1597) Lichtenberg, Johannes von (d.1503) Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515) Michelangelo (1475-1564) Misinta, Bernardino (fl.1495-1505) Navagero, Andrea (1483-1529) Negri da Bassano, Francesco (1500-1563) Negro, Giovanni Domenico (fl.1492) Nicolini da Sabbio, Giovanni Antonio (fl.1530-1545) Passero, Marcantonio (1491-1563) Percaccino, Grazioso (fl.1555-1575) Petrarch (1304-1374) Peutinger, Konrad (1465-1547) Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Comte (1463-1494) Ramusio, Giambattista (1485-1557) Raphael (1483-1529) Salvati, Lionardo (1539-1589) Sassi, Panfilo (b.c.1455-1527) Soardi, Lazaro de (fl.1490-1517) Steiner, Heinrich (fl.1510-1540) Titian (c.1488-1576) Valdés, Juan de (1500-1541) Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Vespucci, Agostino (fl.1477-1506) Wechel, Christian (d.c.1554) Places referred to Venice Places referred to in commentary Augsburg Brescia England Florence Lyon Modena Naples Padua Rome Venice Legislation referred to Venetian decree on censorial revision of books by the Commissioners of the University of Padua (1545) Legislation referred to in commentary Venetian printing privilege for Ariosto (1515) Venetian decree on privileges (1517) Venetian decree on censorial revision of books by the Commissioners of the University of Padua (1545) French royal edict on censorship 1547 Venetian decree establishing the "Università di Stampatori e Librai" (1549) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Riformatori dello Studio di Padova (Venetian Board of Governors for the University of Padua) University of Padua Venetian Council of Ten Institutions referred to in commentary Florentine Council of Eight Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) Riformatori dello Studio di Padova (Venetian Board of Governors for the University of Padua) Venetian Council of Ten Venetian Senate Key words author/publisher relations authors, self-publishing authorship, legal concept of authorship, theory of censorship guild regulation licensing, Approbation moral rights, integrity penalties, paid to author(s) penalties, paid to fiscal authorities personality theory Renaissance, the reputation scribal publication Responsible editor Joanna Kostylo Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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