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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:  | | Star Chamber Decree, Westminster (1586) Source: Durham University Library: Arber, E., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1875-94) 2: 807 Citation: Star Chamber Decree (1586), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1586 Full title The newe Decrees of the Starre Chamber for Orders in Printinge Full title original language N/A Abstract A decree prohibiting the publication of any book contrary to statute, injunction, ordinance and letters patents, as well as any ordinance set down by the Company of Stationers. The formal protection of the Star Chamber was extended not only to books protected under royal printing privileges (see: uk_1566) but to books printed in contravention of the internal regulations of the Stationers' Company itself, further enhancing the significance of 'stationers' copyright'. The commentary describes the background to the decree, in particular the religious controversies of the 1570s and 1580s, as well as the dissatisfaction within the general printing trade during this period at the manner in which a number of the printing privileges granted by Elizabeth resulted in the monopolistic control of commercially lucrative works within the hands of a few stationers only. The commentary also details the efforts of the dominant members of the Stationers' Company to influence the substance of the decree and further augment their control over the internal operation of the book trade. Bibliography Clegg, C.S., Press Censorship in Jacobean England, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Judge, C.B., Elizabethan Book Pirates (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934) Loewenstein, J., The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002) Patterson, L.R., Copyright in Historical Perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1968) Siebert, F.S., Freedom of the Press in England, 1476-1776 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Westminster Year 1586 Language English Source Durham University Library: Arber, E., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1875-94) 2: 807 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Aylmer, John (1521-1594) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Whitgift, John (c.1530-1604) Persons referred to in commentary Barker, Christopher (1528/29-1599) Bourne, Robert (fl.1586) Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) Campion, Edmund (1540-1581) Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598) Charlewood, John (d.1593) Day, John (1521/22-1584) Dunn, Thomas (fl.1586) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Flower, Francis (fl.1573) Holmes, William (fl.1586) Jugge, John (d.1588) Lambard, William (1536-1601) Marshe, Thomas (fl.1554) Roberts, James (fl.1586) Robinson, Robert (fl.1586) Seres, William, 'the younger' (fl.1586) Tottell, Richard (d.1594) Vautrollier, Thomas (c.1540-1587) Ward, Roger (fl.1586) Watkins, Richard (fl.1586) Whitgift, John (c.1530-1604) Wolfe, John (d.1601) Places referred to Cambridge London Oxford Places referred to in commentary Cambridge Canterbury London Oxford Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Flower and Assigns v. Dunn and Robinson (1585) Arber, II, 794 Flower and Assigns v. Bourne and Others (1586) Arber, II, 800 Institutions referred to High Commission Privy Council Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall University of Cambridge University of Oxford Institutions referred to in commentary High Commission Privy Council Star Chamber Stationers' Company Key words book trade censorship, pre-publication guild regulation interest groups law books licensing lobbying monopoly penalties printing, history of public good Stationers' Company Responsible editor Ronan Deazley 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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