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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:  | | Statute of Monopolies, Westminster (1624) Source: scanned from the parchment copy in the UK Parliamentary Archives Citation: Statute of Monopolies (1624), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1624 Full title An Act concerning Monopolies and Dispensations with Penal Laws and the forfeitures thereof, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation restricting the monarch's ability to make monopoly grants in accordance with the royal prerogative, and providing a statutory basis for the patent system. The legislation established the basis upon which patents for 'new manufacture[s]' might be granted to 'the true and first inventor' of the same in furthering the interests of industry, the economy, and the state. At the same time, privileges concerning printing were left unaffected by the legislation, as were those for the manufacture of saltpetre or gunpowder and for the casting and making of ordnance (canons). In limiting the term of protection for future patents to 14 years while confining existing patents for the same to a period of 21 years, the legislation influenced the choice of the two copyright terms in the Statute of Anne 1710 (see: uk_1710). Bibliography Clegg, C.S., Press Censorship in Jacobean England, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Fox, H.G., A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1947) Frank, J., The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620-1660 (Cambridge, Mass., 1961) Raymond, J., The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) 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.p. Location Westminster Year 1624 Language English Source scanned from the parchment copy in the UK Parliamentary Archives Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Baker, Abraham (fl.1619) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Howard, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham (1536-1624) Humble, George (fl.1610) James I (1566-1625) Junius, Franciscus (1591-1677) Lilye, William (c.1468-1522) Mansel, Sir Robert (1573-1656) Maxwell, James (fl.1616) Richard II (1367-1400) Speed, John (1551/52-1629) Sutton, Edward, 5th Baron Dudley (1567-1643) Tremellius, Immanuel (1510-1580) Persons referred to in commentary Abbot, George (1562-1633) Archer, Thomas (fl.1620) Bourne, Nicholas (d.1661) Butter, Nathaniel (c.1583-1664) Charles I (1600-1649) Cottington, Francis (c.1579-1652) Darcy, Edward (fl.1603) Edward III (1312-1377) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Ferdinand II (1578-1637) Frederick V (1596-1632) Henry VIII (1491-1547) James I (1566-1625) Keere, Pieter van der (1571-1646) Kempe, John (fl.1331) Matthew, Tobias (1546-1628) Richard III (1452-1485) Places referred to Wales England London Newcastle Nottingham Places referred to in commentary Bohemia Delft England Flanders London Netherlands Scotland Legislation referred to Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3 Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Magna Carta, 1297, 25 Edw.I, c.9 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Darcy v. Allen (1603) 11 Co. Rep. 84b Cloth Workers of Ipswich (1614) Godb. R. 252 Institutions referred to Parliament Institutions referred to in commentary Parliament Key words Bible, the censorship, pre-publication defamation duration editions, new guild regulation import inventors law books maps, protected subject matter monopoly newspapers patents, for invention patronage public good religious works 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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