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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:  | | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company, London (1643) 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) 1: 584 Citation: The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (1643), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1643 Full title The Humble Remonstrance of the Company of Stationers to the High Court of Parliament Full title original language N/A Abstract A petition from the Stationers' Company to Parliament to introduce some form of legislative regulation of the press. The petition is significant in revealing the extent to which the Stationers depended upon the state to support the regulation of the book trade, as well as the nature of the various public and private interest arguments upon which they sought to base their claim. The benefits of the legal regulation they suggested concerned not only the censorship and suppression of seditious and heretical texts, but also facilitated the advancement of learning and knowledge and the flourishing of the printing industry itself. In addition, the petition presents the figure of the 'author' as reliant upon the benefit of his work, and that the 'production of the Brain' was to be regarded as equivalent to any other commodity or chattel. Bibliography Bracha, O., Owning Ideas: A History of Anglo-American Intellectual Property, http://www.obracha.net/oi/oi.htm Clyde, W.M., "Parliament and the Press, 1643-47", The Library, 13 (1932-33): 399-424 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 Henry Parker Publisher N/A Location London Year 1643 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) 1: 584 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Catlyn, Sir Robert (d.1574) Dyer (fl.1562) Edward VI (1537-1553) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Henry VIII (1491-1547) James I (1566-1625) Lucaris, Cyril (1572-1638) Preston, John (1587-1628) Richard III (1452-1485) Sibbes, Richard (1577-1635) Socinus, Faustus (1539-1604) Socinus, Laelius (1525-1562) Persons referred to in commentary Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Marshe, Thomas (fl.1554) Places referred to China Constantinople England Europe France Geneva Germany London Lyon Moscow Netherlands Paris Poland Turkey Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Star Chamber Decree 1566 Star Chamber Decree 1586 Legislation referred to in commentary Star Chamber Decree 1637 Act for the Regulating of the Privy Council, and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber, 1640, 16 Car.I, c.10 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to High Commission Parliament Star Chamber Stationers' Company University of Cambridge University of Oxford Institutions referred to in commentary High Commission House of Commons Privy Council Star Chamber Stationers' Company Key words authorship, legal concept of barter trade guild regulation learning, the advancement of lobbying printing, history of property theory, publishers' property reprints Stationers' Company utility 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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