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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:  | | An Enquiry into Literary Property, London (1762) Source: Cambridge University Library: 7000 c.6 Citation: An Enquiry into Literary Property (1762), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1762a Full title Anon., An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property Full title original language N/A Abstract One of a number of published commentaries contributing to the mid-eighteenth century debate concerning the nature of literary property. The author of An Enquiry sought to repudiate the concept of a natural authorial property right existing at common law. In so doing, he specifically engaged with various aspects of William Warburton's earlier commentary (uk_1747), as well as presenting arguments that drew upon the nature of property in general, the differences between the right claimed by proponents of the common law right and other acknowledged incorporeal properties, the similarities between patents and copyright, the history of literary property, the experience of other jurisdictions (drawing upon Venice in particular), and the consequences that would follow from conceding the existence of a perpetual right both for authors in particular and society in general. This commentary, in turn, drew its own response in the guise of A Vindication of the Exclusive Rights of Authors, to their own work (1762). Bibliography Deazley, R., On the Origin of the Right to Copy: Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain, 1695-1775 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004) Rose, M., Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (London: Harvard University Press, 1993) Sherman, B., and Bently, L., The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law, The British Experience, 1760-1911 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher Flexney/Holburn Location London Year 1762 Language English Source Cambridge University Library: 7000 c.6 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Capra, Baldessar (1580-1626) Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de (1674-1762) Dryden, John (1631-1700) Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Herodotus (c.485 B.C.-425 B.C.) Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) Isocrates (436 B.C.-338 B.C.) Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) Lucretius (c.99 B.C.-55 B.C.) Lysias (c.458 B.C.-c.380 B.C.) Marius, Simon (1570-1624) Menander (c.343 B.C.-291 B.C.) Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Otway, Thomas (1652-1685) Pindar (c.522 B.C.-c.440 B.C.) Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (1632-94) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Thucydides (c.460 B.C.-c.400 B.C.) Warburton, William (1698-1779) Persons referred to in commentary Enfield, William (1741-1797) Hargrave, Francis (1740/41-1821) Macaulay, Catherine (1731-1791) Warburton, William (1698-1779) Places referred to England Greece Padua Rome Venice Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Cases referred to Galileo v. Capra (1607) Crébillon's case (1749) Cases referred to in commentary Midwinter v. Hamilton (1743-1748) Millar v. Kincaid (1751) The Case of the Respondents, 11 February 1751, British Library, 18th century reel 4065/04 Tonson v. Walker (1752) NA, c.11 1106/18, 3 Swans 672 Tonson v. Collins (1762) 1 Black W 321, 1 Black W 329 Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Institutions referred to Parlement of Paris Institutions referred to in commentary House of Lords Key words authors' remuneration common law copyright copy inventions learning, the advancement of natural rights property theory public domain translations, protection of 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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