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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:  | | Hinton v. Donaldson, Edinburgh (1773) Source: British Library: 1570/2401 Citation: Hinton v. Donaldson (1773), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1773 Full title Hinton v. Donaldson (1773) Full title original language N/A Abstract The Scottish Court of Session, drawing upon principles of the civil law tradition, as well as arguments concerning broader national, social and cultural interests, reject the concept of copyright at common law - a decision that is in direct conflict with that of Millar v. Taylor (1769). Lord Monboddo provides the dissenting opinion, drawing upon the labour theory of property rights, and argues for a unified approach to the issue in relation to the common law of both England and Scotland. Drawing upon Scottish Records Office archives the commentary explores the background to, and substance of, the decision. It suggests that, given the nature of the economic threat which the Scottish reprint industry posed to the London book trade, particularly in relation to an increasingly lucrative export market, Hinton undermined much of the value of the decision in Millar. The conflict between Millar and Hinton made it almost inevitable that the question of literary property would soon reach the House of Lords. 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) Feather, J., The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Mann, A., The Scottish Book Trade 1500-1720, Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland (East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 2000) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Edinburgh Year 1773 Language English Source British Library: 1570/2401 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Anne (1665-1714) Austin, Elisabeth (fl.1752) Austin, Stephen (d.1750) Bently, Richard (1662-1742) Boswell, Alexander (1707-1782) Boswell, James (1740-1795) Boyle, The Hon Robert (1627-1691) Brown, George (d.1776) Bruce, Robert (1718-1785) Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of (1627-1687) Butler, Samuel (1612-1680) Campbell, Ilay (1734-1823) Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1345-1400) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Dalrymple, Sir David (1726-1792) Donaldson, Alexander (1727-1794) Donaldson, Sir James (1751-1830) Donatus, Aelius (fl.375) Dundas, Robert (1713-1787) Erskine, James (1722-1796) Forbes, William (fl.1703) Garden, Francis (1721-1793) Garthwait, Timothy (fl.1668) Gastrell, Francis (1662-1725) George II (1683-1760) Hammond, Henry (1605-1660) Hawkesworth, John (c.1715-1773) Hinton, John (d.1781) Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Homer (fl.700 B.C.-?) Hooker, Richard (1554-1600) Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782) Lickprivick, Robert (fl.1567) Macdowall, Andrew (1685-1760) Mackenzie, Sir George (1636-1691) McKonochie, Alexander (fl.1773) MacLaurin, John (1734-1796) Meurose, James (fl.1760-1770) Miller, Sir Thomas, 1st Baronet (1717-1789) Milton, John (1608-1674) Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord (1714-1799) Murray, Alexander (1736-1795) Nisbet, Sir John (1610-1688) Ossian Postlethwayt, Malachy (c.1707-1767) Rae, David (1729-1804) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Somers, John, 1st Baron (1651-1716) Spenser, Edmund (c.1552-1599) Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas (1681/82-1752) Stair, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount (1619-1695) Stewart, Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir (1720-1788) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Warburton, William (1698-1779) Wilkes, John (1727-1797) Wood, John (fl.1760-1770) Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) Persons referred to in commentary Anderson, William (fl.1772) Astrue, John (fl.1753) Austin, Stephen (d.1750) Becket, Thomas (1722-1813) Boswell, James (1740-1795) Brooke, Henry (c.1703-1783) Brown, George (d.1776) Campbell, Ilay (1734-1823) Clark, Robert (fl.1773) Craig, Sir Thomas (c.1538-1608) Dalrymple, Sir David (1726-1792) Darling, William (fl.1773) Dilly, Charles (1739-1807) Dilly, Edward (1732-1779) Donaldson, Alexander (1727-1794) Erskine, James (1722-1796) Falconer, Alexander (1593/94-1671) Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) Garden, Francis (1721-1793) Gilmour, Sir John (1605-1671) Gibson, Sir Alexander (d.1644) Gordon, William (fl.1772) Griffin, William (d.1775) Hinton, John (d.1781) Johnston, William (fl.1773) Justinian I (c.482-565) Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782) Mackenzie, Sir George (1636/38-1691) McKonochie, Alexander (fl.1770) MacLaurin, John (1734-1796) McLeish, John (fl.1773) McPherson, Alexander (fl.1773) McPherson, Gilbert (fl.1773) Maconnochie, Allan (fl.1773) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Meurose, James (fl.1760-1770) Millar, Andrew (1705-1768) Miller, Sir Thomas, 1st Baronet (1717-1789) Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord (1714-1799) Murray, Alexander (1736-1795) Nisbet, Sir John (1610-1688) Nugent, Thomas (c.1700-1772) Rae, David (1729-1804) Reid, John (fl.1773) Rivington, John (1720-1792) Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas (1681/82-1752) Stair, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount (1619-1695) Stuart, Sir James (1635-1713) Wood, John (fl.1760-1770) Yates, Joseph (1722-1770) Places referred to Berkshire Chevy Chase Edinburgh Geneva Great Britain Kilmarnock Scotland Places referred to in commentary America France Germany Glasgow Greenock Leith London Netherlands Norway Portugal Russia Scotland Spain Legislation referred to Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Legislation referred to in commentary Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, 1707, 5 & 6 Anne, c.8 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Importation Act, 1739, 12 Geo.II, c.36 Cases referred to Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Hinton v. Donaldson (1773) Cases referred to in commentary Tonson v. Collins (1761) 1 Black W 301 Tonson v. Collins (1762) 1 Black W 321, 1 Black W 329 Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Macklin v. Richardson (1770) Amb. 694 Hinton v. Donaldson (1773) Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Institutions referred to Court of Chancery Court of King's Bench Court of Sessions, Scotland Prerogative Court of Canterbury Privy Council Privy Council, Scotland Star Chamber Institutions referred to in commentary Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall Key words book trade common law copyright Enlightenment, the foreign reprints inventions labour theory patents, printing plagiarism property theory reprints scribal publication Responsible editor Ronan Deazley Copyright status (c) The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved, Licence No: 8716. Any copyright or database right that subsists in the Work or Reproduction remains the property either of the British Library Board or individual persons. 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