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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:  | | Calico Printers' Act, London (1787) Source: Durham University Library Citation: Calico Printers' Act (1787), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1787 Full title An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing and printing Linens, Cottons, Callicoes, and Muslins, by vesting the Properties thereof, in the Designers, Printers and Proprietors, for a limited time, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation conferred exclusive rights lasting two months on those first printing 'new and original' patterns on linens, cottons, calicoes and muslins. The commentary describes the background to the Act, the challenge which the Northern cotton and printing industry presented to those printing fashionable cottons and calicoes in London, as well as the significance of the cotton industry to the British economy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Against this backdrop, the commentary also explores why it was that the protection provided by the legislature was limited to two months only, by comparison with the more generous copyright terms provided by the Statute of Anne 1710 (uk_1710) and the Engravers' Acts (uk_1735; uk_1766; uk_1777a). Bibliography Baines, E., History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (London: Fisher & Co., 1835). Reprinted in The Cotton Industry: Its Growth and Impact, 1600-1935, 9 vols. Edited by Chapman, S. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999), Vol.2 Chapman, S., and Chassange, S., European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: a Study of Peel and Oberkamps (London: Heinemann Educational, 1981) Longfield, A.K., "William Kilburn and the earliest Copyright Acts for Cotton Printing Designs", Burlington Magazine, 95 (1953): 230-33 Sherman, B., and Bently, L., The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law: the British Experience, 1760-1911 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Turnbull, G., A History of the Calico Printing Industry of Great Britain (Altrincham: John Sherratt & Son, 1951) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1787 Language English Source Durham University Library Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to George III (1738-1820) Persons referred to in commentary Applegarth, Augustus (c.1788-1871) Bell, Thomas (fl.1783) Kilburn, William (1745-1818) Peel, Sir Robert, Sr. (1750-1830) Yates, Ralph (fl.1764-1787) Places referred to England Great Britain Scotland Places referred to in commentary Aberdeen Bury (Lancashire) Carlisle Great Britain London Manchester Wallington (Surrey) Legislation referred to Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Calico Printers' Act, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38 Legislation referred to in commentary Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38 Act to prevent the seducing of artificers or workmen employed in printing calicoes, cottons, muslins, and linens, or in making or preparing blocks, plates or other implements used in that manufactory, to go to parts beyond the seas; and to prohibit the exporting to foreign parts of any such blocks, plates or other implements, 1782, Geo.III, c.60 Act for granting a bounty upon the exportation of British and Irish buckrams and tillettings, British and Irish linens, British calicoes and cottons, or cotton mixed with linen, printer, painted, stained, or dyed, in Great Britain, 1783, Geo.III, c.21 Calico Printers' Act, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38 Models and Busts Act, 1798, 38 Geo.III, c.71 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Court of Sessions, Scotland House of Commons House of Lords Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words authorship, theory of applied art, protected subject matter duration industrial revolution lobbying originality 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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