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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:  | | Copyright Act, London (1814) Source: Durham University Library Citation: Copyright Act (1814), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: uk_1814 Full title An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of Printed Books, to the Authors of such Books or their Assigns, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation replacing the Statute of Anne (uk_1710) and providing that copyright in a literary work would last for twenty-eight years from the time of publication, but that 'if the author shall be living' at the end of that period then the work was to be protected 'for the residue of his natural life'. The commentary explores the background to the legislation, and in particular the controversy over the library deposit provision in the wake of the decision in Beckford v. Hood (uk_1798a). The commentary suggests that the introduction of the reversionary lifetime copyright term had more to do with the opportunistic and timely intervention of one Member of Parliament (Samuel Egerton Brydges) than with any principled or considered position adopted on the part of the legislature. Bibliography Barnes, J.J., Free Trade in Books: A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) Feather, J., "Publishers and Politicians: The Remaking of the Law of Copyright in Britain 1775-1842, Part I: Legal Deposit and the Battle of the Library Tax", Publishing History, 24 (1988): 49-76 McKitterick, D., Cambridge University Library, A History: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Partridge, R.C.B., The history of the legal deposit of books throughout The British Empire (London: The Library Association, 1938) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1814 Language English Source Durham University Library Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Anne (1665-1714) George III (1738-1820) Persons referred to in commentary Babington, Thomas (1758-1837) Britton, John (1771-1857) Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837) Bryer, Henry (fl.1812) Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Butterworth, John (fl.1814) Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) Christian, Edward (1758-1823) Christian, Fletcher (c.1764-c.1794) Cochrane, John George (1781-1852) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1832) Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847) Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848) Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron (1750-1818) Giddy, Davies (1767-1839) Hamilton, Lord Archibald (1770-1827) Heywood, Samuel (1753-1822) Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron (1732-1802) Law, Rt Rev Edmund (1703-1787) Le Blanc, Sir Simon (1748/49-1816) Longman, Thomas Norton (1771-1842) Marsh, Charles (c.1774-1835) Mawman, Joseph (fl.1797-1815) Milton, John (1608-1674) Montagu, Basil (1770-1851) Nichols, John (1745-1826) Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865) Romilly, Samuel (1757-1818) Ruding, Rogers (1751-1820) Scott, Sir William, 1st Baron Stowell (1745-1836) Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Smyth, J.H. (fl.1813) Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Turner, Sharon (1768-1847) Villiers, John (1757-1838) Williams-Wynn, Charles Watkins (1775-1850) Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Places referred to Ireland Isle of Man Guernsey Jersey Scotland Places referred to in commentary Bodmin Cambridge Dublin London Maidstone Portugal Queenborough (Kent) Westminster Legislation referred to Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107 Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38 Universities Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53 Designers and Printers Act, 1794, 34 Geo.III, c.23 Models and Busts Act, 1798, 38 Geo.III, c.71 Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107 Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.56 Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Carnan v. Bowles (1786) 1 Cox 283 Beckford v. Hood (1798) 7 D. & E. 620 University of Cambridge v. Bryer (1812) 16 East's 317 Brooke v. Clarke (1818) 1 B. & Ald. 396 Institutions referred to Bodleian Library, Oxford British Museum Court of Sessions, Scotland Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh Royal Library Sion College, London Society of the King's Inns, Dublin Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall Trinity College, Dublin University and King's College of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of St Andrews Institutions referred to in commentary British Museum Cambridge University Library Court of King's Bench House of Commons House of Lords Peterhouse College, Cambridge Stationers' Company University and King's College of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Oxford University of St Andrews Key words authorship, romantic concept of books, protected subject matter book trade deposit duration editions, new learning, the advancement of libraries lobbying penalties registration Stationers' Company universities Responsible editor Ronan Deazley Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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