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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1838 Full title International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict. c.59 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation providing that the British monarch could, by Order in Council, grant copyright protection, within Britain and its Dominions, to the authors of literary works first published abroad for a period specified within the Order but not exceeding the domestic copyright term. The Act provided the first occasion on which the British legislature offered the possibility of copyright protection for the work of foreign authors. Its timing is indicative of the widespread attention which the issue of international copyright had begun to attract in Britain, on the continent, and in the United States. The commentary describes the background to the legislation in relation to British attitudes to the importation of foreign works throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in the context of early nineteenth century debates before the courts as to whether the work of foreign authors was in any event protected under existing legislative measures (see also: uk_1854). The commentary also explores the reasons for the failure of the British government to successfully negotiate any bilateral agreements under the legislation, but nevertheless suggests that the 1838 Act provided an important platform upon which to build a subsequent and more successful regime of international copyright protection (see also: uk_1844; uk_1852; uk_1886). Bibliography Barnes, J.J., Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement 1815-1854 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974) Clark, A.J., The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth Century America (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1960) Sherman, B., and Bently, L., The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1838 Language English Source Durham University Library Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Victoria (1819-1901) Persons referred to in commentary Auber, Daniel François Esprit (1782-1871) Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) Baillière, Hippolyte-Pierre (1809-1867) Baillière, Jean-Baptiste (1797-1885) Baudry Bayley, Sir John (1763-1841) Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Buckley, Samuel (fl.1710-1733) Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Caxton, William (c.1422-c.1492) Clay, Henry (1777-1852) d'Almaine, Thomas (c.1784-1866) Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849) Galignani Galignani, Giovanni Antonio (1757-1821) Galignani, Guillaume (1798-1882) Galignani, Jean Antoine (1796-1873) Goulburn, Henry (1784-1856) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Hook, Theodore (1788-1841) Inglis, Sir Robert (1786-1855) James, George Payne Rainsford (1801-1860) Kalkbrenner, Friedrich (1785-1849) Locke, John (1632-1704) Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron (1803-1873) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865) Scarlett, James (1769-1844) Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Shadwell, Lancelot (1779-1850) Spring Rice, Thomas (1790-1866) Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard (1816-1895) Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Thomson, Charles Poulett, 1st Baron Sydenham (1799-1841) Thou, Jacques Auguste de (1553-1617) Twiss, Horace (1787-1849) Victoria (1819-1901) Wood, William Page, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801-1881) Places referred to Great Britain Ireland London Scotland Places referred to in commentary Austria Belgium Denmark Europe France Germany London Netherlands Norway Paris Piccadilly Prussia Saxony Spain Sweden United States Washington Westminster Legislation referred to International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59 Legislation referred to in commentary Several Restraints of Aliens, 1484, 1 Ric.III, c.9. Act for Printers, and Binders of Books, 1534, 25 Hen.VIII, c.15 Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Importation Act, 1739, 12 Geo.II, c.36 French Copyright Act 1793 Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 Act for granting to Samuel Buckley, Citizen and Stationer of London, the sole Liberty of Printing and Reprinting the Histories of Thuanus, with Additions and Improvements, during the Time therein limited, 1834, 7 Geo.II, c.24. Prussian Copyright Act 1837 International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59 International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12 International Copyright Act, 1852, 15 & 16 Vict., c.12 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Bach v. Longman (1777) 2 Cowp. 623 Power v. Walker (1814) 3 M. & S. 7 Clementi v. Walker (1824) 2 B. & C. 861 Delondre v. Shaw (1828) 2 Sim. 237 Guichard v. Mori (1831) 2 Coopers 216 Page v. Townsend (1832) 5 Sim. 395 D'Almaine v. Boosey (1835) 1 Y. & C. 288 Jeffreys v. Boosey (1854) 4 HLC 815 Low v. Routledge (1865-1868) Institutions referred to British Museum Court of Chancery, England Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall Institutions referred to in commentary British Museum Foreign Office, London National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Stationers' Company University of London Key words deposit duration foreign reprints importation international agreements, bilateral maps, protected subject matter music, protected subject matter new editions reciprocity registration Stationers' Company 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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