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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:  | | Foreign Reprints Act, London (1847) Source: Durham University Library Citation: Foreign Reprints Act (1847), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1847 Full title An Act to amend the Law relating to the Protection in the Colonies of Works entitled to Copyright in the United Kingdom, 22nd July 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation enabling colonial territories to import unauthorised foreign reprints subject to the payment of an import duty, to be collected for the benefit of British publishers. The commentary explores the background to the Foreign Reprints Act 1847, and in particular, the differences between the British and colonial markets for literary works, and the introduction of 'responsible government' in the colonies. It also considers the movement in the late 1860s and early 1870s, on the part of the British book trade, to have the legislation repealed, as well as the efforts of the Canadian legislature to replace the import scheme with a system of compulsory licensing, set against the backdrop of increasingly fractious Anglo-Canadian copyright relations. The Canadian demands for compulsory licensing scheme were by and large abandoned, and the 1847 Act remained on the statute books until the passing of the Copyright Act 1911. Bibliography Daldy, F.R., The Colonial Copyright Acts (London: Longmans & Co., 1889) Nowell-Smith, S., International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the reign of Queen Victoria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) Seville, C., The Internationalisation of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Ward, J.M., Colonial Self-Government, The British Experience 1759-1856 (London: MacMillan, 1976) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1847 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 Bentley, George (1828-1895) Blaine, Delabere Roberton (1807-1871) Chambers, William (1800-1883) Chapman, Frederick (fl.1870) Colebrooke, William (1787-1870) Daldy, Frederick Richard (fl.1854-1886) Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl (1799-1869) Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Dunkin, Christopher (1812-1881) Falkland, Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount (1803-1884) Farrer, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Farrer (1819-1899) Ferguson, James (fl.1870) Gibson, Thomas Milner (1806-1884) Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) Grey, Henry Grey, 3rd Earl (1802-1894) Harvey, John (1778-1852) Hawes, Sir Benjamin (1797-1862) Helps, Sir Arthur (1813-1875) Hincks, Sir Francis (1807-1885) Howitt, William (1792-1879) Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of (1818-1887) Labouchere, Henry, 1st Baron Taunton (1798-1869) Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891) Longman, Thomas, IV (1804-1879) MacMillan, Alexander (1818-1896) Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount (1779-1848) Murray, John, III (1808-1892) Parker, John (1799-1881) Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850) Reeve, Henry (1813-1895) Rose, Sir John (1820-1888) Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878) Shaw-Lefevre, George, 1st Baron Eversley (1831-1928) Smith, William Henry (1808-1872) Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) Places referred to America Great Britain Places referred to in commentary America Antigua Australia Bahamas Islands Barbados Bermuda British Guiana (Guyana) Canada Cape of Good Hope England Grenada Halifax (Canada) Jamaica London Mauritius Natal Nevis New Brunswick New South Wales Newfoundland Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island St Christopher Island (St Kitts) St Lucia St Vincent Trinidad and Tobago Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) Victoria (Australia) West Indies Legislation referred to Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Customs Act, 1845, 8 & 9 Vict., c.93 Foreign Reprints Act, 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95 Legislation referred to in commentary Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Customs Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.47 Customs Act, 1845, 8 & 9 Vict., c.93 Act to enable the Legislatures of certain British Possessions to reduce or repeal certain Duties of Customs, 1846, 9 & 10 Vict., c.94 Foreign Reprints Act, 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95 British North America Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict., c.3 Canadian Copyright Act, 1868, 31 Vict., c.54 Canadian Copyright Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.53 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Low v. Routledge (1865-1868) Low v. Ward (1868) 6 LR (Eq) 415 Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Board of Trade Canadian Assembly Canadian Senate Colonial Office, London Copyright Association of Great Britain Royal Commission on Copyright Key words Anglo-American book trade foreign reprints importation 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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