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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1862 Full title Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68 Full title original language N/A Abstract Legislation conferring copyright protection on paintings, drawings, and photographs for the life of the author plus a seven year post mortem term. The Act was also innovative in de-coupling the copyright term from the event of publication, in providing artists with a new form of 'moral rights' protection, and in introducing the concept of 'originality' as the standard threshold for copyright protection. The commentary explores the background to the legislation, and in particular, the international copyright regime, the nature of the art market in eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the role of the Society of Artists in lobbying for legislative protection, and the impetus which the International Exhibition provided for securing the same. The commentary also considers how the 1862 Bill, in its earliest incarnation, incorporated elements that would have signalled a radical departure from established copyright norms. In particular, the Bill proposed: that copyright protection should not be contingent upon registration; and that protection should be offered on a universal basis, regardless of an artists' nationality, and regardless of where the work in question was created. Bibliography Hutchison, S.C., The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1968 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1968) Lippincott, L., Selling Art in Georgian England: The Rise of Arthur Pond (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983) Pears, I., The Discovery of Painting. The Growth of the Interest in Arts in England 1680-1768 (New Haven, Connecticut & London: Yale University Press: 1988) Reitlinger, G., The Economics of Taste, The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760-1960 (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1862 Language English Source Durham Univeristy Library Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Victoria (1819-1901) Persons referred to in commentary Abbott, Charles (1762-1832) Bethell, Richard, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873) Blaine, Delabere Roberton (1807-1871) Bourne, Samuel (1834-1912) Boydell, John (1720-1804) Closs, Thomas (fl.1858) Cockburn, Alexander James Edmund (1802-1880) Copinger, Walter Arthur (1847-1910) Copley, John Singleton (1738-1815) Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) Eastlake, Sir Charles (1793-1865) Frith, Francis (1822-1898) George III (1738-1820) Grosvenor, Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl of (1731-1802) Landseer, Charles (1799/1800-1879) Landseer, Sir Edwin (1802-1873) Lewis, John Frederick (1804-1876) Lewis, John Harvey (1814-1888) Linnell, John (1792-1882) Loyd, Samuel Jones, 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Martin, John (1789-1854) Palmer, Roundell, 1st Earl of Selborne (1812-1895) Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865) Reinagle, Philip (1748-1833) Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) Rolfe, Robert Monsey, 1st Baron Cranworth (1790-1868) Rutland, Charles Manners, 4th Duke of (1754-1787) Sackville, John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-1799) Shadwell, Lancelot (1779-1850) Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Thomson, John (1837-1921) Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Waldeck, Friedrich Karl August, Prince of (1763-1812) Walpole, Spencer Horatio (1806-1898) Walter, John (1818-1894) West, Benjamin (1738-1820) Wolfe, James (1727-1759) Woollett, William (1735-1785) Places referred to Dublin England Ireland Scotland Westminster Places referred to in commentary Berkshire Berne Crimea Damascus Egypt England France Germany Great Britain Jerusalem Liverpool Middle East Nile River Palestine Paris Prussia Syria Vienna Legislation referred to Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68 Legislation referred to in commentary Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38 Models and Busts Act, 1798, 38 Geo.III, c.71 Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.56 Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15 International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59 Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Copyright of Designs Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.100 International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12 Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1846 Anglo-Saxonian Copyright Treaty 1846 Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851 French International Copyright Act 1852 Anglo-Belgian Copyright Treaty 1854 Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty 1857 Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Sayre v. Moore (1785) 1 East 361 De Berenger v. Wheble (1819) 2 Stark 548 Newton v. Cowie (1822) 4 Bing 234 Clementi v. Walker (1824) 2 B. & C. 861 Martin v. Wright (1833) 6 Sim. 297 Moon v. Broker (1840) The Times, 27 June 1840 Chappell v. Purday (1845) 14 M. & W. 303 Bailey v. Harrison (1849) The Times, 28 February 1849 Jeffreys v. Boosey (1854) 4 HLC 815 The Queen v. Closs (1858) D. & B. 460 Institutions referred to Court of Sessions, Scotland Parliament Stationers' Hall Institutions referred to in commentary British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts House of Commons House of Lords International Exhibition 1862 Liverpool Photographic Society New Water-Colour Society Parliament Royal Academy Royal Commission on Copyright Royal Society of Arts (RSA); also: Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Stationers' Hall Key words art market copy drawings, protected subject matter duration duration, post mortem term fraud importation international agreements, bilateral lobbying originality paintings, protected subject matter photography, protected subject matter registration reputation transferability Responsible editor Ronan Deazley Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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