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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:  | | Virginia Copyright Statute, Virginia (1785) Source: British Library, A.S.V.46/3: The Statutes at Large, being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session of the legislature, in the year 1619 (New York, Richmond, Philadelphia: William Walter Hening, 1823) 12:30-31. Citation: Virginia Copyright Statute (1785), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: us_1785 Full title An Act securing to authors of literary works an exclusive property therein for a limited time Full title original language N/A Abstract One of the general copyright statutes protecting authors legislated by twelve out of the thirteen states in the 1780s. Bibliography Bugbee, Bruce Willis. The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967. Crawford, Francine. "Pre-Constitutional Copyright Statutes." Bull. Copyright Soc. 23 (1975): 11-37 Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Virginia Year 1785 Language English Source British Library, A.S.V.46/3: The Statutes at Large, being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session of the legislature, in the year 1619 (New York, Richmond, Philadelphia: William Walter Hening, 1823) 12:30-31. Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834) Persons referred to in commentary N/A Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Virginia Copyright Statute 1785 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Virginia General Assembly Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words books, protected subject matter duration foreign reprints importation inheritability penalties, paid to author(s) registration transferability Responsible editor Oren Bracha Copyright status (c) The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved, Licence No: 8716. Any copyright or database right that subsists in the Work or Reproduction remains the property either of the British Library Board or individual persons. The Work or Reproduction may not be used, sold, licensed, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner or form or in or on any media to any person without the prior written consent of the British Library. Photographic images and scans of public domain documents may be protected under some copyright laws and/or contractual restrictions apply. If you wish to use images of this document in other contexts, please contact the relevant archive (see source). Translation and commentary fall under the project licence (see home page). | |||||
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