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Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report, New York (1834)

Source:
British Library 1246.i.11: Wheaton, Henry, Report of the Copy-right case of Wheaton v. Peters, decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an appendix, containing the acts of Congress relating to copy-right (New York 1834).

Citation:
Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (1834), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title
Report on the Copy-Right Case of Wheaton v. Peters Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States

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Abstract
An independent report published by Richard Peters of the Supreme Court case of Wheaton v. Peters. The report is somewhat different from the official report.

Bibliography
Abrams, Howard B. "The Historic Foundation of American Copyright Law: Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright." 29 Wayne L. Rev. 1119 (1983).
Joyce, Craig. "The Story of Wheaton v. Peters, in Intellectual Property Stories." In Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss eds. New York: Foundation Press, 2006.
____. "'A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature': Wheaton v. Peters and the Rest of the Story (of Copyright in the New Republic)." 42 Hous. L. Rev. 325 (2005).
McGill, Meredith L. "The Matter of the Text: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law." 9 American Literary History 1 (1997).

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New York

Year
1834

Language
English

Source
British Library 1246.i.11: Wheaton, Henry, Report of the Copy-right case of Wheaton v. Peters, decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an appendix, containing the acts of Congress relating to copy-right (New York 1834).

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Persons referred to
Anne (1665-1714)
Arden, Sir Richard, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744-1804)
Aston, Richard (1717-1778)
Baldwin, Henry (1780-1844)
Binney, Horace (1780-1875)
Blackstone, William (1723-1780)
Brent, Daniel Carroll (1770-1841)
Brown, Josiah (d.1793)
Burrow, Sir James (1701-1782)
Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl (1714-1794)
Carey, Henry Charles (1793-1879)
Carey, Matthew (1760-1839)
Carte, Thomas (1686-1754)
Charles II (1630-1685)
Chase, Samuel (1741-1811)
Christian, Edward (1758-1823)
Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)
Cranch, William (1769-1855)
Croke, Sir George (1560-1642)
Dalison, William (d.1559)
Dallas, Alexander James (1759-1817)
Donaldson, Robert (fl.1817-1831)
Duponceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Duvall, Gabriel (1752-1844)
Eldon, John Scott, 1st Earl of (1751-1838)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron (1750-1818)
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Baron (1750-1823)
Eyre, Sir James (1734-1799)
Gibbs, Sir Vicary (1751-1820)
Godson, Richard (1797-1849)
Grigg, John (fl.1831)
Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676)
Halstead, O. (fl.1831)
Hobart, Sir Henry (d.1625)
Hopkinson, Joseph (1770-1842)
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed (1786-1868)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron (1732-1802)
Lea, Isaac (1792-1886)
McKean, Thomas (1734-1817)
Madison, James (1751-1836)
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793)
Marshall, John (1755-1835)
Maugham, Robert (1788-1862)
Merlin, Philippe-Antoine (1778-1854)
Oakley, Thomas Jackson (1783-1857)
Paine, Elijah (1757-1842)
Penn, William (1644-1718)
Peters, Richard, Jr. (1780-1848)
Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (1632-94)
Sergeant, Thomas (1782-1860)
Story, Joseph (1779-1845)
Thompson, Smith (1768-1843)
Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862)
Vattel, Emerich de (1714-1767)
Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829)
Webster, Noah (1758-1843)
Wheaton, Henry (1785-1848)
Willes, Edward (c.1723-1787)
Yates, Joseph (1722-1770)
Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)

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Connecticut
Copenhagen
Denmark
England
Florida
France
Germany
Great Britain
Haarlem
Massachusetts
New York
North Carolina
Norway
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sweden
Virginia
Washington

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Legislation referred to
Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets 1647
Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1777, 17 Geo.III, c.57
Connecticut Copyright Statute 1783
Maryland Literary Property Statute 1783
Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783
New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783
New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783
North Carolina Literary Property Statute 1785
Virginia Copyright Statute 1785
New York Copyright Statute 1786
U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789
U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790)
U.S. Copyright Act 1802 (Amendment of 1790 Act), 2 Stat. 171 (1802)
Code Pénal 1810
French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810
Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156
U.S. Congress Act of 3 March 1817, relating to the office of Reporter of the Supreme Court
U.S. Congress Act of 1819, giving the circuit courts original jurisdiction over copyright cases
U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436

Legislation referred to in commentary
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Cases referred to
Roper v. Streater (1672) Bac. Abr. 6th ed., Vol.IV, 209
Stationers' Company v. Seymour (1677) 1 Mod. 256
Stationers' Company v. Parker (1686), King's Bench
Blackwell v. Harper (1740) 2 Atk. 93
Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342
Tonson v. Walker (1752) NA, c.11 1106/18, 3 Swans 672
Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303
Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129
Bell v. Walker and Debrett (1785) 1 Bro.C.C. 451
Harrison v. Hogg (1794) 2 Ves. Jun. 323
Beckford v. Hood (1798) 7 D. & E. 620
Cary v. Kearsley (1804) 4 Esp. 168
Nichols v. Ruggles (1808), 3 Day 145
Almy v. Harris (1809), 5 Johns (N. Y.) 175
University of Cambridge v. Bryer (1812) 16 East's 317
Percival v. Phipps (1813), 2 Ves. & Beames 19
Houston v. Moore (1820), 5 Wheaton
Newton v. Cowie (1822) 4 Bing 234
Ewer v. Coxe (1824), 4 Wash. C. C. Rep. 490
Gibbons v. Ogden 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591

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Institutions referred to
Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors
Court of Chancery, England
Court of King's Bench
House of Lords
Matthew Carey & Sons, Philadelphia (publishing firm)
Patent Office, U.S. Department of State
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Star Chamber
Stationers' Company
Stationers' Hall
U.S. Congress
U.S. Department of State, Washington
U.S. Secretary of State's Office
U.S. Supreme Court

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Key words
common law copyright
constitution, US
deposit
excluded subject matter
inventions
labour theory
law books
natural rights
patents, for invention
perpetual protection
property analogies
property theory
property theory, authors' property
public good

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Oren Bracha




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