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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:  | | Letters from Sumner to Story, Washington D.C. (1834) Source: Library of Congress, Joseph Story Papers Citation: Letters from Sumner to Story (1834), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: us_1834c Full title Letters from Charles Sumner to Joseph Story Full title original language N/A Abstract Two letters from Charles Sumner to his friend Justice Joseph Story. In the letters Sumner describes the delivery of the Wheaton v. Peters opinion by the Supreme Court, an event from which Story was absent. According to the description the scene included visible tensions between the majority and minority judges as well as an order by Chief Justice Marshall to the reporter Richard Peters not to mention those tensions in his 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). Related documents in this database Author Charles Sumner Publisher N/A Location Washington D.C. Year 1834 Language English Source Library of Congress, Joseph Story Papers Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Baldwin, Henry (1780-1844) Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850) Cowen, Esek (1787-1844) Duvall, Gabriel (1752-1844) Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845) Leigh, Benjamin Watkins (1781-1849) Lincoln, Levi, Jr. (1782-1868) McDuffie, George (1790-1851) McLean, John (1785-1861) Marshall, John (1755-1835) Peters, Richard, Jr. (1780-1848) Pinckney, Henry Laurens (1794-1863) Porter, Robert (1768-1842) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Thompson, Smith (1768-1843) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Wheaton, Henry (1785-1848) Persons referred to in commentary Marshall, John (1755-1835) Peters, Richard, Jr. (1780-1848) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher (1795-1864) Places referred to Cambridge, Massachusetts Louisiana New Orleans Washington Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591 Cases referred to in commentary Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591 Institutions referred to U.S. Congress U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court Institutions referred to in commentary U.S. Supreme Court Key words common law copyright Responsible editor Oren Bracha 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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