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Petition of British Authors, Washington D.C. (1837)

Source:
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Petition of Thomas Moore, and Other Authors of Great Britain, 24th Cong., 2d sess., 1837, S. Doc. 134.

Citation:
Petition of British Authors (1837), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
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Full title
Petition of THOMAS MOORE, AND OTHER AUTHORS OF GREAT BRITAIN, Praying Congress to grant to them the Exclusive Benefit of their Writings within the United States

Full title original language
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Abstract
A petition of British authors submitted to Congress. The petition advocated copyright protection for British authors in the United States.

Bibliography
Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1974.
Clark, Aubert J. The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth Century America. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1960.
Khan, B. Zorina. The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Location
Washington D.C.

Year
1837

Language
English

Source
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Petition of Thomas Moore, and Other Authors of Great Britain, 24th Cong., 2d sess., 1837, S. Doc. 134.

Physical description
microform

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Persons referred to
Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)
Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Bell, Sir Charles (1774-1842)
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, née Power (1789-1849)
Bonaparte, Lucien, 1st Prince of Canino (1775-1840)
Bostock, John (1773-1846)
Buchanan, James (1791-1868)
Buckland, William (1784-1856)
Bulwer, Henry Lytton (1801-1872)
Calcott, Lady Maria, née Graham (1786-1842)
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
Caunter, Rev. John Hobart (1794-1851)
Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847)
Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)
Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839)
D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)
Ewing, Thomas (1789-1871)
Griffin, Gerald (1803-1840)
Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth (1778-1850)
Hall, Anna Maria, née Fielding (1800-1881)
Hall, Samuel Carter (1800-1889)
Hallam, Henry (1777-1859)
Hayward, Abraham (1801-1884)
Howitt, Mary (1799-1888)
Howitt, William (1792-1879)
James, George Payne Rainsford (1801-1860)
Keightley, Thomas (1789-1872)
Kirby, William (1759-1850)
Lodge, Sir Edmund (1756-1839)
Louganis, John Claudius (1783-1843)
Lyell, Charles (1767-1849)
Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875)
Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron (1803-1873)
Macfarlane, Charles (1799-1858)
McVickar, Rev. John (1787-1868)
Marsh, Anne, née Caldwell (1791-1874)
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
Milman, Rev. Henry Hart (1791-1868)
Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871)
Opie, Amelia (1769-1853)
Pardoe, Julia (1806-1862)
Potter, Rev. John Philips (1793-1861)
Preston, William Campbell (1794-1860)
Prout, William (1785-1850)
Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855)
Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Somerville, Mary, née Fairfax (1780-1872)
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
Stuart-Wortley, Lady Emmeline, née Manners (1806-1855)
Tagart, Edward (1804-1858)
Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854)
Temple, Major Sir Grenville (1799-1847)
Vaughan, Robert (1795-1868)
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
Whewell, William (1794-1866)
White, Charles (1793-1861)

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Key words
Anglo-American
authenticity
authors' remuneration
book trade
foreign reprints
international agreements, bilateral
lobbying
moral rights, attribution
moral rights, integrity
newspapers
property theory, authors' property
public good
reputation

Responsible editor
Oren Bracha




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