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Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston, Washington D.C. (1838)

Source:
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston praying The passage of an international copyright law, 25th Cong., 2d sess., 1838, S. Doc. 398.

Citation:
Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (1838), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title
Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston, Praying the Passage of an International Copyright Law

Full title original language
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Abstract
A petition to Congress advocating the legislation of international copyright protection.

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
1838

Language
English

Source
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston praying The passage of an international copyright law, 25th Cong., 2d sess., 1838, S. Doc. 398.

Physical description
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Persons referred to
Appleton, Samuel A. (1766-1853)
Argenti, Felix (b.c.1800)
Arnold, Samuel Greene (1821-1880)
Bigelow, Horatio Nelson (1816-1868)
Blanchard, John Adams (1807-1872)
Bond, George William (1811-1892)
Boyle, Rev. Isaac (1782-1850)
Chamberlin, Daniel (1810-1879)
Choate, Rufus (1799-1859)
Coxe, Arthur Cleveland (1818-1896)
Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894)
Dunlap, William (1766-1839)
Durivage, Francis Alexander (1814-1881)
Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum (1818-1893)
Emerson, Frederick (1788-1857)
Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
Felton, Cornelius Conway (1807-1862)
Gassett, Oscar (fl.1838)
Greene, Nathaniel (1797-1877)
Hillard, George Stillman (1808-1879)
Hunter, John Ward (1807-1900)
Knapp, Isaac (1804-1843)
Lawrence, Amos Adams (1814-1886)
Lawrence, Samuel (1801-1880)
Mathews, Cornelius (1817-1889)
Northall, William Knight (fl.1838-1851)
Odiorne, Thomas (1769-1851)
Perkins, Thomas (1764-1854)
Phillips, Willard (1784-1873)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Willard, Joseph (1798-1865)
Wolcott, Joshua Huntington (1804-1891)
Wright, John S (1788-1874)

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Boston, Massachusetts
Great Britain

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Institutions referred to
Patent Office, U.S. Department of State
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate

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Key words
Anglo-American
anonymous works
authenticity
authors' remuneration
book market
book trade
learning, the advancement of
lobbying
moral rights, integrity
property theory, authors' property
reputation
transferability

Responsible editor
Oren Bracha




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