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Marsh (C.C.D.Mass. 1841) (No. 4,901) Full title original language N/A Abstract A case decided by Justice Joseph Story that expanded the scope of copyright protection and laid the foundations to the later fair use doctrine. The case involved a controversy over the use in a George Washington biography of excerpts from his letters that were previously published in a collection of Washington's papers. The commentary describes the ways in which the dispute created a clash between the popular republican ideology of the antebellum period, one that celebrated the broad and uninhibited access to knowledge by an informed citizenry, and a rising trend of understanding copyright in commercial market terms. The identity of the texts at issue sharpened this tension and produced competing images of Washington's papers as a national-public resource or commercial-private property. The commentary argues that Justice Story's decision of the case reinterpreted traditional copyright doctrines that had previously shielded most secondary uses of copyrighted works, subjected such uses to more stringent limitations, and laid the doctrinal and intellectual foundations for additional future developments in this vein. Bibliography Culver, Michael. "An Examination of the July 8, 1838 Letter from Harriet Martineau to United States Supreme Court Joseph Story As It Pertains to United States Copyright Law." 32 J. Copyright Soc'y 38 (1984). Reese, Anthony R. "The Story of Folsom v. Marsh: Distinguishing Between Infringing and Legitimate Uses." In Intellectual Property Stories, eds. Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss. New York: Foundation Press, 2006, 259. Tehranian, John. "Et Tu, Fair Use? The Triumph of Natural-Law Copyright." 38 U.C. Davis Law Review 465 (2005). Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Massachusetts Year 1841 Language English Source The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library KF 117 1st S76 1842: Folsom v. Marsh, 9 F. Cas. 342 (C.C.D. Mass. 1841). Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bathurst, Henry, 2nd Earl (1714-1794) Bickersteth, Henry, 1st Baron Langdale (1783-1851) Capen, Nahum (1804-1886) Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773) Cowper, William (1731-1800) Eldon, John Scott, 1st Earl of (1751-1838) Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron (1750-1818) Folsom, Charles (1794-1872) Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Godson, Richard (1797-1849) Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) Henley, Robert, 1st Earl of Northington (c.1708-1772) Hillard, George Stillman (1808-1879) Jay, John (1745-1829) Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Lyon, Gardner P. (fl.1841) Madison, James (1751-1836) Marsh, Bela (1797-1869) Marshall, John (1755-1835) Pepys, Charles Christopher, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781-1851) Phillips, Willard (1784-1873) Pierrepoint, Lady Mary (1689-1762) Plumer, Sir Thomas (1753-1824) Rantoul, Robert, Jr. (1805-1852) Russell, Lady Rachel, née Wriothesley (c.1636-1723) Shadwell, Lancelot (1779-1850) Sparks, Jared (1789-1866) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Thurston, Lyman (fl.1841) Upham, Rev. Charles Wentworth (1802-1875) Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797) Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829) Washington, George (1732-1799) Webb, Thomas B. (fl.1841) Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (1769-1852) Wells, Thomas G. (fl.1827-1841) Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) Persons referred to in commentary Capen, Nahum (1804-1886) Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894) Drone, Eaton Sylvester (1842-1917) Folsom, Charles (1794-1872) Hillard, George Stillman (1808-1879) Lyon, Gardner P. (fl.1841) Marsh, Bela (1797-1869) Marshall, John (1755-1835) Phillips, Willard (1784-1873) Rantoul, Robert, Jr. (1805-1852) Sparks, Jared (1789-1866) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Vane, Sir Henry (1613-1662) Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829) Washington, George (1732-1799) Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Wheaton, Henry (1785-1848) Places referred to Boston, Massachusetts Places referred to in commentary Boston, Massachusetts Legislation referred to U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 Legislation referred to in commentary U.S. Patent Act 1819 Cases referred to Gyles v. Wilcox (1741) 2 Atk. 141 Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342 Tonson v. Walker (1752) NA, c.11 1106/18, 3 Swans 672 Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329 Dodsley v. Kinnersley (1761) Amb. 403 Thompson v. Stanhope (1774) Amb. 737 Roworth v. Wilkes (1807) M. & R. 94 Wilkins v. Aikin (1810) 17 Ves. Jun. 422 Perceval v. Phipps (1813), 2 Ves. & B. 21, 28 Whittingham v. Wooler (1817) 2 Swanst. 428 Gee v. Pritchard (1818), 2 Swans. 402 Mawman v. Tegg (1826), 2 Russ. 385 Saunders v. Smith (1838) Lewis v Fullarton (1839) Sweet v. Shaw (1839), 17 L.J. Ch. 216 Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass. Cases referred to in commentary Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342 Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591 Gray v. Russell, 10 F.Cas. 1035 (C.C.D. Mass. 1839) Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass. Emerson v. Davies (1845), 3 St. Rep. 780 Cambell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. (1994) Institutions referred to Massachusetts Circuit Court U.S. Congress Institutions referred to in commentary Harvard University Massachusetts Board of Education Massachusetts Circuit Court U.S. Congress U.S. Supreme Court Key words abridgements authorship, theory of defences and exemptions derivatives excluded subject matter fair use letters manuscript piracy plagiarism private domain property theory, authors' property property theory, publishers' property public domain remedies 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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