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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Commentary Record-ID: us_1847 Full title A Treatise on the Law of Copyright Full title original language N/A Abstract The First American legal treatise on the subject of copyright. The treatise, written by George Ticknor Curtis and published in 1847, anticipated the major developments of copyright law and doctrine during the nineteenth century. The commentary describes the intellectual environment that may have sparked the interest of Curtis in the field and helped to shape his outlook. It goes on to describe the general themes of the treatise, its theoretical, historical, and doctrinal content, and its reception by contemporary observers. Bibliography Calhoun, Richard Frank. George Ticknor Curtis: Nineteenth-Century Constitutional Historian and Publicist. PhD diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 2001. Leach, Richard H. "George Ticknor Curtis and Daniel Webster's 'Villainies.'" 27 The New England Quarterly 27 (1954), 391-395. Lubar, Steven. "The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law." In "Patents and Inventions." Special Issue, 32 Technology and Culture 932 (1991). Related documents in this database Author George Ticknor Curtis Publisher C.C. Little and J. Brown Location Boston Year 1847 Language English Source The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library K 1420.5 C87 1847: George Ticknor Curtis, A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1847). Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Adam, Alexander (1741-1809) Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Anne (1665-1714) Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) Aston, Richard (1717-1778) Atkyns, Sir Edward (1630-1698) Azuni, Domenico Alberto (1749-1827) Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Baldwin, Henry (1780-1844) Bancroft, George (1800-1891) Barbeyrac, Jean (c.1674-1744) Baskett, Thomas (1701-1761) Bathurst, Henry, 2nd Earl (1714-1794) Beattie, James (1735-1803) Bell, George Joseph (1770-1843) Bently, Richard (1662-1742) Bickersteth, Henry, 1st Baron Langdale (1783-1851) Blackstone, William (1723-1780) Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) Burke, Peter (1811-1881) Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques (1694-1748) Burnet, Dr. Thomas (c.1635-1715) Burrow, Sir James (1701-1782) Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl (1714-1794) Charles II (1630-1685) Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773) Clarke, Sir Thomas (1703/04-1764) Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634) Colburn, Warren (1793-1883) Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) Croke, Sir George (1560-1642) Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894) de Grey, William (1719-1781) de La Rochette, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy (1731-1802) Douglas, Charles, 3rd Duke of Queensberry (1698-1778) Dunning, John (1731-1783) Edward I (1239-1307) 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) Evans, Sir William David (1767-1821) Eyre, Sir James (1734-1799) Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730) Fox, Charles James (1749-1806) Gadbury, John (1627-1704) Godson, Richard (1797-1849) Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, Sr. (1787-1859) Grafton, Richard (d.1572) Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645) Gwyn, Francis (1648-1734) Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676) Hawkesworth, John (c.1715-1773) Henley, Robert, 1st Earl of Northington (c.1708-1772) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Holt, Sir John (1642-1710) Homer (fl.700 B.C.-?) Hume, David (1711-1776) Hurd, Richard (1720-1808) Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) Hyde, Henry, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709) Irving, Washington (1783-1859) James I (1566-1625) Jekyll, Joseph (c.1662-1738) Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) Justinian I (c.482-565) Kent, James (1763-1847) Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron (1732-1802) Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749-1827) Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867) Leach, Sir John (1760-1834) Locke, John (1632-1704) Locré, Jean-Guillaume, Baron de (1758-1840) Lyttelton, Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1744-1779) McLean, John (1785-1861) Madison, James (1751-1836) Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl (1705-1793) Martin, John (1789-1854) Maugham, Robert (1788-1862) Maury, Jean Siffrein (1746-1817) Merlin, Philippe-Antoine (1778-1854) Millar, Andrew (1705-1768) Milton, John (1608-1674) Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805) Napoleon I (1769-1821) Nelson, Robert (1656-1714) Newton, Thomas (1704-1782) Onslow, George (1731-1792) Pardessus, Jean-Marie (1772-1853) Parker, Thomas (1667-1732) Parsons, Theophilus (1749-1813) Pepys, Charles Christopher, 1st Earl of Cottenham (1781-1851) Peters, Richard, Jr. (1780-1848) Plumer, Sir Thomas (1753-1824) Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Pothier, Robert-Joseph (1699-1772) Pradon, Jacques (1632-1698) Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (1632-94) Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Renouard, Augustin-Charles (1794-1878) Richard II (1367-1400) Robertson, William (1721-1793) Rolle, Henry (1589-1656) Romilly, Samuel (1757-1818) Rutherforth, Thomas (1712-1771) Selden, John (1584-1654) Sewell, Thomas (c.1710-1784) Shadwell, Lancelot (1779-1850) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Shebbeare, John (1709-1788) Simmons, Samuel (1640-1687) Skynner, Sir John (1723-1805) Smythe, Sir Sidney Stafford (1705-1778) Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Stair, John Dalrymple, 5th Earl (1720-1789) Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Strahan, William (1715-1785) Streater, John (c.1620-1677) Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Talbot, Charles, 1st Baron Talbot (1685-1737) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Taylor, Robert (fl.1763) Tenterden, Charles Abbott, 1st Baron (1762-1832) Thompson, Smith (1768-1843) Thomson, James (1700-1748) Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron (1731-1806) Tindal, Sir Nicholas Conyngham (1776-1846) Tonson, Jacob, 'the Elder' (1655/56-1736) Tyler, Wat (d.1381) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Wallis, John (1616-1703) Walworth, Reuben Hyde (1788-1867) Ward, Roger (fl.1586) Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829) Washington, George (1732-1799) Wedderburn, Alexander, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1733-1805) Wheaton, Henry (1785-1848) Wigram, Sir James (1793-1866) Willes, Edward (c.1723-1787) William III (1650-1702) Wolfe, John (d.1601) Woodfall, Henry (1686-1747) Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Yates, Joseph (1722-1770) Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) Persons referred to in commentary Copinger, Walter Arthur (1847-1910) Curtis, Benjamin Robbins (1809-1874) Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894) Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Drone, Eaton Sylvester (1842-1917) Godson, Richard (1797-1849) Goodyear, Charles (1800-1860) McLean, John (1785-1861) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Places referred to America Belgium Birmingham Boston, Massachusetts Connecticut Denmark England France Germany Great Britain Massachusetts Netherlands Norway Paris Pennsylvania Rome Russia Sardinia Spain Sweden Places referred to in commentary Boston, Massachusetts London Watertown, Massachusetts Legislation referred to Star Chamber Decree 1586 Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3 Star Chamber Decree 1637 An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1649 Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33 Licensing Act, 1685, 1 Jac.II, c.17 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Ann. c. 19 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38 Copyright Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53 Engravers' Copyright Act, 1777, 17 Geo.III, c.57 Connecticut Copyright Statute 1783 Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783 U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789 U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790) French Copyright Act 1793 Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107 French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810 Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.56 Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156 U.S. Congress Act of 1819, giving the circuit courts original jurisdiction over copyright cases Russian Council of State decree (1830), on the duration of copyright U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15 Publication of Lectures Act, 1835, 5 & 6 Will.IV, c.65 Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.59 Copyright Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.110 Prussian Copyright Act 1837 International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59 Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45 Belgian copyright legislation Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Ann. c. 19 U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789 U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790) U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 Cases referred to Roper v. Streater (1672) Bac. Abr. 6th ed., Vol.IV, 209 Stationers' Company v. Seymour (1677) 1 Mod. 256 Ponder v. Bradyll (1679), 13 Car. 2. Lill. Entr. 67 Stationers' Company v. Parker (1686), King's Bench Burnet v. Chetwood (1721) 2 Mer. 441 Webb v. Rose (1732) NA, c.11 1534/62, 1881/156 Eyre v. Walker (1735) NA, c.11 1520/29 Motte v. Faulkner (1735) NA, c.11 2249/4 Walthoe v. Walker (1736) NA, c.11 1534/62 Blackwell v. Harper (1740) 2 Atk. 93 Read v. Hodges (1740) NA, c.11 538/36 Forrester v. Walker (1741) NA, c.11 867/54 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 Jeffreys v. Baldwin (1753), Amb. 164, 2nd ed. Basket v. University of Cambridge (1758) 2 Keny. 397, 1 Black W. 105, 2 Burr. 661 Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329 Dodsley v. Kinnersley (1761) Amb. 403 Tonson v. Collins (1761) 1 Black W 301 Baskett v. Cunningham (1762) Tonson v. Collins (1762) 1 Black W 321, 1 Black W 329 Millar v. Donaldson (1765) Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303 Macklin v. Richardson (1770) Amb. 694 Sayer v. Dicey (1770), 3 Wils. 60 Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Thompson v. Stanhope (1774) Amb. 737 Stationers' Company v. Carnan (1775) 2 W. Bl. 1004 Bach v. Longman (1777) 2 Cowp. 623 Eyre v. Carnan (1781) 6 Bac Abr, 7th ed, 509 Bell v. Walker and Debrett (1785) 1 Bro.C.C. 451 Nicol v. Stockdale (1785) Sayre v. Moore (1785) 1 East 361 Carnan v. Bowles (1786) 1 Cox 283 Storace v. Longman (1788) 11 East's 244 Thompson v. Symonds (1792), 5 T.R. 41 Coleman v. Wathen (1793) 5 D. & E. 245 Grierson v. Jackson (1794) Ridg. L. & S. 304 Harrison v. Hogg (1794) 2 Ves. Jun. 323 Beckford v. Hood (1798) 7 D. & E. 620 Cary v. Faden, 5 Ves. 24 (1799) Butterworth v. Robinson (1801) Cary v. Longman (1801) 1 East 358 Fores v. Johnes (1802), 4 Esp. 97 Hime v. Dale (1803) 11 East 244 Hogg v. Kirby (1803) 8 Ves. Jun. 215 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge v. Richardson (1803) 6 Ves. 689 Walcot v. Walker (1803) 7 Ves. 1 Cary v. Kearsley (1804) 4 Esp. 168 Matthewson v. Stockdale (1806), 12 Ves. 270 Roworth v. Wilkes (1807) M. & R. 94 Clementi v. Goulding (1809) 11 East 244 Earl of Granard v. Dunkin (1809), 1 Ball & Beatty 207 Longman v. Winchester (1809), 16 Ves. 269 Crutwell v. Lye (1810) Du Bost v. Beresford (1810) 2 Camp. 511 Wilkins v. Aikin (1810) 17 Ves. Jun. 422 Denis v. LeClerc (1811) Perceval v. Phipps (1813), 2 Ves. & B. 21, 28 Leclerc v. Villeprend and Brunet (1812-14) Wyatt v. Barnard (1814) 3 Ves. & B. 78 Byron v. Johnston (1816) 2 Meriv., 29 Gale v. Leckie (1817), 2 Stark. 107 Southey v. Sherwood (1817) 2 Mer. 435 Whittingham v. Wooler (1817) 2 Swanst. 428 Gee v. Pritchard (1818), 2 Swans. 402 Latour v Bland (1818), 2 Stark 381 De Berenger v. Wheble (1819) 2 Stark 548 White v. Geroch (1819) 2 B. & Ald. 298 Morris v. Kelly (1820) 1 J. & W. 481 Binns v. Woodruff (1821) Rundell v. Murray (1821), Jac. 311 Lawrence v. Smith (1822) Jacob 471 Murray v. Benbow (1822) The Times 2 Feb. 1822 Murray v. Elliston (1822) 5 B. & Ald. 657, The Times, 4 May 1822 West v. Francis (1822) 5 B. & Ald. 743 Vesey v. Sweet (1823) The Times, 22 July 1823 Barfield v. Nicholson (1824), 2 Sim. & S. 1 Clementi v. Walker (1824) 2 B. & C. 861 Abernethy v. Hutchinson (1825) 1 H. & TW. 28 Mawman v. Tegg (1826), 2 Russ. 385 Stockdale v. Onwhyn (1826) 5 B&C 174 Manners v. Blair (1828) 3 Bligh N.S. 391 Clayton v. Stone, 5 F. Cases 999 (S.D.N.Y. 1829) Van Ness v. Packard, 2 Peter"s Reports (U. S.) 144 (1829) Sheriff v. Coates (1830), 1 Rus. & M. 159 Planché v. Colburn (1831), 5 C & P 58 Page v. Townsend (1832) 5 Sim. 395 Cumberland v. Planché (1834) 1 AD. & E. 580 Fradella v. Weller (1834), 2 R. & M. 247 Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591 Brooks v. Cock (1835), 3 Ad. & E. 141 D'Almaine v. Boosey (1835) 1 Y. & C. 288 Planché v. Braham (1837), 8 Car. & P. 68 Saunders v. Smith (1838) Bell v Whitehead (1839) Bentley v. Foster (1839) 10 Sim. 329 Brandreth v. Lance, 8 Paige Ch. 24 (NY. Ch. 1839) Gray v. Russell, 10 F.Cas. 1035 (C.C.D. Mass. 1839) Lewis v Fullarton (1839) Sweet v. Shaw (1839), 17 L.J. Ch. 216 Sweet v. Maugham (1840), 11 Sim. 51 Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass. Kelly v. Hooper (1841) Spottiswoode v. Clarke (1841) Sweet v. Cater (1841), 8 Jurist, Ch. 68 Campbell v. Scott (1842) 6 Jur. 186 Colburn v. Simms (1843) Chappell v. Purday (1845) 14 M. & W. 303 Emerson v. Davies (1845), 3 St. Rep. 780 Wright v. Tallis, 1 C.B. 893, 906-07 (1845) Pierpont v. Fowle, 19 F. Cas. 652 (C.C.D. Mass. 1846) Webb v. Powers, 29 F. Cas. 511 (C.C.D. Mass. 1847) Bell v. Locke (8 Paige, 75) Ewer v. Cox Gilliver v. Snaggs Grierson v. Eyre Gurney v. Longman Manley v. Owen Platt v. Button Cases referred to in commentary Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129 Wheaton v. Peters (1834) 33 U.S. 591 Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass. Emerson v. Davies (1845), 3 St. Rep. 780 Story v. Holcombe (1847), Cir. Ct. Ohio Institutions referred to Académie française Bodleian Library, Oxford British Museum Cambridge University Library Court of Cassation (Paris) Court of Chancery, England Court of Exchequer Court of King's Bench Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh House of Lords Lyon Correctional Tribunal Massachusetts District Court Parliament Patent Office, U.S. Department of State Sion College, London Smithsonian Institution Society of the King's Inns, Dublin Star Chamber Stationers' Company Stationers' Hall Trinity College, Dublin U.S. Congress U.S. Secretary of State's Office U.S. Supreme Court University of Cambridge University of Oxford Institutions referred to in commentary Harvard College Harvard Law School U.S. Supreme Court Key words abridgements authors' remuneration authorship, legal concept of common law copyright copying, concept of derivatives dramatic works, protected subject matter dramatico-musical works, protected subject matter engravings, protected subject matter fair use formalities idea/expression imitation invention letters maps, protected subject matter music, protected subject matter natural rights oral works, protected subject matter originality property analogies property theory property theory, authors' property public domain remedies scholarly writing translation, right of translations, protection of unpublished works Responsible editor Oren Bracha Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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