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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:  | | Copyright Act Amendment, Washington D.C. (1856) Source: Library of Congress: 11 Stat. 138 Citation: Copyright Act Amendment (1856), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: us_1856 Full title An Act supplemental to an Act entitled An Act to amend the several acts respecting Copyright, approved February third, eighteen hundred and thirty - one Full title original language N/A Abstract An amendment to the Copyright Act that added for the first time in America a public performance entitlement in dramatic works. The commentary describes the origins of the agitation by playwrights for an exclusive public performance right in plays, the early lobbying efforts, and the campaign that led to the 1856 amendment. It concludes by briefly discussing how the new entitlement contributed to the general shift of copyright's intellectual framework from a limited textual reprint right to a general protection of an intellectual work. Bibliography Bradley, Edward Sculley. George Henry Boker, Poet and Patriot. London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Foust, Clement E. The Life and Dramatic Works of Robert Montgomery Bird. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1919. McConachie, Bruce A. Melodramatic Formations: American Theater and Society, 1820-1870. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Washington D.C. Year 1856 Language English Source Library of Congress: 11 Stat. 138 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A Persons referred to in commentary Bayard, James Asheton, Jr. (1799-1880) Bird, Robert Montgomery (1805-1854) Blatchford, Samuel (1820-1893) Boker, George Henry (1823-1890) Boucicault, Dion (1820-1890) Chanfrau, Frank S. (1824-1884) Daly, Augustine (1838-1899) Dunlap, William (1766-1839) Forrest, Edwin (1806-1872) Ingersoll, Charles Jared (1782-1862) Palmer, Henry David (d.1879) Payne, John Howard (1791-1852) Sedgwick, Arthur George (1844-1915) Seward, William Henry (1801-1872) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Webster, Noah (1758-1843) Wilkins, Edward G. P. (1829-1861) Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary Boston, Massachusetts England France Great Britain London New York Paris Philadelphia Washington Legislation referred to U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1856, 11 Stat. 138 Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15 U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1856, 11 Stat. 138 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Morris v. Kelly (1820) 1 J. & W. 481 Daly v. Palmer, 6 F. Cas. 1132 (C.C.S.D.N.Y. 1868) Institutions referred to U.S. Congress U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Institutions referred to in commentary Dramatic Authors' Society Dramatists' Guild of America (est.1912) Société des Auteurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors, f.1777, now SACD) U.S. Congress U.S. Senate Key words dramatic works, protected subject matter penalties, paid to author(s) public performance 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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