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Committee on the Library Report, Washington D.C. (1873)

Source:
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: 42nd Cong., 3rd Sess., 1873, S. 400.

Citation:
Committee on the Library Report (1873), 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
Report from the Committee on the Library

Full title original language
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Abstract
A Report of the Joint Committee on the Library on the subject of international copyright protection. The report recommended against creating international copyright protection. The report was part of the struggle for introducing international copyright protection to the United States that was renewed after the Civil War.

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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Publisher
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Location
Washington D.C.

Year
1873

Language
English

Source
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: 42nd Cong., 3rd Sess., 1873, S. 400.

Physical description
microfiche

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Persons referred to
Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan (1830-1890)
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873)
Alison, Sir Archibald (1792-1867)
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune (1818-1865)
Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834-1924)
Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
Barrow, Sir John (1764-1848)
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
Blatchford, Samuel (1820-1893)
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915)
Browning, Elizabeth, née Barrett (1806-1861)
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)
Bush, Richard James (1843-1914)
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Conybeare, William John (1815-1857)
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
Cox, Samuel Sullivan (1824-1889)
Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
Daniell, Edmund Robert (d.1854)
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911)
Dixon, William Hepworth (1821-1879)
Draper, John William (1811-1882)
Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni (1831-1903)
Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Forster, John (1812-1876)
Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894)
Greenwood, Grace (1823-1904)
Grote, George (1794-1871)
Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume (1787-1874)
Hallam, Henry (1777-1859)
Haweis, Hugh Reginald (1838-1901)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Hayes, Isaac Israel (1832-1881)
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, née Browne (1793-1835)
Hildreth, Richard (1807-1865)
Hodge, Charles (1797-1878)
Holland, Sir Henry (1788-1873)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894)
Howson, John Saul (1816-1885)
Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
Jarves, James Jackson (1818-1888)
Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893)
Kinglake, Alexander William (1809-1891)
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
Kirk, John Foster (1824-1904)
Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894)
Lever, Charles James (1806-1872)
Lockhart, Laurence William Maxwell (1831-1882)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron (1803-1873)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859)
MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
MacGregor, John (1825-1892)
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley (1838-1923)
Morrill, Lot Myrick (1813-1883)
Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877)
Müller, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)
Oliphant, Laurence (1829-1888)
Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882)
Parton, James (1822-1891)
Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859)
Pressensé, Edmond Dehaut de (1824-1891)
Reade, Charles (1814-1884)
Reclus, Jean Jacques Élisée (1830-1905)
Robertson, Frederick William (1816-1853)
Robinson, Edward (1794-1863)
Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867)
Russell, Sir William Howard (1821-1907)
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789-1867)
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley (1791-1865)
Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864)
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903)
Squier, Ephraim George (1821-1888)
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (1815-1881)
Stephens, John Lloyd (1805-1852)
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth, née Beecher (1811-1896)
Taylor, James Bayard (1825-1878)
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Thomson, William McClure (1806-1894)
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
Tyndall, John (1820-1893)
Upham, Thomas Cogswell (1799-1872)
Vambery, Arminius (1832-1913)
Wallace, Alfred Russell (1823-1913)
Wallace, John William (1815-1884)
Warren, Samuel (1807-1877)
White, Henry (1812-1880)
Whymper, Edward (1840-1911)
Wood, Rev. John George (1827-1889)

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Places referred to
America
England
Europe
Great Britain

Places referred to in commentary
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Legislation referred to
U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789

Legislation referred to in commentary
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Institutions referred to
Constitutional Convention (1787)
Joint Committee on the Library (U.S. Congress)
U.S. Congress

Institutions referred to in commentary
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Key words
Anglo-American
authorship, romantic concept of
book market
book trade
constitution, US
foreign reprints
interest groups
learning, the advancement of
moral obligations
property theory, authors' property

Responsible editor
Oren Bracha




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