Home | Launch conference | Methodology | Editorial board | Acknowledgements | Contact








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:




The Question of Copyright, New York (1896)

Source:
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library K 1420.5 Q476 1896: George Haven Putnam, The Question of Copyright (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896).

Citation:
The Question of Copyright (1896), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

Record Images


Record-ID:
us_1896f

Full title
The Question of Copyright

Full title original language
N/A

Abstract
A collection of documents on international copyright compiled by the publisher George Haven Putnam. It includes the full text of the House of Representatives report of 1890 (us_1890), to which readers are referred for the corresponding lists of persons, legislation etc.

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.

Related documents in this database

Author
George Haven Putnam

Publisher
G.P. Putnam

Location
New York

Year
1896

Language
English

Source
The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library K 1420.5 Q476 1896: George Haven Putnam, The Question of Copyright (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896).

Physical description
N/A

Illustrations tables
N/A

Persons referred to
Adams, George Everett (1840-1917)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
Appleton, William Henry (1814-1899)
Arnell, Samuel Mayes (1833-1903)
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Arthur, Chester Alan (1829-1886)
Asher, Adolphus (1800-1853)
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Baird, Henry Carey (1825-1912)
Baldwin, John Denison (1809-1883)
Banning, Henry Blackstone (1836-1881)
Beck, James Burnie (1822-1890)
Besant, Sir Walter (1836-1901)
Black, Adam (1784-1874)
Bowker, Richard Rogers (1848-1933)
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston (1837-1904)
Briesen, Arthur von (1843-1920)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
Buchanan, James (1791-1868)
Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855-1896)
Butterworth, Benjamin (1837-1898)
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824)
Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681)
Carlisle, John Griffin (1834-1910)
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Chace, Jonathan (1829-1917)
Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth (1846-1918)
Cleveland, Stephen Grover (1837-1908)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1832)
Collier, Robert, 2nd Baron Monkswell (1845-1909)
Collins, Patrick Andrew (1844-1905)
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Colt, LeBaron Bradford (1846-1924)
Conway, Hugh (1847-1885)
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
Cox, Rowland (1842-1900)
Cox, Samuel Sullivan (1824-1889)
Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
Daniel, John Warwick (1842-1910)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897)
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
De Vinne, Theodore Low (1828-1914)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
Dorsheimer, William (1832-1888)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881)
Drummond, Henry (1851-1897)
Duff, James C. (1854-1928)
Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834-1896)
Edmunds, George Franklin (1828-1919)
Eggleston, Edward (1837-1902)
Elder, Samuel J. (fl.1887-1903)
Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)
Estes, Dana (1840-1909)
Evarts, William Maxwell (1818-1901)
Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
Ewing, Thomas (1789-1871)
Farrar, Rev. Frederic William (1831-1903)
Fitch, Ashbel Parmelee (1848-1904)
Foster, Roger (1857-1924)
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894)
Frye, William Pierce (1830-1911)
George, James Zachariah (1826-1897)
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836-1911)
Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774)
Gorman, Arthur Pue (1839-1906)
Gray, George (1840-1925)
Green, George Walton (fl.1882-1892)
Gurlitz, Augustus T. (fl.1883-1901)
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925)
Hale, Eugene (1836-1918)
Harris, Joel Chandler (1845-1908)
Harrison, Frederic (1831-1923)
Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
Hawley, Joseph Roswell (1826-1905)
Hawthorne, Julian (1846-1934)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Hiscock, Frank (1834-1914)
Hoar, George Frisbie (1826-1904)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894)
Holst, Hermann Eduard von (1841-1904)
Holt, Henry (1840-1926)
Homer (fl.700 B.C.-?)
Houghton, Henry Oscar (1823-1895)
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
Hubbard, Gardiner Greene (1822-1897)
Ingalls, John James (1833-1900)
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
Ivison, Henry (1808-1884)
James, Henry (1843-1916)
Jay, John (1817-1894)
Johnson, Robert Underwood (1853-1937)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Johnston, Alexander (1849-1889)
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
Kennedy, John L. (fl.1890)
Kératry, Emile, Comte de (1832-1904)
Kohler, Ignatius (1827-1901)
Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
Lathrop, George Parsons (1851-1898)
Lea, Henry Charles (1825-1909)
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781)
Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891)
Lévy, Michel (1821-1875)
Locke, John (1632-1704)
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford (1838-1915)
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Lubbock, Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859)
McCarthy, Justin (1830-1912)
McClurg, Alexander C. (1832-1901)
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)
Mackay-Smith, Alexander (1850-1911)
McMaster, John Bach (1852-1932)
Matthews, Brander (1852-1929)
Mathews, Cornelius (1817-1889)
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Mitchell, Donald Grant (1822-1908)
Molière (1622-1673)
Morley, Henry (1822-1894)
Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley (1838-1923)
Morrill, Justin Smith (1810-1898)
Morrill, Lot Myrick (1813-1883)
Morris, Edward Joy (1815-1881)
Morton, John Price (1807-1889)
Murfree, Mary Noailles (1850-1922)
Naujok, Gustav (b.1861)
Oates, William Calvin (1833-1910)
Page, Thomas Nelson (1853-1922)
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865)
Parton, James (1822-1891)
Pasco, Samuel (1834-1917)
Payson, Lewis Edwin (1840-1909)
Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
Platt, Orville Hitchcock (1827-1905)
Plumb, Preston B. (1837-1891)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Pollock, Sir Frederick (1845-1937)
Prime, Samuel Irenaeus (1812-1885)
Putnam, George Haven (1844-1930)
Putnam, George Palmer (1814-1872)
Rabelais, François (c.1494-c.1553)
Reagan, John Henninger (1818-1905)
Reed, Thomas Brackett (1839-1902)
Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)
Robinson, Lucius (1810-1891)
Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Scribner, Charles, II (1854-1930)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Sherman, John (1823-1900)
Shipman, Nathaniel (1828-1906)
Simonds, William Edgar (1842-1903)
Solberg, Thorvald (1852-1949)
Sophocles (c.496 B.C.-405 B.C.)
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand (1825-1908)
Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
Stewart, John Wolcott (1825-1915)
Stockton, Francis Richard (1834-1902)
Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903)
Stoddart, Joseph M. (fl.1879-1889)
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth, née Beecher (1811-1896)
Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw, 1st Baron St Leonards (1781-1875)
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842-1900)
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
Sylvester, James Joseph (1814-1897)
Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard (1816-1895)
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Thornton, Sir Edward (1817-1906)
Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910)
Townsend, William Kneeland (1849-1907)
Tracy, George Lowell (1855-1921)
Tucker, John Randolph (1823-1897)
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Vance, Zebulon Baird (1830-1894)
Van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933)
Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.)
Walker, Francis Amasa (1840-1897)
Walton, Izaac (1593-1683)
Watson, John (1850-1907)
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
Webster, Noah (1758-1843)
Wheeler, Everett P. (1840-1925)
Wilson, William Lyne (1843-1900)

Persons referred to in commentary
N/A

Places referred to
Africa
America
Belgium
Berlin
Boston, Massachusetts
Bristol
Brooklyn
Buffalo, New York
Canada
Chicago
Cincinnati
Colorado Springs
Denver
Edinburgh
England
Europe
France
Germany
Great Britain
Holland
Italy
Leipzig
Massachusetts
Melbourne
Minneapolis
New England
New York
Norway
Paris
Philadelphia
Prussia
Rome
Russia
St Louis, Missouri
Sheffield
Stuttgart
Vienna
Washington

Places referred to in commentary
N/A

Legislation referred to
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Ann. c. 19
French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810
Copyright Treaty between Prussia and Württemberg 1828
Prussian Copyright Act 1837
International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59
British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1853
Russian Council of State decree (1857), extending duration of p.m.a. term
French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866
British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1869
U.S. Copyright Act 1870, 16 Stat. 198
Copyright Acts for the German Empire 1876
British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1880
International Copyright Act, 1886, 49 & 50 Vict., c.33
Berne Convention 1886
Montevideo International Copyright Convention 1889
U.S. International Copyright Act, 1891 (Chace Act)
German-American Copyright Convention 1893

Legislation referred to in commentary
N/A

Cases referred to
Jeffreys v. Boosey (1854) 4 HLC 815
Black et al. v. Joseph M. Stoddart (C.C.D. Penn. 1879)
Carte v. Duff, (The Mikado case) 25 F. 183 (C.C.S.D.N.Y. 1885)
Black et al. v. Henry G. Allen Co. (C.C.D. NY 1889)
Black et al. v. Isaac K. Funk et al. (C.C.D. NY 1890)
Black et al. v. Samuel W. Ehrich et al. (C.C.D. NY 1890)
Harper v. Ranous (C.C.D. 1894)
Henry Drummond v. Altemus & Co. (C.C.D. Phila. 1894)
Littleton for Novello, Ewer & Co. of London v. Oliver Ditson of Boston (C.C.D. Mass. 1894)
Rider Haggard and Longmans, Green & Co. v. The Waverly Publishing Company (C.C.D. NJ 1894)
Werckmeister v. Pierce & Bushnell Mfg. Co., 63 F. 445 (C.C.D. Mass. 1894)

Cases referred to in commentary
N/A

Institutions referred to
A & C Black, Edinburgh, publishing house (est.1807)
American International Copyright Association (1868), New York
American Publishers' Copyright League
Appleton & Co., American publishing firm
Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI)
Berliner Photographische Gesellschaft, New York
Boston Copyright Association (f.1887)
Charles Scribner & Co., American publishing firm
Clarendon Press, Oxford
G. P. Putnam & Sons, American publishing firm (est.1866)
Harper & Brothers, American publishing firm (est.1833)
Harvard University
House of Lords
International Typographical Union (1852-1986)
J G Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart (f.1659)
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Circuit Court
Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig publishing house
Royal Commission on Copyright
Seaside Library, New York, publishers of cheap pirated reprint editions
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)
Stationers' Hall
U.S. Congress
U.S. Copyright Office
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
United Typothetae of America (UTA)
Yale University

Institutions referred to in commentary
N/A

Key words
Anglo-American
authorship, joint or collaborative
book market
book trade
free trade
incentives
international agreements, bilateral
international agreements, multilateral
lobbying
monopoly
moral rights
natural rights
new editions
oral works, protected subject matter
piracy
property theory, authors' property
reprints

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).




Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK