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Schäffle: 'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities', Tübingen (1867)

Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt

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Schäffle: 'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities', Tübingen (1867), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities,' chapter in Albert Schäffle, 'The political economic theory of exclusive markets including copyrights, patents and trademarks'

Full title original language:
'Das Autorrecht als künstliche Sicherung der Lohn- und der Lohnrentenfunction', in: 'Die nationalökonomische Theorie der ausschliessenden Absazverhältnisse: insbesondere des litterarisch-artistischen Urheberrechtes, des Patent-, Muster- Firmenschuzes'

Abstract:
Albert Schäffle (1831-1903) was a professor of economics at the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and for some months in 1871 served as the Austrian Minister of Commerce. As an economist the aim of his work on copyright is to find an appropriate term of protection rather than to justify authors' rights as such or to define the position of these rights within the system of private law. According to Schäffle, the exclusive rights of authors and publishers could be justified from an economic point of view only, because a work is available everywhere at the same time, thus enabling others to market the same product produced at a lower cost. Exclusive rights, on the other hand, are rejected by Schäffle in those cases where an 'identical product of the same quality cannot be produced at lower costs'. Schäffle's economic view on copyright was new and unique, but had nearly no bearing at all on subsequent copyright discourse in Germany.

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Bibliography:
  • Götz von Olenhusen, Albrecht. "'Ewiges geistiges Eigentum' und 'Sozialbindung' des Urheberrechts in der Rechtsentwicklung und Diskussion im 19. Jahrhundert in Frankreich und Deutschland." In Festschrift für Georg Roeber zum 10. Dezember 1981, 83-111. Edited by Wilhelm Herschel, Heinrich Hubmann and Manfred Rehbinder. Freiburg: Hochschulverlag, 1982.

  • Prosi, Gerhard. Ökonomische Theorie des Buches. Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann, 1971.


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Author: Albert Schäffle (1831-1903)

Publisher: Laupp

Year: 1867

Location: Tübingen

Language: German

Source: Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt

Persons referred to:
Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich

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Keywords:
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property theory, authors' property
property theory, publishers' property

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