Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence, London (1878)

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1878: Royal Commissioners' Report
1879: Copyright Consolidation Bill
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Persons referred to:
Abernethy, John
Adam, Graeme Mercer
Addison, Joseph
Agasias, son of Dositheus
Alexandra, Queen
Alison, Sir Archibald
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence
Amos, Sheldon
Anthony, Henry Mark
Appleton, Charles Edward
Appleton, William Henry
Archer, James
Archibald, Sir Edward Mortimer
Armitage, Edward
Arnold, Matthew
Arthur, William
Asher, Adolphus
Austin, John
Badeau, Gen. Adam
Baily, Edward Hodges
Bain, Alexander
Baldwin, John Denison
Balfe, Michael William
Balzac, Honoré de
Bancroft, George
Barham, Richard Harris
Barry, Charles, Jr.
Bateman, Kate Josephine
Bates, Henry Walter
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Behnes, William
Bell, Jacob
Bellew, Harold Kyrle Money
Bellini, Vincenzo
Benedict, Sir Julius
Bennett, Rev. John William
Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish
Bentley, George
Bethell, Richard, 1st Baron Westbury
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley
Black, Adam
Black, William
Blackstone, William
Blackwood, Helen Selina, née Sheridan
Blackwood, John
Blaine, Delabere Roberton
Blanc, Etienne
Bodda, Frank
Bohn, Henry George
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano
Bonheur, Rosa
Bonner, John
Boosey, John
Boosey, Thomas
Boswell, James
Bosworth, Thomas
Boucicault, Dion
Bourke, Robert, Baron Connemara
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
Bradshaw, Henry
Bristed, Charles Astor
Brooks, Charles William Shirley
Broughton, Rhoda
Browne, Charles Farrar
Browning, Elizabeth, née Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bryant, William Cullen
Buckingham, James Silk
Buckle, Henry Thomas
Buckstone, John Baldwin
Bulwer, Henry Lytton
Bunn, Alfred
Bunyan, John
Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley
Burton, Sir Frederick William
Bush, Richard James
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale
Byron, Henry James
Cairns, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl
Calcraft, Sir Henry George
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Campbell, John, 1st Baron Campbell
Carey, Henry Charles
Carlyle, Thomas
Carpenter, W. H.
Carpenter, William Benjamin
Cassell, John
Cecil, Sir Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury
Chappell, Thomas Patey
Charles II
Charlesworth, Maria Louisa
Clark, Sir James
Clay, Henry
Clowes, William
Cobden, Richard
Cockburn, Alexander James Edmund
Cocker, Benjamin Franklin
Cockerell, Charles Robert
Cole, George Vicat
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collier, William Francis
Collins, Wilkie
Cooke, Josiah Parsons
Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt
Cooper, James Fenimore
Copinger, Walter Arthur
Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
Coppin, George Selth
Courtenay, William Reginald, 11th Earl of Devon
Cox, Samuel Sullivan
Coxe, Henry Octavius
Crampton, Sir John Fiennes Twistleton
Cromwell, Oliver
Cross, Richard Assheton, 1st Viscount Cross
Cummins, Maria Susanna
Curtis, George Ticknor
Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, baron
Daldy, Frederick Richard
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
Darwin, Charles Robert
Denman, Thomas
Derby, Edward Henry Smith Stanley, 15th Earl
Dicey, Edward
Dickens, Charles
Digby, Kenelm Henry
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Dixon, William Hepworth
Doré, Gustave
Draper, John William
Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni
Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson
Dubourg, Augustus William
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquis of
Dumas, Alexandre, fils
Dumas, Alexandre, père
Duncan, Edward
Dutton, Edward Payson
Eastlake, Sir Charles
Edward VII
Edwards, Mary Ellen
Elderkin, John
Eldon, John Scott, 1st Earl of
Eliot, George
Elliott, Joseph John
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Erle, William
Euclid
Evans, Sir Arthur John
Everett, Edward
Eyre, George Edward
Eyre, Sir James
Faed, Thomas
Faraday, Michael
Farrar, Rev. Frederic William
Farrer, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Farrer
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Field, Basil
Field, Edwin Wilkins
Fields, James Thomas
Fildes, Sir Luke
Fish, Hamilton
Fisher, Mark William
Flatow, Louis Victor
Fleming, Isaac Plant
Forshall, Josiah
Forster, John
Fortescue, Chichester Samuel, 1st Baron Carlingford
Foster, Myles Birkett
Foster, Peter Le Neve
Foster, Sir Michael
Fripp, George Arthur
Frith, William Powell
Froude, James Anthony
Fry, Clarence Edmund
Gaboriau, Émile
Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn, née Stevenson
Gavard, Charles
Geikie, Sir Archibald
George II
Gfrörer, August Friedrich
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, Thomas Milner
Gilbert, Sir John
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Gilbert, William
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glennie, Arthur
Goddard, John Leybourn
Goodall, Edward
Goodall, Frederick
Gore, Catherine Grace Frances, née Moody
Gould, John
Gounod, Charles François
Grant, Sir Francis
Graves, Boydell
Graves, Henry
Graves, Robert
Green, John Richard
Greenhill, Joseph
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke
Grote, George
Guest, Sir Josiah John
Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume
Haag, Carl
Hale, Charles
Hall, Edward
Hallam, Henry
Halliday, Andrew
Halévy, Ludovic
Handel, Georg Friederic
Hardenberg, Karl August, Fürst von
Hardwick, Philip
Harte, Bret
Hatton, John Liptrot
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayward, George
Heer, Oswald
Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
Herbert, John Rogers
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
Herschell, Farrer, 1st Baron Herschell
Hervey, John, 2nd Baron Hervey
Hincks, Sir Francis
Holl, Frank
Holland, Sir Henry Thurstan, 1st Viscount Knutsford
Hollingshead, John
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Houghton, Henry Oscar
Hudson, Frederic
Hughes, Thomas
Hugo, Victor
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of
Ingelow, Jean
Irving, Washington
James, William Milbourne
Jenkins, John Edward
Jenkins, Joseph John
Jenkyns, Sir Henry
Jesse, John Heneage
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, John Winter
Jowett, Benjamin
Kane, Elisha Kent
Kanitz, Felix Philipp
Karslake, Sir John Burgess
King, Henry Samuel
Kinglake, Alexander William
Kingsley, Charles
Kirk, John Foster
Knowles, James Sheridan
Korvin-Krukovskii, Petr Vasil'evich
Labouchere, Henry, 1st Baron Taunton
Lackington, James
Landseer, Sir Edwin
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
Lawrence, Sir William
Layard, Sir Austen Henry
Le Chapelier, Isaac René Guy
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Lecocq, Alexandre Charles
Leslie, George Dunlop
Letellier de Saint-Just, Luc
Lever, Charles James
Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Earl Granville
Lewis, John Frederick
Liddell, Henry George
Lingen, Ralph Robert Wheeler, Baron Lingen
Littleton, Henry
Livingstone, David
Lockhart, John Gibson
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longman, Thomas Norton
Longman, William
Lossing, Benson J.
Lovell, John
Lowell, James Russell
Loyd, Samuel Jones, 1st Baron Overstone
Lubbock, Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury
Lush, Sir Robert
Lyell, Sir Charles
Lyttelton, George William, 4th Baron Lyttelton
Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron
MacDonald, George
MacLaurin, John
MacMillan, Alexander
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Macfarren, Sir George Alexander
Macfie, Robert Andrew
Mackay, Charles
Macleod, Norman
Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner
Mallet, Sir Louis
Manners, Lord John James Robert
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl
Marey, Etienne Jules
Marks, Henry Stacey
Marryat, Florence
Marston, Edward
Marston, John Westland
Martin, Sir Theodore
Martineau, Harriet
Mary I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Massey, William Nathaniel
Masters, Joseph
Matthews, William
Maudsley, Henry
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Mavor, William Fordyce
McCulloch, John Ramsay
McMurchy, Archibald
Meilhac, Henri
Mellor, Sir John
Melvill, Henry
Menzies, William
Merivale, Charles
Michelangelo
Mill, John Stuart
Millais, Sir John Everett
Milman, Rev. Henry Hart
Milton, John
Mogford, John
Molesworth, William Nassau
Moore, Thomas
Morell, John Daniel
Morgan, James Appleton
Morrill, Lot Myrick
Morris, Rev. Richard
Morris, William
Morton, John Price
Motley, John Lothrop
Mudie, Charles Edward
Murray, John, II
Murray, John, III
Newman, John Henry
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nicol, Erskine
Nicolai, Otto
Novello, Joseph Vincent
Offenbach, Jacques
Oliphant, Margaret, née Wilson
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Osgood, James R.
Ouless, Walter William
Ouvry, Frederic
Oxenford, John
Palmer, Roundell, 1st Earl of Selborne
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
Panizzi, Sir Anthony
Parker, John Henry
Parker, Theodore
Parr, Louisa, née Taylor
Patti, Adelina
Peel, Sir Robert
Pettigrew, James Bell
Philip II
Phillips, Sir Thomas
Phillips, Watts
Pitt, William 'the Younger'
Plutarch
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poole, Paul Falconer
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Noah
Potts, Robert
Prescott, William Hickling
Priestley, Joseph
Prinsep, Valentine Cameron
Proudfoot, William
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph
Purday, Charles Henry
Putnam, George Haven
Putnam, George Palmer
Racine, Jean
Ranke, Leopold von
Reade, Charles
Reed, Thomas German
Reid, Alexander
Reid, G. W.
Renouard, Augustin-Charles
Reumont, Alfred von
Rivington, Charles Robert
Robertson, Frederick William
Robertson, George
Robertson, Thomas William
Robinson, Frederick William
Robinson, Henry Crabb
Rolfe, Robert Monsey, 1st Baron Cranworth
Rolt, Sir John
Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield
Rose, Sir John
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of
Routledge, George
Routledge, Robert Warne
Rubinstein, Anton
Ruskin, John
Rutland, John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of
Schmidt, Eduard Oscar
Schuyler, Eugene
Scott, Robert
Scott, Sir George Gilbert
Scott, Sir Walter
Seymour, Edward
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of
Shakespeare, William
Sherman, John
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Sidgwick, Henry
Simpson, John Palgrave
Smalley, George Washburn
Smiles, Samuel
Smith, Barnard
Smith, James Hamblin
Smith, Sir William
Smith, William Henry, Jr.
Solomon, Abraham
Somerville, Mary, née Fairfax
Southey, Robert
Spalding, William
Spencer, Herbert
Spottiswoode, William
Squier, Ephraim George
Stanfield, William Clarkson
Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
Stein, Heinrich Friedrich Carl, Baron vom
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames
Stephens, John Lloyd
Sterling, John
Stewart, Balfour
Stone, Marcus
Story, Joseph
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth, née Beecher
Street, George Edmund
Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw, 1st Baron St Leonards
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Taché, Joseph-Charles
Talfourd, Thomas Noon
Tate, George Price
Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard
Taylor, Frederick
Taylor, Tom
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thesiger, Frederick, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Thompson, Elizabeth Southerden
Thompson, Robert Ellis
Thomson, James
Thornton, Sir Edward
Ticknor, George
Ticknor, William Davis
Todhunter, Isaac
Toole, John Lawrence
Topham, Francis William
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward, 1st Baronet
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 2nd Baronet
Trollope, Anthony
Turner, Sharon Grote
Twain, Mark
Tyndall, John
Underdown, Emanuel Maguire
Victoria
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm
Wagner, Richard
Wall, Mr.
Wallace, Alfred Russell
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace, William Vincent
Walpole, Spencer Horatio
Washington, George
Watson, Musgrave Lewthwaite
Watts, Thomas
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wells, Henry Tanworth
White, Richard Grant
Whitney, William Dwight
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wilson, Alexander
Wodehouse, John, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond
Wood, Mrs Henry, née Ellen Price
Wood, Rev. John George
Wood, William Page, 1st Baron Hatherley
Woolner, Thomas
Wordsworth, William
Youmans, Edward Livingston
Young, Sir Charles Lawrence

Places referred to:
Africa
Agra
Albany
Allahabad
America
Australia
Austria
Barbados
Bavaria
Belgium
Bengal
Berlin
Birmingham
Blackburn
Bombay
Bordeaux
Boston
Bradford
Braintree (Essex)
Braunschweig
British North America
Burma
Calcutta
California
Cambridge
Canada
Canterbury
Cape of Good Hope
Channel Islands
China
Clerkenwell
Coggeshall (Essex)
Copenhagen
Delhi
Denmark
Detroit
Dublin
Edinburgh
Egypt
England
Europe
Florence
France
Germany
Glasgow
Great Britain
Grimsby
Hamburg
Hanover
India
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Lahore
Leipzig
London
Louisville (KY)
Madras
Manchester
Markshall (Essex)
Massachusetts
Melbourne
Melton (Leicestershire)
Middlesex
Montreal
Netherlands
New England
New South Wales
New York
New Zealand
Newcastle
Oldenburg
Ottawa
Oxford
Paris
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Portland (Ontario)
Portugal
Rome
Rouses Point (New York)
Russia
Sardinia
Saxony
Scotland
Southwark
Spain
St Petersburg
Sunderland
Switzerland
Thuringia
Toronto
Turkey
Tynemouth
Victoria (Australia)
Wales
Washington
West Indies
Worcester (MA)
Yorkshire

Cases referred to:
Abernethy v. Hutchinson (1825) 1 H. & TW. 28
Boucicault v. Delafield (1863) 1 Hem. & M. 597, 71 Eng. Rep. R. 261
Byron v. Johnston (1816) 2 Meriv., 29
Cary v. Kearsley (1804) 4 Esp. 168
Clark v. Freeman (1848) 11 Beav 112
Cocks v. Purday (1846) 2 Car. & K. 269
Coleman v. Wathen (1793) 5 D. & E. 245
Cox v. Land and Water Journal Company (1869) LR 9 Eq. 324
D'Almaine v. Boosey (1835) 1 Y. & C. 288
Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129
Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329
Folsom v. Marsh (1841), Cir. Ct. Mass.
Graves v. Walker (1869)
Jeffreys v. Boosey (1854) 4 HLC 815
Lacy v. Rhys (1864)
Low v. Routledge (1865-1868)
Mayall v. Higbey (1862)
Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303
Murray v. Elliston (1822) 5 B. & Ald. 657, The Times, 4 May 1822
Palmer v. De Witt (1872) 47 N. Y. 532-536
Prince Albert v. Strange (1849), 1 Hall & T., 18 L.J. Ch. 120
Reade v. Conquest (1861) 9 CB (NS) 755
Russell v. Smith (1848) 12 Q.B. 217
Sweet v. Benning (1855) 16 C.B. 459
Toole v. Young (1874) 9 LR 523, 527
Wood v. Boosey (1868)
Wood v. Chart (1870) 10 Eq. 193

Institutions referred to:
Académie française
American International Copyright Association (1868), New York
Appleton & Co., American publishing firm
Athenaeum Club, London
Belford Bros., Toronto (publishing firm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bickers & Bush, London (bookselling firm)
Board of Trade
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Books Commission (Leipzig)
British Museum
British and Foreign Bible Society
Bureau de la Librairie
Cambridge University Library
Canadian House of Commons
Canadian Senate
Canterbury Music Hall, London
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., publishing house
Cawthorn's Circulating Library, London
Chapman & Hall (publishing house)
Chappell & Co., music publishers
Charles Scribner & Co., American publishing firm
Christie's, auction house
Colonial Office, London
Comité de Constitution (National Assembly)
Copyright Association of the United States
Court of Queen's Bench
Court of Sessions, Scotland
Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate
Crystal Palace, London
Dawson Bros., Montreal, publishing firm
Designs Office, Board of Trade
Dramatic Authors'
Dudley Gallery, London
East India Company
Elliott & Fry, London, photographic studio (est.1863)
Eton College
Exeter Hall, London
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
French Ministry of the Interior
G. P. Putnam & Sons, American publishing firm (est.1866)
German Reed Entertainment, London
Globe Theatre, London
Goldsmiths' Company, London
Guildhall, London
H S King & Co., London (publishing firm)
HM Treasury
Harper & Brothers, American publishing firm (est.1833)
House of Commons
House of Lords
Hurd & Houghton, New York (publishing firm)
International Exhibition 1862
James Campbell & Son, Toronto (publishing firm)
Joint Committee on the Library (U.S. Congress)
King's College London
Langham Chambers Artists' Society
Library of Congress
Lincoln's Inn
London Library, The (f.1841 by Thomas Carlyle)
Mansion House
Mercantile Library Association, New York
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
New Water-Colour Society
Novello & Co., music publishers
Patent Office, Board of Trade
Privy Council
Robert Carter & Bros., American publishing firm
Royal Academy
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Commission on Copyright
Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
Scottish National Gallery
Société des Auteurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors, f.1777, now SACD)
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)
Somerset House
St James Concert Hall
Stationers' Company
Stationers' Hall
Surrey Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Theatre Royal, Liverpool
Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishing firm (est.1798)
Ticknor and Fields, publishing firm, Boston (MA)
Trinity College, Dublin
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
University and King's College of Aberdeen
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Oxford
University of St Andrews
WH Smith plc
Westminster School
William Clowes Ltd., printing firm (est.1803)
Willis & Sotheran, London, bookselling firm
Winchester College

Legislation:
Anglo-Belgian Copyright Treaty 1854
Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851
Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1846
Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1856
Anglo-Sardinian Copyright Treaty 1860
Anglo-Saxonian Copyright Treaty 1846
Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty 1857
Belgian copyright legislation
British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1853
British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1869
Canadian Copyright Act, 1868, 31 Vict., c.54
Canadian Copyright Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.53
Code Pénal 1810
Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804
Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870
Copyright Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53
Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45
Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hamburg 1853
Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hanover 1847
Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.59
Copyright of Designs Act, 1850, 13 & 14 Vict., c.104
Directive of reciprocal protection within the German Confederation (1837)
Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15
Dutch Law of 25 January 1817, relating to literary and artistic property
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1777, 17 Geo.III, c.57
Fine Art Copyright Act, 1862, 25 & 26 Vict., c.68
Foreign Reprints Act, 1847, 10 & 11 Vict., c.95
Franco-Bavarian Copyright Treaty 1865
Franco-Belgian Copyright Convention 1861
French International Copyright Act 1852
French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1866
French law of 13 January 1791, concerning the works of living playwrights
Friendly Societies Act 1875
Indian Act 1847 (Act XX: 'An act for the encouragement of learning in the territories subject to the government of the East India Company')
International Copyright Act, 1844, 7 & 8 Vict., c.12
International Copyright Act, 1852, 15 & 16 Vict., c.12
International Copyright Act, 1875, 38 Vict., c.12
Italian Copyright Act 1865
Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33
Naturalization Act, 1870, 33 Vict., c. 14
Portuguese Copyright Act (18 July 1851)
Publication of Lectures Act, 1835, 5 & 6 Will.IV, c.65
Russian Council of State decree (1857), extending duration of p.m.a. term
Russian law, stipulating that photographs had to show the publisher's name
Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.56
Small Penalties Act, 1868, 32 Vict., c. 25
Spanish Copyright Act (10 June 1847)
Stamp Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict., c. 97
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3
Trade Marks Registration Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.91
Trades Union Act, 1871, 34 & 35 Vict., c.31
U.S. Copyright Act 1870, 16 Stat. 198

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newspapers
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paintings, protected subject matter
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photography, protected subject matter
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