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Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books', Leipzig and Halle (1740)

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen 34 A 398 [Reprint Edition of 1995]

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Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books', Leipzig and Halle (1740), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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latanry of the book-trade, 2) Letter of a European book
publisher to a German colleague (Hamburg, 1732); and
also in the Honest and reasonable memorandum of an
unbiased [jurist ?] on the infamous reprinting of books
belonging to others (Halle, 1726); and no less so in the Jena
law faculty's Responso Juris, together with the approval of
three law faculties (those of Giessen, Helmstadt, and
Erfurt), in which it is shown that the authors of published
books and their concessionaires who have not applied for
privileges to them from the supreme authorities, are not
entitled to a monopoly over the sale of such books, and
have no right before the temporal courts to forbid others
from reprinting such books or bring a lawsuit against them
(Erfurt, 1726); and, finally, in An honest patriot's unbiased
thoughts on some of the causes and effects of the abasement
of the contemporary book-trade, wherein the fraud of book
subscriptions, in particular, is revealed and it is also
demonstrated that the unauthorised reprinting of
unprivileged books is a theft which runs contrary to all laws
(Schweinfurt, 1733).



    

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