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Prussian Statute Book (ALR), Berlin (1794)

Source: Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart A18/725-2,2

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Prussian Statute Book (ALR), Berlin (1794), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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1360. Part Two. Twentieth Title.


take over the reprint copies must take into account
the expenses made by the reprinter in producing these
and offer this sum as compensation to the latter, or
if such compensation is not appropriate,* the legitimate
publisher must pay this sum into the penalty box.**
      §. 1297. a) Insofar as reprinting as such is forbidden,
no one may, on pain of the same penalty, carry on trade
with books reprinted abroad.
      §. 1297. b) Bookbinders are forbidden from venturing
to trade in unbound works and in merely stitched books, on
pain of confiscation of the work and the proceeds from any
such copies already sold.
      §. 1297. c) An author can certainly sell works that he
has published on his own account, either by acting himself
as the vendor or through the agency of others; but such sales
must not take place in shops open to the public, nor in places
where publishers are operating, nor may they be carried out
by bookbinders on the author's behalf.
      §. 1297. d) Infringements of this regulation are likewise
to be punished with the penalty of confiscation in accordance
with §. 1297. b).

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*) i.e. because the sum would exceed the penalty which the
reprinter was liable to pay to the fiscal authorities.

**) i.e. the penalty-box of the adjudicating court.

    



1360. Zweyter Theil. Zwanzigster Titel.


Nachdruck übernehmen will, die von dem Nach-
drucker darauf verwendeten Auslagen demselben
auf die zu leistende Entschädigung anrechnen, oder
so weit sie dazu nicht erforderlich sind, an die Straf-
casse herausgeben.
      §. 1297 a) So weit der Nachdruck selbst ver-
boten ist, darf auch niemand, bey gleicher Strafe,
mit auswärts nachgedruckten Büchern Handel
treiben.
      §. 1297 b) Buchbinder dürfen des Handels mit
ungebundenen Büchern, und bloß gehefteten
Schriften, bey Strafe der Confiscation des Werks,
und des für schon verkaufte Exemplare gelöseten
Werths, sich nicht anmaßen.
      §. 1297 c) Ein Verfasser kann seine für eigne
Rechnung gedruckten Schriften zwar durch sich
selbst, oder auch durch Andere verkaufen; es darf
aber dergleichen Verkauf nicht in einem öffentli-
chen Laden, und an Orten, wo Buchhändler sind,
nicht durch Buchbinder geschehen.
      §. 1297 d) Uebertretungen dieser Vorschrift
werden ebenfalls mit der Strafe der Confiscation
nach §. 1297 b) geahndet.

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