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Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy, Leipzig (1830)

Source: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig

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Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy, Leipzig (1830), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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a register of the copies sent by the original publishers of works
which are their lawful copyright, keep them in an archive, and
draw up a list of these works every month which he will send out
to all members of the Union so that each member can find out
what new works there are. After a year has passed, the copies are
to be sent back to the original publishers.

§ 9.

      Falsification of the title, publisher’s and composer’s name
is forbidden on pain of a fine of 50 louis-d’or which is to be paid
into the Union's treasury, and to the fulfilment of which the
undersigned are mutually bound. Those who, from now on, sell works
without indicating the title or the publisher’s name, must pay into
the Union's treasury a fine equal to twenty-five times the retail
price of each copy sold.

§ 10.

      Since the undersigned are unanimous in fully accepting this
mutually binding contract’s legal force on all the above points, and
in recognizing the Secretary of the Union as the person who
is authorized, in cases of infringement, to call them to account,
without any interference from individual members, they also agree
to abstain from making any excuses or objections against this - in
particular, [such notions as] free market, limitation, and anything
else that might be invented - and to this effect they have put their
own hand and seal to this agreement.

            Done at Leipzig, 12th May 1830


      Friedrich Hofmeister
      On behalf of Breitkopf & Härtel:       F. Härtel
      Wilhelm Härtel
      On behalf of Joh. André:      Anton André
      C.F. Peters of Leipzig
      H.A. Probst from Offenbach
      H. Simrock from Bonn
      C.F Hartmann from Wolfenbüttel
      C.C. Lose
      on behalf of N. Simrock: Fels
      G.M. Meyer from Braunschweig
      Schuberth & Niemeyer
      Cosmar & Krause from Berlin
      Fr. Laue from Berlin
      Fr. Ph. Dunst from Frankfurt on Main
      on behalf of Joh. Peter Spehr from Braunschweig (Gustav Spehr)
      Sons of B. Schott of Mainz

            Original signatures

    


eingesandten Exemplare ihres rechtmässigen Verlagseigenthums ein Register führen,
und im Archive bewahren, alle Monate eine Liste fertigen und an sämmtliche Vereins-
mitglieder versenden, sodaß jedes Mitglied Kentniß von den Novitäten erhält. Nach
Verlauf eines Jahres sollen die Exemplar zurückgegeben werden.

§ 9.

      Die Verfälschung des Titels, der Firma und des Namens des Componisten ist bei
einer Strafe von 50 Stück Louisd’or, die an die Vereinskasse nach Wechselrecht zu
bezahlen ist, verboten, und wer Werke ohne Titel und ohne Firma von jetzt an
debitirt, soll in eine Strafe, die dem fünf und zwanzigfachen Betrag des Ladenpreises
für jedes Exemplar gleichkommt, an den Verein nach Wechselrecht verfallen seyn.

§ 10.

      Da nun die Unterzeichneten hierüber völlig einig sind, dem gegenseitig
geschlossenen Contract über alle obigen Punkte die vollkommenste rechtliche Wirk-
samkeit zugestehen und den Secretair des Vereins als diejenige Person anerkennen,
von der sie in Übertretungsfällen, ohne weitere Einmischung der einzelnen Mit-
glieder, zur Verantwortung und Conventionalstrafe gezogen werden können, so
entsagen sie auch allen dagegen zu machenden Ausflüchten, vorzüglich der Mess-
und Marktfreiheit, der Wechselverjährung und wie sie sonst erdacht werden
möchten, und haben sich auch eigenhändig unterschrieben.

            So geschehen Leipzig, den 12. Mai 1830
                                                      Friedrich Hofmeister
                                                                  Wilhelm Härtel
                                                            per procura Breitkopf & Härtel,
                                                                        F. Härtel
      per procura Joh. André
            Anton André                                          C.F. Peters in Leipzig
      aus Offenbach                                                H.A. Probst
      C.H. Hartmann                                                      C.C. Lose
      aus Wolfenbüttel                                                G.M. Meyer
      pr. N. Simrock,                                                      aus Braunschweig
            Fels

      Schuberth & Niemeyer                              Cosmar & Krause
                                                                                                            aus Berlin
      Fr. Laue aus Berlin                                          per procura Joh. Pet. Spehr aus
                                                                                                                  Braunschweig
                                                                                                                  (Gustav Spehr)
                        B. Schott Söhne aus
                                    Mainz
                              Originalunterschrift

    

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