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Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia, Vienna (1840)

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Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia, Vienna (1840), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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His Majesty the Emperor of Austria
and His Majesty the King of Sardinia,
both inspired by the same wish to foster
and protect the sciences and the arts
and, not least, to encourage useful
enterprises, have decided in mutual
agreement to guarantee writers and
artists the lifetime right of ownership
to those works of theirs which appear
in either or both of these States, and to
establish the period during which their
heirs are to enjoy this protection, by
determining for this purpose the most
effective means of preventing reprinting
and any other kind of mechanical
reproduction.
      Accordingly, Their Majesties have
appointed their plenipotentiaries as follows:
      His Majesty the Emperor of Austria
has named His Highness Prince Clemens Wenzel
Lothar of Metternich-Winneburg, Duke of
Portella, Count of Königswarth, Grandee
of Spain of the first rank, Knight of the Golden
Fleece, Bearer of the Grand-Cross of the St
Stephan Order of the Kingdom of Hungary and the
Distinction for Civil Service, Knight of the high
Order of the Annunciation etc., Chamberlain, Privy

    

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