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Wächter: 'Publishing Right', Stuttgart (1857)

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Wächter: 'Publishing Right', Stuttgart (1857), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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could infringe upon the author’s legal interests and should
therefore be subject to exclusive rights. A literary or
artistic work only falls within the competence of law when it
ceases to remain solely in the realm of ideal relations and
becomes an object of property whereby it acquires a cash value
in circulation or is suited to acquire such a value. It is
precisely in this sphere that property rights apply to the use
of an object. For it is in this use alone that an author’s
objective legal interest lies, thus making it into a matter for
legislation,* whereas the subjective intentions which the author
may harbour regarding his writer's or artist's honour and his
critical reception are irrelevant to the law. If exposition of
one’s personality


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* Report of the Saxon Chamber of Parliament, 18 March 1843;
Report of the Bavarian Chamber of Parliament, May 1840.


    

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