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Simon Marion's plea on privileges (1586)
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22071 n°28
Citation:
Simon Marion's plea on privileges (1586), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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the seat of the heads of the Church, and of
the spiritual Empire of souls, Muret found
humanitarian Fathers there, true Pastors of
the Christian people, who received him graciously
and honoured him until his peaceful, natural
death. Since his death, his friends in Rome have
had printed the edition of Seneca which he
annotated, without obtaining the privilege from
the King. This rendered it entirely public, and
free to print in this Kingdom, where it can no
longer be subject to the privilege : given that
the state of a book is to be measured according
to its condition at the moment it leaves the
private hands of its possessor, and by his
beneficence enters the sphere of the common
knowledge of men: such that, if at its origin it
was restricted by a law of privilege, it must
remain so; but if it is free of privilege, that
freedom may not be curtailed. This is because,
by a common instinct, each man recognises every
other to be the master of what he makes, invents,
or creates, and even speaking in human terms of
the greatness of God, and of His power over the
things He made, they say that the Heavens and the
Earth belong to Him, since they were created by
His word, and that the day and the night are His,
since
No Transcription available.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22071 n°28
Citation:
Simon Marion's plea on privileges (1586), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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the seat of the heads of the Church, and of
the spiritual Empire of souls, Muret found
humanitarian Fathers there, true Pastors of
the Christian people, who received him graciously
and honoured him until his peaceful, natural
death. Since his death, his friends in Rome have
had printed the edition of Seneca which he
annotated, without obtaining the privilege from
the King. This rendered it entirely public, and
free to print in this Kingdom, where it can no
longer be subject to the privilege : given that
the state of a book is to be measured according
to its condition at the moment it leaves the
private hands of its possessor, and by his
beneficence enters the sphere of the common
knowledge of men: such that, if at its origin it
was restricted by a law of privilege, it must
remain so; but if it is free of privilege, that
freedom may not be curtailed. This is because,
by a common instinct, each man recognises every
other to be the master of what he makes, invents,
or creates, and even speaking in human terms of
the greatness of God, and of His power over the
things He made, they say that the Heavens and the
Earth belong to Him, since they were created by
His word, and that the day and the night are His,
since
No Transcription available.