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Simon Marion's plea on privileges (1586)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22071 n°28

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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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and to charge scholars more, which would
certainly happen, since affluence is known
to be the mother of baseness, and costliness
the daughter of monopoly. Such that the
defendant, who is in so many ways ungrateful
and unworthy of the grace accorded to Book-
sellers, might legitimately be deprived of it
entirely; it is even possible that the just
strictness of such a useful example would
permanently deter both him and others from
comparable undertakings. Nevertheless, so that
it cannot be said that we have closed to him
the avenue he wished to close to us, in order
to tread it ourselves alone, and thus to turn
his punishment for his wrongdoing to our own
advantage, we shall settle for a judgement to
this effect: That the printing of this book
will remain free, regardless of letters patent
to the contrary; the effect of which will be
held as null.

So ordered by the Court, by its
ruling of 15 March 1586.

    

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