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Report of François Hell to the National Assembly, Paris (1791)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : LE29-1208

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Report of François Hell to the National Assembly, Paris (1791), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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caused to him, & in addition to this, to deposit into the
poor-box of the given district a monetary fine which must
not be less than the sum which the denounced party would
have been sentenced to pay if he had been found guilty.

XI.

      This decree will be printed in full at the end of every
work, thereby replacing the privilege of old.

      Your committees have, moreover, charged me with suggesting
to you two additional articles to cover property in dramatic works.
      The case envisaged by these articles is a sort of
counterfeiting by which some people in Paris are trying to sidestep
the law concerning this type of property.
      The reasonableness of the proposed draft will become clear.
      Iº. No one may arrange to have performed on a French stage
a play by a living French author, translated into a foreign language,
without the formal permission (given in writing) of the French author
in question, of his cessionary or heir, on pain of confiscation of
the profit from all ticket sales, & of a fine of one hundred livres to
the benefit of the parish poor for each such [unauthorised] performance.
      2º. Dramatic works which are set to music, being the property of
two authors, may not be used by anyone as the text for other music; nor
may their music be used with other libretti; nor may they be staged in
any theatre of the realm without the formal consent

    

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