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French International Copyright Act, Paris (1852)

Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD) : Bulletin des Lois de la République française, Xe série, tome neuvième, n° 510

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French International Copyright Act, Paris (1852), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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I will have the honour of submitting to you the decree enclosed, which
will have the effect of realising them.
      I am with the most profound respect,
                                          Monseigneur,
                        Your very humble and very devoted servant,

The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of State in the department of Justice,

                                                Signed: Abbatucci

Decree

LOUIS-NAPOLÉON, President of the French Republic,

      On the report of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary
of State in the Department of Justice:
      In view of the Act of 19 July 1793, the decrees of 1st Germinal
year XIII and of 5 February 1810, the Act of 25 Prairial year III,
and articles 425, 426, 427 and 429 of the Criminal Code:

Decrees:

      1st Article: Counterfeiting, on French territory, of works
published abroad and mentioned in article 425 of the Criminal Code,
constitutes an offence.
      2. The same is true of the sale, the exportation and the
expedition of counterfeit works. The exportation and the expedition
of these works is an offence of the same kind as the introduction,
on French territory, of works which, after having been printed in
France, have been counterfeited abroad.
      3. The offences envisaged by the preceding articles will be
repressed according to articles 427 and 429 of the Criminal Code.
      Article 463 of the same Code can be applied.
      4. Nevertheless, the prosecution will be admitted only under
the fulfilment of the conditions required of works published in
France, notably by article 6 of the Act of 19 July 1793.
      5. The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of State in
the department of Justice, is charged with the execution of the
present decree.
      Drafted in the Tuileries palace, the 28th of March 1852.
                                                Signed Louis-Napoléon

            The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of State in the
                                                            Department of Justice
                                                                  Signed: Abbatucci



    

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