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Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges, The Hague (1715)

Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW 402 A 102

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Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges, The Hague (1715), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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1715
28 June

[IN THE MARGIN: sent of the first Printer.]

state, except with the consent of the first Printer.

[IN THE MARGIN: No Patents to be granted on School and Church Books and old Auctores Classici, except on new Notes or Indexes.]

And regarding School and Church Books, as well as old Auctores Classici, no further patents may be petitioned, except on the Annotations, Commentaries, Indexes etc. which will be newly added.

[IN THE MARGIN: All this on punishment of nullification.]

All this on punishment of nullification and voiding of the petitioned and obtained Patents.

[IN THE MARGIN: This Resolution to be attached to Patents.]

And from now on a Copy of this Resolution will be attached to all the aforementioned to be approved Patents, so that its assigns could not pretent ignorance thereof.

[IN THE MARGIN: The punishments against the pirating of patented Books to be raised from three hundred guilders to three thousand guilders.]

And finally, that the penalties against those who copy any Book, for which Patent has been obtained, in whole or in part, or to import, publish, or sell those copied elsewhere, in these Provinces, in the Letters Patent custumarily set at three hundred guilders, will from now on be increased and set to three thousand guilders, and that as many times as it will be identified, and that the Letters Patent will be expanded with that.

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1715
28 Juny

[IN DE KANTLIJN: sent van den eersten Drukker.]

Staat reets zyn gedrukt, ten zy met consent van de eerste Drukkers.

[IN DE KANTLIJN: Geen Octroyen te verleenen op School- of Kerkboeken en oude Auctores Classici als met nieuwe Noten of Indices.]

En ten opsigte van School- of Kerkboeken, mitsgaders oude Auctores Classici, geen verdere Octroyen sullen moogen werden versogt, als op de Annotatien, Commentarien, Indices, &c. die op nieuws daar by gevoegt sullen werden.

[IN DE KANTLIJN: Alles op poene van nulliteit.]

Alles op poene van nulliteit, en onwaarde van de versogte en geobtineerde Octroyen.

[IN DE KANTLIJN: Deese Resolutie aan de Octroyen te attacheeren.]

En sal aan alle van de voorschreeve hier na te accordeeren Octroyen van deese Resolutie Copie worden geattacheert, ten einde dat de Impetranten van dien daar van geen ignorantie konnen pretendeeren.

[IN DE KANTLIJN: De poenaliteiten teegen het drukken van geoctroyeerde Boeken van drie honderd guldens te verhoogen tot drie duisend guldens.]

En eindelyk, dat de poenaliteiten teegens die geenen, die eenig Boek, waar op Octroy is geobtineert, in het geheel of ten deele koomen na te drukken, of elders nagedrukt in deese Provincie koomen in te voeren, uit te geeven of te verkoopen, in de Formulieren van Octroy ordinaris gesteld op drie honderd guldens, voortaan sullen werden verhoogt en gesteld tot drie duisend guldens, en dat t'elkens soo meenigmaal als deselve sullen werden agterhaald, en dat de Formulieren van Octroy daar meede geamplieert sullen werden.

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