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Copyright Regulations, Madrid (1880)

Source: scanned from Legislación de Propiedad Intelectual (Madrid, Imprenta Nacional, 1881) pp. 35-75

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Copyright Regulations, Madrid (1880), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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CHAPTER III
      
Newspapers
      
ARTICLE 15
      
            In this part, periodicals
mean daily and weekly newspapers,
magazines and any other type of
printed matter issued one or more
times a day or regularly or irregularly
at stated intervals bearing a permanent
title, whether of scientific, political,
literary or any other nature.
      
ARTICLE 16
      
            Newspaper proprietors
who want to secure their rights shall
made explicit the nature of their work
when submitting their declaration to the
copyright office, without prejudice of
the rights belonging to the authors of
articles or works included in these
publications when they have only
granted the right of inclusion.
      
            The registration made by
newspaper proprietors not only secures
the property over the works submitted
as owners who request an inscription, it
also extends to the property of authors
or their sucessors in title who have not
waived their rights.
      
ARTICLE 17
      
            Authors who fell within the
situation mentioned in the preceding article
shall not be required to register their works
again.
      
      
      
      

If they need to justify their rights, they may
request and obtain a certificate from the
copyright registrar specifying that they have
legallly acquired rights after the registration
of the corresponding newspaper or periodical.
      
            If making the application mentioned
in the preceding paragraph, the interested party
shall indicate the issue of the newspaper in which
the work whose ownership he desires to certify
was inserted and the copyright registrar shall
issue a special certificate of this work,
identifying it in the appropriate manner
to avoid confusion with any other work.
      
ARTICLE 18
      
            No reservation of rights
expressed either in general terms or
in a specific way as a footnote to
each work means that all the material
inserted in newspapers can be reproduced
without authorisation in any other
publication. However, and in any case,
the periodical reproducing something
from another should quote the original
from which it is copied.
      
ARTICLE 19
      
            The rule established
in the preceding paragraph is subject to
the following exception in relation to
drawings, lithographies, music and the
rest of artistic works inserted in periodicals
and novels and scientific, artistic and literary
works even when published in serialised
manner or by chapters. These works shall,
without the need of reservation of rights,
be excepted from the rule.
      
            In order to reproduce or
copy the works mentioned in the preceding
paragraph, authorisation from the
      



    







CAPITULO III
      
De los periódicos
      
ARTICULO 15
      
            Se entenderá por publicaciones pe-
riódicas los Diarios, Semanarios, Revistas y
toda série de impresos que salgan á luz una
ó por intervalos de tiempo regulares ó irre-
gulares, con título constante, bien sean cien-
tíficas, políticas, literarias ó de cualquier otra
clase.
      
ARTICULO 16
      
            El propietario de periódicos que preten-
da asegurar la propiedad deberá manifestar
al hacer la declaración en el Registro el concep-
to en que la solicita, sin perjuicio de los derec-
hos que correspondan á los autores de los
artículos ú obras insertas en estas publicacio-
nes, si no hubieran enajenado más que el
derecho de insercion.
            El registro hecho por los propietarios de
las publicaciones periódicas garantizará, no sólo
la propiedad de lasobras como dueños hayan
adquirido los que solicitan la inscripcion, sino
tambien la propiedad de los autores ó de sus
derecho-habientes que no hayan renunciado
á ella por no haber autorizado más que el
derecho de insercion.
      
ARTICULO 17
      
            Los autores que se encuentren en el ca-
so del articulo anterior no necesitaran inscribir
de nuevo sus obras literarias,

y podrán pedir y obtener del encargado del
Registro, cuando necesiten justificar sus dere-
chos, un resguardo que acredite haber adqui-
rido legalmente la propiedad por medio de
la inscripcion del periódico ó publicacion
correspondiente.
            Al formalizar la petición á que se refiere
el párrafo anterior, deberá el interesado deter-
minar el número del periódico en que se ha-
ya insertado el trabajo cuya propiedad le con-
venga acreditar, y el encargado del registro
general librará una certificación especial de
dicho trabajo, identificándolo de manera que
no pueda confundirse con ningún otro.
      
ARTICULO 18
      
            Todo cuanto se inserte en publicaciones
periódicas podrá ser reproducido sin previo
permiso por las demás publicaciones, si no
se expresa en general ó al pié de cada trabajo
la circunstancia de quedar reservados los
derechos; pero en todo caso la publicacion
periódica que reproduzca algo de otra, estará
obligada á citar la original de donde copia.
      
ARTICULO 19
      
            De la regla establecida en el artículo
anterior se exceptúan los dibujos, litografías,
música y demás trabajos artísticos que conten-
gan las publicaciones periódicas, y las novelas
y obras científicas, artísticas y literarias, aunque
se publiquen por trozos o capítulos, y sin ne-
cesidad de hacer constar la reserva de derechos.
            Para la reproduccion ó copia de los
trabajos enumerados en el párrafo anterior, se
necesitará siempre el permiso



    

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