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(1450-1900)

Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting, Berlin (1785)

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Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting, Berlin (1785), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Immanuel Kant: 'On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting', essay in Berlinische Monatsschrift 5 (1785) 403-417

Full title original language:
Von der Unrechtmäßigkeit des Büchernachdrucks

Abstract:
This commentary will focus on the late reception of Locke's property theory in Germany, on German Enlightenment notions of the book as a 'speech', on the negligible impact of Kant's essay on German copyright theory, and it will also suggest a possible new relevance of Kant's ideas in the context of modern internet communication.

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Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: J. E. Biester, F. Gedike

Year: 1785

Location: Berlin

Language: German

Source: Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum, http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm.

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Lippert, Philipp Daniel

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Keywords:
Enlightenment, the
Napoleonic Wars
author/publisher relations
authors, self-publishing
authorship, theory of
contract
copy
idea/expression
labour theory
manuscript
natural rights
personality theory
portrait
property analogies
property theory
property theory, publishers' property
reprints
scholarly writing
transferability

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