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Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers, Paris (1690s)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22071 n° 177

Citation:
Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers, Paris (1690s), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Memorandum on the dispute which has arisen between the booksellers of Paris and those of Lyon, regarding the privileges and extensions of these which the King grants for the printing of books

Full title original language:
Mémoire sur la contestation qui est entre les libraires de Paris et ceux de Lyon au sujet des privilèges et des Continuations que le Roy accorde pour l'impression des livres

Abstract:
Following the serious weakening of the public domain entailed by the royal decrees and regulations of 1665 and 1686, this memorandum was one of the first examples, if not the first, from the Parisian booksellers to describe the right of exploitation safeguarded by privileges in terms of private property. In this perspective, as the commentary will endeavour to show, it certainly anticipated in some respects the 1725 famous plea of the Parisian guild by Louis d’Héricourt, since book trade privileges became explicitly regarded essentially as a legitimate means to secure the personal labour of authors and booksellers contractually invested in the publication of a literary work. However, at the time and under a monarch such as Louis XIV, this was obviously not attempted without rhetorical precautions, not to say equivocations or contradictions. Moreover, in addition to the traditional references to the public interest, the new system supported by the Parisian booksellers in order to defend their monopolies did not yet give to authors the central place they would theoretically find with Héricourt in the Eighteenth century.

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Year: 1690s

Location: Paris

Language: French

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22071 n° 177

Persons referred to:
Aubéry, Antoine
Bertier, Antoine
Bilaine, Pierre
Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Combesis, Francisco
Comenius
Couterot, Edme
Cramoisy, Sébastien
D'Andilly, Robert Arnauld
De La Haye, Jean
Desprez, Guillaume
Dufresne, Charles, Sieur Du Cange
Duplessis, Armand Jean, Cardinal de Richelieu
Furetière, Antoine
Giunti, Filippo
Giunti, Jacques
Goibaud-Dubois, Philippe
Gonet, Jean Baptiste
Le Jeune, Nicolas, Sieur de Franqueville
Le Petit, Pierre
Lemaistre, Louis-Isaac, Sieur De Sacy
Louis XIV
Maimbourg, Louis
Mazarin, Jules
Meturas, Gaspard
Morin, Jean
Pralard, André
Rebuffé, Pierre
Richelet, César-Pierre
St Augustine
Tertullian
Tinghi, Philippe

Places referred to:
Amsterdam
Angoulême
Antwerp
Blois
Bordeaux
Caen
Champagne
England
Europe
Florence
France
Geneva
Germany
Grenoble
Limoges
Lyon
Madrid
Netherlands
Normandy
Nuremberg
Orleans
Paris
Reims
Rome
Rouen
Seville
Spain
Toulouse
Troyes
Venice

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Académie française
Collège de Montaigu (University of Paris)
King's Council of State (France)
Lyon Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Rouen Guild of Booksellers and Printers

Legislation:
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1665
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686

Keywords:
authors' remuneration
barter trade
book market
book trade
duration, prolongation of privileges
interest groups
lobbying
patronage
perpetual protection
printing, history of
privileges, French
property analogies
property theory, publishers' property
public domain
public good
religious works
renewal
scholarly writing
subscription
translations, protection of
utility

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