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Pluquet's letters, Paris (1778)
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter
Citation:
Pluquet's letters, Paris (1778), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Record-ID: f_1778
Permanent link: https://copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord.php?id=record_f_1778
Full title:
Three Letters to a friend concerning the Book Trade
Full title original language:
Trois lettres à un ami concernant les Affaires de la Librairie
Abstract:
The 'Letters' of the Abbot Pluquet constitute one of the most important documents written in response to the solutions adopted in August 1777 concerning the duration of book trade privileges, in order to shatter the monopolies of the Parisian guild of booksellers. Defending, like the lawyer Linguet, the notion of a literary property, the exercise of which, by the act of publication, had to be guaranteed in an absolute manner by the king’s legislative prerogatives, Pluquet focussed in particular on outlining, as precisely as possible, the specific nature of its object. In this perspective, along the critique of the royal legislation and its coherence, the comparison made between a literary work and a technical or industrial invention was a representative example of the way in which the idea/form distinction was progressively perceived in French copyright discourse.
1 Commentary:
commentary_f_1778
Bibliography:
N/A
Related documents in this database:
1777: French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges
1777: Linguet's memorandum
Author: François-André-Adrien Pluquet l'Abbé (1716-1790)
Publisher: N/A
Year: 1778
Location: Paris
Language: French
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter
Persons referred to:
Abelard, Peter
Ambrogini, Angelo
Anisson-Duperron, Etienne
Bignon, Jérôme
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
Corneille, Pierre
Curtius Rufus, Quintus
D'Aguesseau, Henri-François
D'Argenson, René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis
D'Héricourt, Louis
De Carrières, Louis
De Miromesnil, Armand Thomas Hue
De Voltaire, François Marie Arouet
Des Moulins, Guyart
Desaint, Jean
Didot, François
Didot, François-Ambroise
Didot, Pierre-François
Duplain, Pierre
Elzevir
Erasmus
Estienne, Charles
Estienne, Henri I
Estienne, Henri II
Estienne, Robert
Froben, Johann
Henri IV
Horace
Jousse, Daniel
Kerver, Jacques
Ladvocat, Jean-Baptiste
Le Bret, Cardin
Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît
Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Maboul, Jean-François
Marmontel, Jean François
Molière
Morel, Fédéric
Pluquet, François-André-Adrien
Pralard, André
Quesnel, Pasquier
Sallust
Seignette, Pierre
St Bruno
St Francis of Sales
St Gregory of Nazianzus
St Paul the Apostle
Tacitus, Publius
Terence
Terray, Joseph Marie
Virgil
Von Trattner, Johann Thomas
William of Champeaux
Places referred to:
Avignon
Bordeaux
England
Germany
Holland
Ireland
Italy
Lyon
Orléans
Paris
Rouen
Scotland
Toulouse
Versailles
Vienna
Cases referred to:
Desaint's widow v. Duplain (1778)
Martin v. Léonard (1670-1673)
Institutions referred to:
Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris)
Cour de Commerce (Paris)
King's Council of State (France)
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Parlement of Paris
Legislation:
Code de la Librairie 1723
Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777)
French Royal Letters Patent (1701), on the book trade
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1618
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686
Keywords:
Bible, the
Enlightenment, the
Reformation, the
almanacs
author/publisher relations
authors' remuneration
authors, self-publishing
authorship, theory of
book market
book trade
classics, Greek and Latin
common law copyright
contract
counterfeit
distributive justice
divisibility
duration
duration, prolongation of privileges
editions, new
foreign reprints
free trade
idea/expression
immoral works
importation
incentives
inheritability
interest groups
labour theory
manuscript
medical tracts
monopoly
natural rights
newspapers
patents, for invention
patronage
penalties, paid to fiscal authorities
penalties, paid to publisher(s)
perpetual protection
personality theory
piracy
plagiarism
price regulation
printing, history of
privileges
privileges, French
privileges, German Imperial
privileges, Spanish
privileges, printing
property analogies
property theory
property theory, authors' property
property theory, publishers' property
public domain
public good
religious works
remedies
renewal
reprints
royalty/royalties
scholarly writing
scribal publication
taxation
transferability
universities
unpublished works
Responsible editor: Frédéric Rideau
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter
Citation:
Pluquet's letters, Paris (1778), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
Back | Record | Images | Commentaries: [1]
Record-ID: f_1778
Permanent link: https://copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord.php?id=record_f_1778
Full title:
Three Letters to a friend concerning the Book Trade
Full title original language:
Trois lettres à un ami concernant les Affaires de la Librairie
Abstract:
The 'Letters' of the Abbot Pluquet constitute one of the most important documents written in response to the solutions adopted in August 1777 concerning the duration of book trade privileges, in order to shatter the monopolies of the Parisian guild of booksellers. Defending, like the lawyer Linguet, the notion of a literary property, the exercise of which, by the act of publication, had to be guaranteed in an absolute manner by the king’s legislative prerogatives, Pluquet focussed in particular on outlining, as precisely as possible, the specific nature of its object. In this perspective, along the critique of the royal legislation and its coherence, the comparison made between a literary work and a technical or industrial invention was a representative example of the way in which the idea/form distinction was progressively perceived in French copyright discourse.
1 Commentary:
commentary_f_1778
Bibliography:
N/A
Related documents in this database:
1777: French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges
1777: Linguet's memorandum
Author: François-André-Adrien Pluquet l'Abbé (1716-1790)
Publisher: N/A
Year: 1778
Location: Paris
Language: French
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22063 n°68, 68bis, 68ter
Persons referred to:
Abelard, Peter
Ambrogini, Angelo
Anisson-Duperron, Etienne
Bignon, Jérôme
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
Corneille, Pierre
Curtius Rufus, Quintus
D'Aguesseau, Henri-François
D'Argenson, René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis
D'Héricourt, Louis
De Carrières, Louis
De Miromesnil, Armand Thomas Hue
De Voltaire, François Marie Arouet
Des Moulins, Guyart
Desaint, Jean
Didot, François
Didot, François-Ambroise
Didot, Pierre-François
Duplain, Pierre
Elzevir
Erasmus
Estienne, Charles
Estienne, Henri I
Estienne, Henri II
Estienne, Robert
Froben, Johann
Henri IV
Horace
Jousse, Daniel
Kerver, Jacques
Ladvocat, Jean-Baptiste
Le Bret, Cardin
Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît
Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Maboul, Jean-François
Marmontel, Jean François
Molière
Morel, Fédéric
Pluquet, François-André-Adrien
Pralard, André
Quesnel, Pasquier
Sallust
Seignette, Pierre
St Bruno
St Francis of Sales
St Gregory of Nazianzus
St Paul the Apostle
Tacitus, Publius
Terence
Terray, Joseph Marie
Virgil
Von Trattner, Johann Thomas
William of Champeaux
Places referred to:
Avignon
Bordeaux
England
Germany
Holland
Ireland
Italy
Lyon
Orléans
Paris
Rouen
Scotland
Toulouse
Versailles
Vienna
Cases referred to:
Desaint's widow v. Duplain (1778)
Martin v. Léonard (1670-1673)
Institutions referred to:
Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris)
Cour de Commerce (Paris)
King's Council of State (France)
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Parlement of Paris
Legislation:
Code de la Librairie 1723
Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777)
French Royal Letters Patent (1701), on the book trade
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1618
Parisian Book Trade Regulations 1686
Keywords:
Bible, the
Enlightenment, the
Reformation, the
almanacs
author/publisher relations
authors' remuneration
authors, self-publishing
authorship, theory of
book market
book trade
classics, Greek and Latin
common law copyright
contract
counterfeit
distributive justice
divisibility
duration
duration, prolongation of privileges
editions, new
foreign reprints
free trade
idea/expression
immoral works
importation
incentives
inheritability
interest groups
labour theory
manuscript
medical tracts
monopoly
natural rights
newspapers
patents, for invention
patronage
penalties, paid to fiscal authorities
penalties, paid to publisher(s)
perpetual protection
personality theory
piracy
plagiarism
price regulation
printing, history of
privileges
privileges, French
privileges, German Imperial
privileges, Spanish
privileges, printing
property analogies
property theory
property theory, authors' property
property theory, publishers' property
public domain
public good
religious works
remedies
renewal
reprints
royalty/royalties
scholarly writing
scribal publication
taxation
transferability
universities
unpublished works
Responsible editor: Frédéric Rideau