PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Le Chapelier's report, Paris (1791)

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Le Chapelier's report, Paris (1791), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Report of Le Chapelier on Dramatic Author's property (with the Decree adopted by the National Assembly)

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Abstract:
Le Chapelier's report on Dramatic Author's property is often mentioned in the literary property historical debates for its famous assertion on the most sacred of all properties at last secured by revolutionary legislation ('La plus sacrée, la plus légitime, la plus inattaquable et, si je puis parler ainsi, la plus personnelle de toutes les propriétés, est l'ouvrage, fruit de la pensée d'un écrivainâ%80%A6'), in fact two years before Lakanal's preamble to the artistic and literary property law (July 1793). Whatever 'personal' the nature of property may have been to its author, the new legislation was however more complicated to interpret than it seemed, as duration, before the 'public property' had to start, remained thoroughly limited in time.

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Author: Le Chapelier

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Year: 1791

Location: Paris

Language: French

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Persons referred to:
Corneille, Pierre
De Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot
De Voltaire, François Marie Arouet
Le Chapelier, Isaac René Guy
Louis XIV
Molière
Racine, Jean

Places referred to:
England
France
Paris

Cases referred to:
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Institutions referred to:
Comité de Constitution (National Assembly)
National Assembly (1789-1791)

Legislation:
French law of 13 January 1791, concerning the works of living playwrights
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19

Keywords:
Enlightenment, the
French Revolution
authors' remuneration
authorship, legal concept of
authorship, romantic concept of
censorship
contract
divisibility
duration
duration, post mortem term
idea/expression
immoral works
incentives
inheritability
interest groups
monopoly
natural rights
penalties, paid to author(s)
personality theory
private domain
privileges
privileges, French
property theory, authors' property
public domain
public good
public performance
transferability

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