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Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires', Paris (1868)

Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD)

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Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires', Paris (1868), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
'Literary Entailments: Examination of a bill whose purpose it is to create, for the benefit of authors, inventors and artists, a perpetual monopoly.'

Full title original language:
'Les majorats littéraires. Examen d'un projet de loi ayant pour but de créer, au profit des auteurs, inventeurs et artistes, un monopole perpétuel.'

Abstract:
Facing the claims for a perpetual protection for literary and artistic property, in fact soon to be extended to 50 years p.m.a. in 1866, Socialist thought in France would engage in the debate on the nature of the author's right largely through the voice of Proudhon in his famous pamphlet against 'literary entailments' ('majorats littéraires'), fist published in 1862. Society had to be able to do without property. To an even greater extent, literary property 'is theft'! Proudhon in his radical outlook rejected any distinction whatsoever between an author and an inventor, and even the most fundamental concepts in this area, such as the idea/form dichotomy.

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Author: Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)

Publisher: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Co.

Year: 1868

Location: Paris

Language: French

Source: Bibliothèque universitaire de Poitiers (SCD)

Persons referred to:





Aeschylus
Alembert, Jean le Rond D'
Alloury, Louis
Arago, Dominique François Jean
Arnauld, Antoine
Auber, Daniel François Esprit
Augier, Guillaume Victor Emile
Augustine, St
Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Barrère de Vieuzac, Bertrand
Barthe, Félix
Bastiat, Frédéric
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
Bentham, Jeremy
Bergier, Nicolas-Sylvestre
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli, Jacques
Bernoulli, Jean
Bezout, Étienne
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
Bonald, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
Bourdaloue, Louis
Buddha
Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Béranger, Pierre Jean de
Caesar, Gaius Julius
Calmet, Antoine Augustin
Calvin, John
Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis
Cantú, Cesare
Cato, Marcus Porcius, 'the Elder'
Chapsal, Charles Pierre
Charlemagne
Charles X
Chateaubriand, François René, Vicomte de
Chaudey, Gustave
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Clarke, Samuel
Clovis
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de
Confucius
Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin
Copernicus, Nicolas
Coq, Paul
Courtois, Edme-Bonaventure
Cousin, Victor
Dalloz, Désiré
Dante Alighieri
David
Decazes, Élie, Duc
Defoe, Daniel
Demosthenes
Descartes, René
Diderot, Denis
Didot, Ambroise-Firmin
Dolfus, Jean
Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques
Duvergier, Jean-Baptiste
Enfantin, Barthélemy Prosper
Epicurus
Fermat, Pierre de
Festius, Porcius
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Fleury, Claude
Flourens, Jean Pierre
Fontanes, Louis, Marquis de
Foucher, Victor
Fouché, Joseph, Duke of Otranto
Fréret, Nicolas
Fust, Johannes
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe
Gautier, Théophile
Gobelin
Goezmann, Louis Valentin de
Gutenberg, Johannes
Hecquet, Gustave
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hetzel, Pierre-Jules
Homer
Horace
Hoëne-Wronski, Józef Maria
Hugo, Victor
Imhaus, G.
James II
Jobard, Jean Baptiste Ambroise Marcelin
Kant, Immanuel
Karr, Jean Baptiste Alphonse
La Bruyère, Jean de
La Fontaine, Jean de
La Guéronnière, Vicomte de
Laboulaye, Édouard René de
Lacroix, Albert
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de
Lavergne, Léonce Guilhaud de
Law, John of Lauriston
Le Chapelier, Isaac René Guy
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lhomond, Charles François
Louis XII
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Louis XVIII
Louis-Philippe
Lucan
Lucretius
Luther, Martin
Malebranche, Nicolas
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mathieu de Dombasle, Christophe-Joseph-Alexandre
Maury, Alfred
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de
Modeste, Victor
Mohammed
Molière
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de
Mérimée, Prosper
Napier, John
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nisard, Charles
Nodier, Charles
Nogent Saint Laurens, Henri
Noël, François-Joseph-Michel
Numa Pompilius
Ovid
Paillotet, Prosper
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
Papin, Denis
Pascal, Blaise
Passy, Frédéric
Pelletan, Pierre Clément Eugène
Perrault, Charles
Persigny, Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de
Pindar
Plato
Pliny 'the Elder'
Pluquet, François-André-Adrien
Pompey
Pradon, Jacques
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph
Ptolemy
Pyrrho
Pythagoras
Rabelais, François
Racine, Jean
Renaudot, Théophraste
Richelieu, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de
Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de
Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph
Rouland, Gustave
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Say, Jean Baptiste
Schneider, Eugène
Schöffer, Peter
Sennefelder, Aloys
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph Comte
Simon, Jules François
Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard Simond de
Socrates
Sophocles
Spinoza, Baruch de
St Paul the Apostle
St Vincent de Paul
Suin, Victor
Taylor, Isidore Justin Séverin, baron
Thibaudeau, Antoine
Thierry, Édouard
Thiers, Louis Adolphe
Turgot, Louis Félix Étienne marquis de
Tyrtaeus
Ulbach, Louis
Viardot, Louis
Vico, Giovanni Battista
Vieta, Franciscus
Villemain, Abel-François
Villiaumé, Nicolas
Virgil
Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio, Count
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Count
Watt, James
Wolowski, Louis
Zeno of Citium

Places referred to:
Abyssinia
Anvers
Athens
Belgium
Besançon
Brussels
Corinth
Damascus
Egypt
England
Germany
Leipzig
Livorno
London
Lyon
Nazareth
Paris
Persia
Rome
Russia
Sparta
Switzerland
Sèvres
Varennes
Versailles

Cases referred to:
Proudhon v. the unauthorised republisher in 1852 of his 'Essai de grammaire générale' (1 ...

Institutions referred to:
Académie française
Comédie-Française
Conservatoire de Paris
Corps législatif (1852-1870)
Council of State (France)
Crédit Agricole (f.1860)
Crédit Foncier de France (f.1852)
Crédit Mobilier de France (f.1852)
Guillaumin (fl.1830-1890), publishing house
Lacroix & Verboeckhoven, publishers (Brussels)
National Assembly (1789-1791)
National Convention (1792-1795)
Senate of France

Legislation:
Code Pénal 1810
Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804
French Copyright Act 1793
French Law on Patents for Inventions 1854
French law of 13 January 1791, concerning the works of living playwrights

Keywords:
Bible, the
Enlightenment, the
French Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Reformation, the
abridgements
academic freedom
adaptation
advertising
anthologies
architecture, protected subject matter
art market
author/publisher relations
authors' remuneration
authorship, romantic concept of
authorship, theory of
barter trade
book market
book trade
books, protected subject matter
censorship
classics, Greek and Latin
contract
counterfeit
divine law
duration
editions, new
employer/employee relations
expurgation
grammars
guilds
idea/expression
imitation
incentives
industrial revolution
interest groups
inventions
inventors
labour theory
learning, the advancement of
libraries
lobbying
monopoly
moral rights, divulgation (first publication)
moral rights, integrity
music, protected subject matter
newspapers
novelty
oral works, protected subject matter
originality
paintings, protected subject matter
patents, for invention
perpetual protection
personality theory
piracy
plagiarism
printing, history of
privileges
privileges, French
privileges, printing
property analogies
property theory
property theory, authors' property
public domain
public good
reciprocity
religious works
reprints
royalty/royalties
scholarly writing
sculpture, protected subject matter
societies, authors'
subscription
taxation
translation, right of
typography
universities
unpublished works
utilitarianism
utility

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