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Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges, Venice (1780)

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Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges, Venice (1780), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Venetian Reprint of the Decree of 30 August 1777 of the King's Council of State in France, on the duration of privileges

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Abstract:
That several Venetian publishers led by 'Heirs of Niccolò Pezzana', who had recently petitioned the Senate for the ruling of 30 July 1780 establishing a perpetuity of privileges to be repealed, should soon afterwards reprint the French royal decree of 30 August 1777 is not surprising. For these provisions - the last major set of book trade regulations enacted under the Ancien Régime - established a clear time-limit on the printing privileges held by booksellers (normally the author's lifetime) and decreed (in Art. VI) that a permit to print a new edition of the work after the author's death could be requested not just by the first privilege-holder but by other publishers, too. The anti-monopolistic tenor of this French decree tallied with the aspirations of these major Venetian publishers who were anxious to preserve their liberty of reprinting their less wealthy colleagues' publications once the privileges for these had expired.

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Related documents in this database:
1777: French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges
1781: 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings

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Publisher: Pezzana e Consorti

Year: 1780

Location: Venice

Language: Italian

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Persons referred to:
Amelot de Chaillou, Antoine-Jean
Le Camus de Neville, François Claude Michel Benoît
Louis XVI

Places referred to:
Paris
Versailles

Cases referred to:
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Institutions referred to:
Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris)
King's Council of State (France)
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers

Legislation:
Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777)

Keywords:
authors' remuneration
duration
duration, prolongation of privileges
formalities
inheritability
licensing, Approbation
licensing, Imprimatur
monopoly
patronage
perpetual protection
price regulation
privileges
privileges, printing
registration

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