PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Willing Agreement of Booksellers in Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, etc., Amsterdam (1710)

Source: Vijf eeuwen boek in Nederland, ed. J. Diederich, (Haarlem: De Librije, 1940), 66-67.

Citation:
Willing Agreement of Booksellers in Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, etc., Amsterdam (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

Back | Record | Images | No Commentaries
Record-ID: nl_1710a

Permanent link: https://copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord.php?id=record_nl_1710a

Full title:
Willing agreement of the booksellers within Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht, etc., Amsterdam: 8 March 1710

Full title original language:
Willige overeenkomst der boekverkopers binnen Amstelredam, Leiden, Rotterdam, Hage, en Utrecht, etc., Amsterdam, 8 maart 1710

Abstract:
The Willing Agreement of the Booksellers (1710) was a collective agreement between booksellers in Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht to regulate the book trade and protect their commercial interests. It established measures to standardise book prices based on quality, to ensure fair competition and to combat piracy. The agreement laid down penalties for the sale of unauthorised reprints, introduced pricing guidelines for Latin and French works, and required quality control of printing and materials. The signatories pledged not to accept pirated books and agreed to take joint action against offenders. It also aimed to prevent foreign booksellers from undercutting Dutch booksellers and sought to enforce local control over pricing and distribution. As the commentary argues, this agreement reflects the growing professionalisation and self-regulation of the Dutch book industry in the early eighteenth century, while also illustrating an attempt to regulate exclusive rights beyond the doctrinal law.

Commentary: No commentaries for this record.

Bibliography:
N/A

Related documents in this database:
N/A

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1710

Location: Amsterdam

Language: Dutch

Source: Vijf eeuwen boek in Nederland, ed. J. Diederich, (Haarlem: De Librije, 1940), 66-67.

Persons referred to:
N/A

Places referred to:
N/A

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
N/A

Legislation:
N/A

Keywords:
N/A

Responsible editor: Stef van Gompel


Copyright History resource developed in partnership with:

Our Partners

Copyright statement

You may copy and distribute the translations and commentaries in this resource, or parts of such translations and commentaries, in any medium, for non-commercial purposes as long as the authorship of the commentaries and translations is acknowledged, and you indicate the source as Bently & Kretschmer (eds), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org).

With the exception of commentaries that are available under a CC-BY licence (compliant with UKRI policy) you may not publish individual documents or parts of the database for any commercial purposes, including charging a fee for providing access to these documents via a network. This licence does not affect your statutory rights of fair dealing.

Although the original documents in this database are in the public domain, we are unable to grant you the right to reproduce or duplicate some of these documents in so far as the images or scans are protected by copyright or we have only been able to reproduce them here by giving contractual undertakings. For the status of any particular images, please consult the information relating to copyright in the bibliographic records.

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) is co-published by Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK and CREATe, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 10 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK