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(1450-1900)

Barcelona Newspaper' Printing Privilege, Barcelona (1792)

Source: Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona - Acuerdos de 1792, Fol. 130

Citation:
Barcelona Newspaper' Printing Privilege, Barcelona (1792), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Barcelona Newspaper Printing Privilege granted to Pedro Pablo Usson de Lepazaran

Full title original language:
Privilegio otorgado por el Rey Carlos IV a Don Pedro Pablo Usson de Lepazaran para poder editar y fundar un diario en la Ciudad de Barcelona. Gestiones en el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona

Abstract:
Requests for newspaper printing privileges were distinctive not only because they operated in limited geographical jurisdictions but also because they were positioned at the very juncture where copyright met censorship. While printing privileges are often depicted as award privileges to individual books, newspapers printing privileges, on the contrary, referred to a more undistinguishable yet trickier subject matter: a periodical. In that specific sense, newspaper privileges echoed earlier privileges on the printing press. The tension these requests for privileges developed between private and public realms also crystallised in their particular relation to local utility. Not surprisingly, privilege-granting authorities were town councils. In 1792, Pedro Pablo Husson went to Barcelona and contacted different municipal authorities to be protected by a privilege before the establishment of what would become one of the most remarkable newspapers in Spain: the Diario de Barcelona.

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Bibliography:
  • Álvarez Calvo, J. Historia del Diario de Barcelona 1792-1938 (Madrid, Editora Nacional, 1964)

  • García Martín, J. El juzgado de imprentas y la utilidad pública: cuerpo y alma de una Monarquía vicarial (Bilbao, Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2003)

  • Guillamet i Lloveras, J. "Pedro Pablo Husón de Lapazarán i els inicis del periodisme cultural i científic” Treballs de Comunicació, 10, 1998, pp. 119-129

  • Molist i Pol, E. El “Diario de Barcelona”, 1792-1963. Su historia, sus hombres y su proyección pública (Madrid, Editora Nacional, 1964)


Related documents in this database:
1506: Nebrija's Printing Privilege
1604: Petition for licence and privilege by Cervantes
1880: Copyright Regulations

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Publisher: N/A

Year: 1792

Location: Barcelona

Language: Spanish

Source: Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona - Acuerdos de 1792, Fol. 130

Persons referred to:
Usson de Lepazaran, Pedro Pablo

Places referred to:
Barcelona

Cases referred to:
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Institutions referred to:
Barcelona Town Council

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Keywords:
newspapers
privileges

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