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Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works, Madrid (1813)

Source: Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, Signature: U/10282 V.4) from Colección de los decretos y órdenes que han expedido las Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias, Volume 4, 1813, (Spain) pp. 105-106

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Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works, Madrid (1813), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Decree CCLXV on June 10, 1813. Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works

Full title original language:
Reglas para conservar á los escritores la propiedad de sus obras

Abstract:
According to some historians, Spanish copyright found here its first “immediate legislative precedent”. This genealogy is articulated around the controversial idea that copyright is nothing but property. If that conception of copyright is maintained, it makes sense to give historical prominence to these rules, which declared the property of books to their authors. In a typical liberal gesture, the content of the rules was also paradoxical since it quickly limited the property temporally. The rules were also promulgated in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Constitution of 1812, one of the most liberal (and ephemeral) of its time.

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Bibliography:
  • Argüelles, A. Las Córtes de Cádiz: examen histórico de la reforma constitucional que hicieron las Córtes Generales y estraordinarias [sic] desde que se instalaron en la Isla de León el día 24 de setiembre de 1810 hasta que cerraron en Cádiz sus sesiones en 14 del propio mes de 1813 (Madrid: Imprenta de las Novedades, 1865)

  • García Martín, J. "De la "apropiación penal" a la propiedad literaria: sobre los orígenes del derecho de propiedad intelectual en España (siglos XVIII-XIX)" Revista de la Facultad de Derecho Universidad Complutense, n. 93 (2000), pp. 105-149

  • Martínez Martín, J. “El Año Cristiano” de 1832 y el debate sobre la propiedad intelectual y los derechos de autor en el siglo XIX" Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 2007, vol. Extraordinario, pp. 165-174

  • Varela Suanzes, J. "La Constitución de Cádiz y el Liberalismo español del siglo XIX, Revista de las Cortes Generales, n, 10, Madrid, 1987, pp. 27-109.


Related documents in this database:
1837: Royal Order on Dramatic Copyright
1837: Royal Order on Music Copyright
1847: Literary Property Act

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1813

Location: Madrid

Language: Spanish

Source: Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, Signature: U/10282 V.4) from Colección de los decretos y órdenes que han expedido las Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias, Volume 4, 1813, (Spain) pp. 105-106

Persons referred to:
Del Castillo, Florencio
Domingo de las Nieves Rus, José
Goyanes Balboa, Manuel

Places referred to:
Cádiz

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias

Legislation:
N/A

Keywords:
French Revolution
abridgements
duration
editions, new
inheritability
newspapers, protected subject matter
property theory, authors’ property

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