PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Copyright Act, London (1814)

Source: Durham University Library

Citation:
Copyright Act, London (1814), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of Printed Books, to the Authors of such Books or their Assigns, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156

Full title original language:
N/A

Abstract:
The commentary explores the background to the legislation, and in particular the controversy over the library deposit provision in the wake of the decision in Beckford v. Hood (uk_1798a). The commentary suggests that the introduction of the reversionary lifetime copyright term had more to do with the opportunistic and timely intervention of one Member of Parliament (Samuel Egerton Brydges) than with any principled or considered position adopted on the part of the legislature.

1 Commentary:
commentary_uk_1814

Bibliography:
  • Partridge, R.C.B., The history of the legal deposit of books throughout The British Empire (London: The Library Association, 1938)

  • McKitterick, D., Cambridge University Library, A History: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)

  • Feather, J., 'Publishers and Politicians: The Remaking of the Law of Copyright in Britain 1775-1842, Part I: Legal Deposit and the Battle of the Library Tax', Publishing History, 24 (1988): 49-76

  • Barnes, J.J., Free Trade in Books: A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)


Related documents in this database:
1812: Petition of the London Booksellers
1813: Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster
1813: Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers
1813: Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright
1813: Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning
1813: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July)
1818: Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts
1818: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence
1826: Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1814

Location: London

Language: English

Source: Durham University Library

Persons referred to:
Anne
George III

Places referred to:
Guernsey
Ireland
Isle of Man
Jersey
Scotland

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
British Museum
Court of Sessions, Scotland
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
Royal Library
Sion College, London
Society of the King's Inns, Dublin
Stationers' Company
Stationers' Hall
Trinity College, Dublin
University and King's College of Aberdeen
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of St Andrews

Legislation:
Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107
Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19

Keywords:
Stationers' Company
authorship, romantic concept of
book trade
books, protected subject matter
deposit
duration
editions, new
learning, the advancement of
libraries
lobbying
penalties
registration
universities

Responsible editor: Ronan Deazley


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