PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.), London (1840)

Source: University of Birmingham Library: Hansard, 3rd Ser., vol.52, 400-23

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Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.), London (1840), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill, Hansard, 3rd Ser., 52 (1840): 400-423 (14 Feb.)

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Year: 1840

Location: London

Language: English

Source: University of Birmingham Library: Hansard, 3rd Ser., vol.52, 400-23

Persons referred to:
Arkwright, Sir Richard
Blair, Hugh
Buller, Charles
Bunyan, John
Burke, John
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale
Campbell, Thomas
Canning, Charles John, 1st Earl
Canning, George
Charles II
Dryden, John
Elizabeth I
Ewart, William
Foucher, Victor
Fox, Charles James
Gibbon, Edward
Graham, James, 4th Duke of Montrose
Harrison, John
Horsley, Samuel
Hume, David
Hume, Joseph
Hunt, Leigh
Inglis, Sir Robert
Jervis, John
Johnson, Samuel
La Rochefoucauld, François, 6th Duc de
Lardner, Dionysius
Lowndes, John J.
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of
Martineau, Harriet
Milton, John
Moore, Sir Thomas
Murray, John, II
Napoleon I
O'Brien, William Smith
Robertson, William
Sackville, Charles, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex
Shakespeare, William
Smith, Adam
Smith, John
Southey, Robert
Spenser, Edmund
Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope
Strutt, Edward, 1st Baron Belper
Ségur, Philippe Paul
Talfourd, Thomas Noon
Wakley, Thomas
Walsh, Rev. Robert
Warburton, Henry
Watt, James
Wordsworth, William

Places referred to:
America
Austria
Blenheim
Brazil
Denmark
East Indies
France
Glasgow
Prussia
Russia
Spain
Sweden
United States

Cases referred to:
Donaldson v. Becket (1774) 4 Burr. 2408, 2 Bro. P.C. 129

Institutions referred to:
Chamber of Deputies, Paris
Court of Chancery, England
Federal Assembly (Bundestag) of the German Confederation
French Chamber of Peers
House of Commons
House of Lords
Privy Council

Legislation:
Calico Printers' Act, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38
Copyright Law of 1805 (Spain)
Copyright Law of 1828 (Russia)
Directive of reciprocal protection within the German Confederation (1837)
French Imperial decree on the book trade 1810
Prussian Copyright Act 1837
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790)
U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436

Keywords:
applied art, protected subject matter
authors' remuneration
authorship, romantic concept of
duration, post mortem term
interest groups
lobbying
moral rights, theory
new editions
patents, for inventions

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