PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Copyright Act, New York (1790)

Source: Library of Congress: 1 Stat. 124 (1790).

Citation:
Copyright Act, New York (1790), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

Back | Record | Images | Commentaries: [1]
Record-ID: us_1790

Permanent link: https://copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord.php?id=record_us_1790

Full title:
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned

Full title original language:
N/A

Abstract:
The first federal copyright act. The act created for the first time a national, general copyright regime in the United States. The commentary describes the legislative history of the act, the main features of the regime it created and its close similarity to the British Statute of Anne. It concludes by briefly surveying the known information about copyright practice in the first decade of the federal regime.

1 Commentary:
commentary_us_1790

Bibliography:
  • Patterson, Lyman Ray. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.

  • Bugbee B. B. The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.

  • Abrams Howard B. 'The Historic Foundation of American Copyright Law: Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright.' 29 Wayne Law Review 1119 (1983).


Related documents in this database:
1710: Statute of Anne
1789: Ramsay's Petiton House Record
1789: House Joint copyright and patent bill decision
1789: Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10]
1789: Ramsay's Petition
1790-1800: Sample registrations
1802: 1802 Amendment
1828: H.R. 140 Committee Bill
1828: H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill
1831: Copyright Act
1834: Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1790

Location: New York

Language: English

Source: Library of Congress: 1 Stat. 124 (1790).

Persons referred to:
N/A

Places referred to:
America

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
U.S. Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Secretary of State's Office
U.S. Senate

Legislation:
U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790)

Keywords:
author/publisher relations
authors' remuneration
authorship, theory of
books, protected subject matter
deposit
duration
formalities
importation
inventors
learning, the advancement of
lobbying
manuscript
maps, protected subject matter
monopoly
patents, for invention
penalties, paid to author(s)
penalties, paid to fiscal authorities
property analogies
registration
remedies
renewal
states, US

Responsible editor: Oren Bracha


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