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Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials, Washington D.C. (1848)

Source: The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Memorials of John Jay and of William C. Bryant and Others, in favor of An international copyright law, 30th Cong, 1st sess., 1848, H. Doc. 76

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Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials, Washington D.C. (1848), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Memorials of John Jay and of William C. Bryant and Others, in Favor of an International Copyright Law

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Abstract:
Petitions submitted to Congress advocating the legislation of international copyright protection.

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Bibliography:
  • Khan, B. Zorina. The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  • Clark, Aubert J. The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth Century America. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1960.

  • Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.


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Publisher: N/A

Year: 1848

Location: Washington D.C.

Language: English

Source: The University of Texas Tarlton Law Library: Memorials of John Jay and of William C. Bryant and Others, in favor of An international copyright law, 30th Cong, 1st sess., 1848, H. Doc. 76

Persons referred to:
Abbott, Jacob
Abeel, David
Adams, Hannah
Alexander, Archibald
Allston, Washington
Alsop, Richard
Anthon, Charles
Appleton, George S.
Arthur, Timothy Shay
Audubon, John James
Babcock, Sidney
Baird, Robert
Bancroft, George
Barnes, Albert
Barnes, Alfred Smith
Bartlett, John Russell
Beck, Theodric Romeyn
Belden, Lemuel W.
Bellamy, Joseph
Biddle, Edward C.
Bird, Robert Montgomery
Blake, Alexander V.
Bohn, Henry George
Botta, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Bradley, Benjamin
Bremer, Fredrika
Brewster, Osmyn
Bristed, John
Bruen, Matthias
Bryant, William Cullen
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens
Burnap, George Washington
Bush, George
Buttman, Philipp Karl
Cabot, Sebastian
Caesar, Gaius Julius
Capen, Nahum
Carlyle, Thomas
Caruthers, William Alexander
Catlin, George
Chandler, Peleg Whitman
Channing, William Ellery
Chapman, T. Ellwood
Cheever, George Barrell
Child, Lydia Maria
Clark, John Alonzo
Clark, William
Cleaveland, Parker
Clinton, DeWitt
Coleman, Lyman
Colton, Calvin
Colton, George Hooker
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cox, Samuel Hanson
Crocker, Uriel
Crowen, T. J.
Curtis, George Ticknor
Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, baron
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
Davies, Samuel
Dewey, Orville
Doane, George Washington
Dobson, Judah
Dodd, Moses Woodruff
Drake, Samuel Gardner
Dunglison, Robley
Dunigan, Edward
Dunlap, William
Dwight, Timothy
Eddy, Thomas
Edwards, Jonathan
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Everett, Edward
Farnham, Thomas Jefferson
Fay, Theodore Sedgwick
Field, Maunsell Bradhurst
Finney, Charles Grandison
Fisk, Pliny
Flint, Timothy
Follen, Charles
Follen, Eliza Lee, née Cabot
Folsom, Charles
Foster, Benjamin Wood
Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte
Fowle, William B.
Francis, Charles S.
Franklin, Benjamin
Frey, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick
Frost, John
Fuller, Sarah Margaret
Furness, William Henry
Gallaudet, Rev. Thomas Hopkins
George, Richard Samuel Henry
Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm
Gibbs, George
Gliddon, George Robins
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold
Gowans, William
Grant, Asahel
Greenhow, Robert
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot
Gérando, Joseph Marie, baron de
Hall, James
Harris, Chapin Aaron
Harris, Thaddeus Mason
Hart, Samuel
Hawes, Joel
Hoffman, Charles Fenno
Hoffman, Ogden
Hogg, George
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Hooker, Herman
Hopkins, John Henry
Horace
Hosack, David
Huntington, Susan, née Mansfield
Hyer, John G.
Ingraham, Joseph Holt
Irving, John Treat
Irving, Theodore
Irving, Washington
Jarves, James Jackson
Jarvis, Samuel Farmar
Jay, John
Jay, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Judson, Ann Hasseltine
Keith, Reuel
Kendall, George Wilkins
Kennedy, John Pendleton
Kent, James
King, Col. John Anthony
Kirkland, Caroline
Knapp, Georg Christian
Knowles, James Davis
La Fontaine, Jean de
Lanman, Charles
Leavitt, Jonathan
Ledyard, John
Lee, Hannah Farnham, née Sawyer
Leslie, Eliza
Leverett, Frederick Percival
Lewis, Meriwether
Lieber, Dr. Francis
Liner, James
Lippincott, Joshua B.
Lockwood, Roe
Longacre, James Barton
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longman, Thomas, IV
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell
Mackenzie, William Lyon
Mahan, Dennis Hart
Malcolm, Rev. Howard
Maltby, A. H.
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl
Marshall, John
McHenry, James
McVickar, John
Melville, Herman
Metcalf, Samuel Lytler
Middlebrook, Samuel
Miles, Pliny
Molina, Juan Ignacio
Morrell, Benjamin
Morse, Jedidiah
Motley, John Lothrop
Murray, Lindley
Mussey, B. B.
Muzzey, Artemas Bowers
Neander, Johann August Wilhelm
Newman, Samuel Phillips
Nordheimer, Isaac
Norton, Andrews
Osborn, William
Osgood, Frances Sargent, née Locke
Owen, John
Parker, Rev. Samuel
Parker, Richard Green
Paulding, James Kirke
Payson, Rev. Edward
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
Phelps, Almira Hart Lincoln
Pierpont, John
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poinsett, Joel Roberts
Porter, Ebenezer
Prescott, William Hickling
Putnam, Francis
Putnam, George Palmer
Ray, Isaac
Rider, Jane C.
Ritch, John Warren
Robinson, Edward
Ruschenberger, William Samuel Waithman
Rush, Richard
Sanderson, John
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Sedgwick, Theodore
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley
Simms, William Gilmore
Skinner, Thomas Harvey
Smith, Thomas B.
Sparks, James A.
Sparks, Jared
Sprague, William Buell
Spring, Rev. Gardiner
Steele, Oliver G.
Stephens, John Lloyd
Stewart, Rev. Charles Samuel
Story, Joseph
Story, William Wetmore
Stuart, Moses
Sue, Marie Joseph Eugène
Taylor, Edward G.
Taylor, John S.
Tegg, Thomas
Theobald, William
Thompson, Daniel Pierce
Thorburn, Grant
Ticknor, William Davis
Todd, John
Townsend, John Kirk
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore
Tyng, Stephen Higginson
Walker, Edward
Walsh, Robert
Warden, David Bailie
Ware, Henry, Jr.
Ware, William
Washington, George
Waterston, Robert Cassie
Wayland, Francis
Webb, Thomas H.
Webster, Noah
Welford, Charles
Wheaton, Henry
Whipple, Henry
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Wilson, William
Wines, Enoch Cobb
Winslow, Benjamin Davis
Woolman, John
Worcester, Joseph Emerson
Worcester, Noah
Wright, Elizur
Wright, James P.

Places referred to:
America
Andover, Massachusetts
Buffalo, New York
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charleston, South Carolina
England
Europe
France
Great Britain
Hamburg
Hartford, Connecticut
London
New Haven
New York
Norway
Philadelphia
Poughkeepsie, New York
Russia
Salem, Massachusetts
Sweden
Syracuse, New York
Utica, New York
Washington
Watertown, New York

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, American publishing firm (Andover, MA)
Appleton & Co., American publishing firm
Bennett, Backus & Hawley, American publishing firm (Utica, NY)
British Museum
Colton & Jenkins, American bookbinding firm (New York)
Crocker & Brewster, American publishing firm (Boston)
Hogan & Thompson, American publishing firm (Philadelphia)
John F. Trow & Co., American printing firm
Library of Congress
Otis, Broaders & Co., American publishing firm (Boston)
R.H. Sherburne & Co., American publishing firm (Boston)
Robert Carter & Bros., American publishing firm
Robinson, Pratt, & Co., American publishing firm (New York)
Smithsonian Institution
Stationers' Company
Swords, Stanford, & Co., American publishing firm (New York)
Tappan & Dennet, American publishing firm (Boston)
U.S. Congress
U.S. District Courts
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
Wiley & Putnam, American publishing firm (New York, 1838-1848)

Legislation:
Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1846
Anglo-Saxonian Copyright Treaty 1846
Connecticut Copyright Statute 1783
Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45
Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hanover 1847
International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict., c.59
Smithsonian Institution Act 1846, 29th Cong.
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436

Keywords:
Anglo-American
adaptation
authors' remuneration
book market
book trade
deposit
duration
foreign reprints
grammars
interest groups
international agreements, multilateral
learning, the advancement of
lobbying
moral rights, integrity
piracy
property theory, authors' property
property theory, publishers' property
public good
reciprocity
reputation
translation, right of

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