PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Committee on Patents Report, Washington D.C. (1886)

Source: Harry Ransom Center: 49th Cong., 1st Sess., 1886, S. 1188.

Citation:
Committee on Patents Report, Washington D.C. (1886), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Report on the Bill S. 2496, From the Committee on Patents

Full title original language:
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Abstract:
A report from the Committee on Patents to the Senate. The report recommends the legislation of international copyright protection and proposes a Bill to that effect. The report was part of the effort to introduce international copyright protection to the United States that was renewed after the Civil War.

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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.


Related documents in this database:
1838: Report, from the Committee on Patents
1853: Letters on International copyright
1872: International Copyright Bill

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1886

Location: Washington D.C.

Language: English

Source: Harry Ransom Center: 49th Cong., 1st Sess., 1886, S. 1188.

Persons referred to:
Chace, Jonathan
Drake, Sir Francis

Places referred to:
England
Great Britain
Washington

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Library of Congress
U.S. Congress
U.S. Senate

Legislation:
U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789
U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790)
U.S. Copyright Act 1802 (Amendment of 1790 Act), 2 Stat. 171 (1802)
U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436
U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1856, 11 Stat. 138
U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1865 (extending copyright to photographs), 13 Stat. 540, c.126
U.S. Patent Act 1790
U.S. Patent Act 1793, 1 Stat. 318-323
U.S. Patent Act 1800, 1, 2 Stat. 37
U.S. Patent Act 1832, 4 Stat. 162
U.S. Patent Act 1836, 5 Stat. 117

Keywords:
Anglo-American
book market
book trade
constitution, US
formalities
importation
learning, the advancement of
patents, for invention
property theory, authors' property
public good
reciprocity
royalty/royalties

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