165
Code of Laws
for the
Royal Prussian Lands.
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Nr. 22
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Statute for the protection of property in Works of Scholarship and art
against reprinting and reproduction. [Enacted] on 11 June 1837
We, Frederick William, by the Grace of God, King of
Prussia etc. etc.
In order to safeguard, for the sake of property in works of scholarship
and the arts, the necessary protection [of these] from reprinting and reproduction,
We have felt induced to subject the existing laws to a certain modification and
expansion, and We hereby, on the request of Our State Ministry and following a report
from Our State Council, enact the following.
§. 1. The right to have an already published work reprinted anew, wholly or
partially, or reproduced by any kind of mechanical means, is vested solely in its
author or in those who have been appointed by him for this purpose.
§. 2. Every such new reproduction, if undertaken without the consent of the
exlusive right-holder (§1.), is regarded as a reprint, and is forbidden.
§. 3. It is considered as equivalent to reprinting, and hence also forbidden,
to carry out, without the consent of the author or his legal successors, an
impression of
a) manuscripts of all kinds,
b) transcribed sermons or academic lectures, regardless of
whether these are published under the author's real name
or not.
§.4. Not to be regarded as reprinting is:
1) the verbatim quotation of individual sections from an already printed
work;