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French Decree on Musical Publications, Paris (1786)
Source: Archives nationales : AD 1075 (document conservé aux Archives nationales, Paris).
Citation:
French Decree on Musical Publications, Paris (1786), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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with the opinion of the Keeper of the Seals, has ordered
& orders what follows:
FIRST ARTICLE
The Authors & Publishers who will wish to have works
of music engraved, with words or without words, will not
be able to do so without having obtained from the Keeper
of the Seals the permission or the privilege of the seal,
according to the Ordinances and Regulations established
for the Book trade; & he will not make granted, for the
aforementioned works, any privilege of the seal or any
permission to Merchant Publishers, then those justified
by a transfer of rights [cession] to them which will have
been made by the Authors or owners, or that insofar as
they will be the first to present themselves, whilst it
involves a matter of having printed or engraved in the
Kingdom music which, without being a counterfeit, already
will have been engraved or printed in foreign countries.
II.
All those which will have obtained privileges or
permissions to print, engrave & sell or make sell national
or foreign music, will be held to provide for the public
Libraries, nine copies with the Syndical Chamber of the
Booksellers & Printers [Chambre syndicale des Libraires &
Imprimeurs], or to send them postage-paid, & this before
selling or distributing any other copy.
III.
No Engraver will engrave music unless he has procured
permission or the privilege of the seal, which he will be
held to engrave at the head of the work, by adding to it
his distinctive mark & his name at the end of work.
IV.
No Printer in copper-engraving will print music unless
insofar as the formalities prescribed above will be fulfilled
on the copperplate itself, & that after having been in
person, or having sent a self-signed attestation, to make
his statement at the Office of Stamps, which will be addressed
hereafter in article XII & following; in which declaration he
No Transcription available.
Source: Archives nationales : AD 1075 (document conservé aux Archives nationales, Paris).
Citation:
French Decree on Musical Publications, Paris (1786), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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with the opinion of the Keeper of the Seals, has ordered
& orders what follows:
The Authors & Publishers who will wish to have works
of music engraved, with words or without words, will not
be able to do so without having obtained from the Keeper
of the Seals the permission or the privilege of the seal,
according to the Ordinances and Regulations established
for the Book trade; & he will not make granted, for the
aforementioned works, any privilege of the seal or any
permission to Merchant Publishers, then those justified
by a transfer of rights [cession] to them which will have
been made by the Authors or owners, or that insofar as
they will be the first to present themselves, whilst it
involves a matter of having printed or engraved in the
Kingdom music which, without being a counterfeit, already
will have been engraved or printed in foreign countries.
All those which will have obtained privileges or
permissions to print, engrave & sell or make sell national
or foreign music, will be held to provide for the public
Libraries, nine copies with the Syndical Chamber of the
Booksellers & Printers [Chambre syndicale des Libraires &
Imprimeurs], or to send them postage-paid, & this before
selling or distributing any other copy.
No Engraver will engrave music unless he has procured
permission or the privilege of the seal, which he will be
held to engrave at the head of the work, by adding to it
his distinctive mark & his name at the end of work.
No Printer in copper-engraving will print music unless
insofar as the formalities prescribed above will be fulfilled
on the copperplate itself, & that after having been in
person, or having sent a self-signed attestation, to make
his statement at the Office of Stamps, which will be addressed
hereafter in article XII & following; in which declaration he
No Transcription available.