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'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents, Venice (1780)
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'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents, Venice (1780), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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the first discoverers and printers of books whose privileges have expired, and with
the prescribed sharing out of books for popular and school usage, that all the books
which until then anyone had been free to reprint, are to pass into the exclusive
perpetual privilege of a single person; as a result of which the greater part of those
books which are the most successful with readers, and which are therefore the
most essential for the trade, would be concentrated in the hands of a few individuals.
For what motives the current Prior of the Guild has been induced to lobby,
with his report on so essential a point, for an amendment to the numerous ancient and
more recent government measures, thanks to which the profitable business of the
Venetian book trade has been able to subsist for so many centuries, it is not for the
individual members of this Guild, who are all used to trading with foreign markets, to
enquire – for which members the way to being able to maintain their commercial
activities must necessarily remain closed as a result of such an amendment – even
though these same individuals, full of confidence in Your Serenity, their Prince and
Father, present themselves in the number of signatures included below, and as they
revere the other most wise measures and regulations, as well as the utmost virtue
and zeal which are laid down by the aforesaid ruling; and likewise under the guidance
of the public maxims which have been so clearly explained in the Sovereign
Legislation of the last three centuries, they respectfully implore the Most Clement
Attention of the Most Excellent Magistracy of the Gentlemen the Commissioners
of the University of Padua with regard to the aforesaid Decree of 9th August which
was passed in approval of the aforementioned ruling of 30th July, and, in particular,
to that section alone which approves those statutes of the ruling which pertain to
the aforesaid unity [?] and perpetual privilege for the reprinting of each such book
that had hitherto been open to all; whence [they implore you] to submit to public
consideration the fatal consequences which would flow from the execution of
these same statutes, to the grave detriment, and
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Citation:
'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents, Venice (1780), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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the first discoverers and printers of books whose privileges have expired, and with
the prescribed sharing out of books for popular and school usage, that all the books
which until then anyone had been free to reprint, are to pass into the exclusive
perpetual privilege of a single person; as a result of which the greater part of those
books which are the most successful with readers, and which are therefore the
most essential for the trade, would be concentrated in the hands of a few individuals.
For what motives the current Prior of the Guild has been induced to lobby,
with his report on so essential a point, for an amendment to the numerous ancient and
more recent government measures, thanks to which the profitable business of the
Venetian book trade has been able to subsist for so many centuries, it is not for the
individual members of this Guild, who are all used to trading with foreign markets, to
enquire – for which members the way to being able to maintain their commercial
activities must necessarily remain closed as a result of such an amendment – even
though these same individuals, full of confidence in Your Serenity, their Prince and
Father, present themselves in the number of signatures included below, and as they
revere the other most wise measures and regulations, as well as the utmost virtue
and zeal which are laid down by the aforesaid ruling; and likewise under the guidance
of the public maxims which have been so clearly explained in the Sovereign
Legislation of the last three centuries, they respectfully implore the Most Clement
Attention of the Most Excellent Magistracy of the Gentlemen the Commissioners
of the University of Padua with regard to the aforesaid Decree of 9th August which
was passed in approval of the aforementioned ruling of 30th July, and, in particular,
to that section alone which approves those statutes of the ruling which pertain to
the aforesaid unity [?] and perpetual privilege for the reprinting of each such book
that had hitherto been open to all; whence [they implore you] to submit to public
consideration the fatal consequences which would flow from the execution of
these same statutes, to the grave detriment, and
No Transcription available.