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Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges, The Hague (1715)
Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW 402 A 102
Citation:
Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges, The Hague (1715), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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[IN THE MARGIN: 472 Order on the petitioning and obtaining of Patents for the printing and reprinting of Books.]
THE Pensionary vanden Santheuvel has reported to the Meeting on the considerations and advice of the Lords Delegates of her Noble High Mightiness, pursuant to, and in satisfaction of, the same commissarial Resolution of 21 May 1708, examined the Petition by, or on behalf of, the Masters of the Booksellers in several Cities of this Province, presented to your Noble High Mightiness having as an Attachment an Argument, amply explaining the damages suffered by the Supplicants by the copying of their Books, the origin thereof and the means to prevent it in future, petitioning your Noble High Mightiness to reflect thereupon, and subsequently at their own discretion provide that the Supplicants thereby may be protected against such vexations.
Having been deliberated on, it has been consented and understood that may not be petitioned any patents for the printing and selling of Books under a wrong Title, but that in the Petition will have to be stated the real name or names of the Book or Books for which such patents will be petitioned.
[IN THE MARGIN: No patents are to be granted except to Books belonging and printed within this country.]
That the books, for which the aforesaid Patents will be petitioned, will have to be fully the property, at least for the biggest part, of Citizens of this Country, and will have to be printed in this Country.
[IN THE MARGIN: No printed Books are to be included in collections or corpora except with con-]
That in case of the petitioning and obtaining of Patents on collections or corpora, therein may not be included any Books, which already have been printed by other residents of the
Chapter 1 Page 2
(455)
1715
28 June
[IN THE MARGIN: sent of the first Printer.]
state, except with the consent of the first Printer.
[IN THE MARGIN: No Patents to be granted on School and Church Books and old Auctores Classici, except on new Notes or Indexes.]
And regarding School and Church Books, as well as old Auctores Classici, no further patents may be petitioned, except on the Annotations, Commentaries, Indexes etc. which will be newly added.
[IN THE MARGIN: All this on punishment of nullification.]
All this on punishment of nullification and voiding of the petitioned and obtained Patents.
[IN THE MARGIN: This Resolution to be attached to Patents.]
And from now on a Copy of this Resolution will be attached to all the aforementioned to be approved Patents, so that its assigns could not pretent ignorance thereof.
[IN THE MARGIN: The punishments against the pirating of patented Books to be raised from three hundred guilders to three thousand guilders.]
And finally, that the penalties against those who copy any Book, for which Patent has been obtained, in whole or in part, or to import, publish, or sell those copied elsewhere, in these Provinces, in the Letters Patent custumarily set at three hundred guilders, will from now on be increased and set to three thousand guilders, and that as many times as it will be identified, and that the Letters Patent will be expanded with that.
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Translation by: Miluska Kooij
Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW 402 A 102
Citation:
Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges, The Hague (1715), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Chapter 1 Page 1
(454)
1715
28 June
[...]
[IN THE MARGIN: 472 Order on the petitioning and obtaining of Patents for the printing and reprinting of Books.]
THE Pensionary vanden Santheuvel has reported to the Meeting on the considerations and advice of the Lords Delegates of her Noble High Mightiness, pursuant to, and in satisfaction of, the same commissarial Resolution of 21 May 1708, examined the Petition by, or on behalf of, the Masters of the Booksellers in several Cities of this Province, presented to your Noble High Mightiness having as an Attachment an Argument, amply explaining the damages suffered by the Supplicants by the copying of their Books, the origin thereof and the means to prevent it in future, petitioning your Noble High Mightiness to reflect thereupon, and subsequently at their own discretion provide that the Supplicants thereby may be protected against such vexations.
Having been deliberated on, it has been consented and understood that may not be petitioned any patents for the printing and selling of Books under a wrong Title, but that in the Petition will have to be stated the real name or names of the Book or Books for which such patents will be petitioned.
[IN THE MARGIN: No patents are to be granted except to Books belonging and printed within this country.]
That the books, for which the aforesaid Patents will be petitioned, will have to be fully the property, at least for the biggest part, of Citizens of this Country, and will have to be printed in this Country.
[IN THE MARGIN: No printed Books are to be included in collections or corpora except with con-]
That in case of the petitioning and obtaining of Patents on collections or corpora, therein may not be included any Books, which already have been printed by other residents of the
Chapter 1 Page 2
(455)
1715
28 June
[IN THE MARGIN: sent of the first Printer.]
state, except with the consent of the first Printer.
[IN THE MARGIN: No Patents to be granted on School and Church Books and old Auctores Classici, except on new Notes or Indexes.]
And regarding School and Church Books, as well as old Auctores Classici, no further patents may be petitioned, except on the Annotations, Commentaries, Indexes etc. which will be newly added.
[IN THE MARGIN: All this on punishment of nullification.]
All this on punishment of nullification and voiding of the petitioned and obtained Patents.
[IN THE MARGIN: This Resolution to be attached to Patents.]
And from now on a Copy of this Resolution will be attached to all the aforementioned to be approved Patents, so that its assigns could not pretent ignorance thereof.
[IN THE MARGIN: The punishments against the pirating of patented Books to be raised from three hundred guilders to three thousand guilders.]
And finally, that the penalties against those who copy any Book, for which Patent has been obtained, in whole or in part, or to import, publish, or sell those copied elsewhere, in these Provinces, in the Letters Patent custumarily set at three hundred guilders, will from now on be increased and set to three thousand guilders, and that as many times as it will be identified, and that the Letters Patent will be expanded with that.
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Translation by: Miluska Kooij