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Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859)
Source: Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; D 51302
Citation:
Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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carelessly or due to the owner's lack of resources,
and in this case, society would also be harmed.
The hypothesis is difficult; but we could agree on its
possibility. Will this reason be capable of changing
something it is not by nature? And even then, would the
same thing not happen to all kinds of property?
It might be not wise to put certain conditions
that could belong to it because of its special nature,
because the same is also observed in all kinds of institutions;
but these regulatory restrictions can only be supported
when someone is blind to the true grounds for immaterial property,
there is an immense distance which in my view is not sufficient
to justify this hypothesis. Finally, it is said that the time
for which ownership is granted to the author is sufficient
to compensate his work. This reasoning, far from destroying our doctrine,
serves to strengthen and confirm it because in a clear and
definite manner, it reveals that the inventor's ownership
is just, extremely just; and with regard to the protection that
the legislator gives him, we do not agree that it is he who
should award it but the inventor himself who,after many late nights
and sleepless nights, has taken a step towards the advance of science,
and consequently to that of civilization.
I HEREBY STATE
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por descuido ó falta de recursos en el dueño, y en
este caso tambien se perjudica á la sociedad. Di-
fícil es el supuesto; mas convengamos en su posi-
bilidad. ¿Será esta razon capaz á variar una cosa
que por naturaleza no lo es? Y aun así, ¿no sucede
lo mismo con toda clase de propiedad? En buena
hora que se le pongan ciertas condiciones que la
puedan ser propias por su naturaleza especial, por-
que igual se observa en toda clase de institucion;
mas de estas restricciones reglamentarias, que
como tales únicamente se pueden sostener, á querer
desconocer el verdadero fundamento de la propie-
dad inmaterial, hay una distancia inmensa y que no
creo suficiente para justificar semejante suposi-
cion. Por último se dice que el tiempo por que se
concede la propiedad al autor es bastante para que
se pueda recompensar de su trabajo. Este razona-
miento, lejos de destruir nuestra doctrina, sirve para
robustecerla y confirmarla, porque de un modo
claro y terminante, revela que es justa, justísima la
propiedad del inventor; y respecto á la proteccion
que á él mismo le presta el legislador, no estamos
conformes en que sea este quien le deba dar,
sino el mismo que, despues de grandes vigilias y
desvelos, ha dado un paso en el adelanto de las
ciencias, y por consiguiente en la civilizacion.
HE DICHO
Source: Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; D 51302
Citation:
Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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carelessly or due to the owner's lack of resources,
and in this case, society would also be harmed.
The hypothesis is difficult; but we could agree on its
possibility. Will this reason be capable of changing
something it is not by nature? And even then, would the
same thing not happen to all kinds of property?
It might be not wise to put certain conditions
that could belong to it because of its special nature,
because the same is also observed in all kinds of institutions;
but these regulatory restrictions can only be supported
when someone is blind to the true grounds for immaterial property,
there is an immense distance which in my view is not sufficient
to justify this hypothesis. Finally, it is said that the time
for which ownership is granted to the author is sufficient
to compensate his work. This reasoning, far from destroying our doctrine,
serves to strengthen and confirm it because in a clear and
definite manner, it reveals that the inventor's ownership
is just, extremely just; and with regard to the protection that
the legislator gives him, we do not agree that it is he who
should award it but the inventor himself who,after many late nights
and sleepless nights, has taken a step towards the advance of science,
and consequently to that of civilization.
I HEREBY STATE
14
por descuido ó falta de recursos en el dueño, y en
este caso tambien se perjudica á la sociedad. Di-
fícil es el supuesto; mas convengamos en su posi-
bilidad. ¿Será esta razon capaz á variar una cosa
que por naturaleza no lo es? Y aun así, ¿no sucede
lo mismo con toda clase de propiedad? En buena
hora que se le pongan ciertas condiciones que la
puedan ser propias por su naturaleza especial, por-
que igual se observa en toda clase de institucion;
mas de estas restricciones reglamentarias, que
como tales únicamente se pueden sostener, á querer
desconocer el verdadero fundamento de la propie-
dad inmaterial, hay una distancia inmensa y que no
creo suficiente para justificar semejante suposi-
cion. Por último se dice que el tiempo por que se
concede la propiedad al autor es bastante para que
se pueda recompensar de su trabajo. Este razona-
miento, lejos de destruir nuestra doctrina, sirve para
robustecerla y confirmarla, porque de un modo
claro y terminante, revela que es justa, justísima la
propiedad del inventor; y respecto á la proteccion
que á él mismo le presta el legislador, no estamos
conformes en que sea este quien le deba dar,
sino el mismo que, despues de grandes vigilias y
desvelos, ha dado un paso en el adelanto de las
ciencias, y por consiguiente en la civilizacion.
HE DICHO