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Supreme Court on Originality , Madrid (1861)

Source: Archivo del Tribunal Supremo. id. Cendoj: 28079110011861100099

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Supreme Court on Originality , Madrid (1861), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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      They stated that in 1849 a Curso de lectura por un nuevo método
       (Course for reading using a new method) had been published
      in Figueras, which follows that of Pujals. Its authors
      explained they had successfully taught this for a period
      of six years, and that in 1846 the same procedure was also
      published in Paris accompanied by a Teacher’s Guide, which
      was said to be used for over 20 years in many schools.
            
            Considering the result of these statements, Pujals cannot
      uphold the originality of the idea he developed in his work,
      and that it was exclusively a product of his scientific research,
      nor that when Hurtado adopted it in the one he published later on,
      that he had committed the plagiarism he was being accused of;
            
            And considering that under neither of these two concepts,
      that is, neither as a reproduction of a work or someone else’s
      original writing nor as a reproduction of an idea or
      method that the appellant published earlier, have the
      sections mentioned above been infringed.
      The claim should be dismissed and, due to the vagueness and
      lack of expression,
      


    



            mil ochocientos cuarenta y nueve se había publicado
            en Figueras un Curso de lectura por un nuevo mé-
            todo, en el que se sigue la marcha que en el de Pujals,
            espresando sus autores haberle enseñado por espa-
            cio de seis años con éxito felíz, y que en el de mil
            ochocientos cuarenta y seis se había publicado
            también en París el mismo procedimiento acompaña-
            do de una guia del Maestro, en la que se decía estar
            en práctica hacia más de 20 anos en muchas es-
            cuelas.
            
                  Considerando que atendido el resultado de
            estas declaraciones, no puede sostenerse por Pujals la
            originalidad de la idea que desenvolvió en su obra,
            y que fuese exclusivamente producto de sus investi-
            gaciones científicas, ni que al adoptarla Hurtado
            en la que publicó después cometiese el plagio que le
            imputa;
            
                  Y considerando que bajo ninguno de los dos con-
            ceptos espresados, esto es, ni como reproducción de una
            obra ó escrito original ajeno ni como reproducción de
            una idea ó método dado á conocer con anterioridad
            por el recurrente, se han infrigido los artículos que se
            citan, absolviéndose de la demanda á D. Tomás Hurta-
            do, y que por su vaguedad y falta de espresion no pue-


    

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