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Supreme Court on Music Copyright, Madrid (1877)

Source: Archivo del Tribunal Supremo; Id. Cendoj: 28079120011877100068

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Supreme Court on Music Copyright, Madrid (1877), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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      the treaty on literary property rights held
      with France on 15 November 1853, with the capacity
      for applying it, because there is a fraudulent act
      when part or the whole work is reproduced and
      when its idea and method is reproduced.
      In such case, since the work of the accused was not
      an original work, according to the statement of the Court
      that rendered the judgment, but the idea was taken from
      and based on the themes of the opera “Las cien doncellas”,
      it is evident that the property rights have been subjected
      to a fraudulent act and that Messrs. Vives and Budó are the
      authors of this crime;
      
      
      Verified by the presiding Magistrate
      Eugenio de Angulo;
      
      Whereas pursuant to the first Article
      of the Law of 10 June 1847, literary property is the exclusive
      right held by the authors of original writings to reproduce
      or authorize their reproduction by any possible means.
      Composers of music are equally granted the same rights,
      according to Article three.
      
      
      Whereas article ten of the same Act
      establishes the right prohibiting the reproduction of


    

      el tratado relativo á propiedad literaria celebrado
      con Francia en quince de Noviembre de mil ocho-
      cientos cincuenta y tres, de inteligencia necesaria para
      la aplicación de aquel, puesto que hay defraudacion
      cuando se reproduce de todo ó parte de una obra,
      y cuando se reproduce en la idea y método de ella,
      y siendo asi que la de los procesados no era origi-
      nal, según declaración de la Sala sentenciadora sino
      tomada la idea y basada sobre los motivos de la
      ópera “Las cien doncellas”, era evidente que se había
      defraudado la propiedad de esta, y que Vives y Budó,
      son los autores de este delito;
      
      Visto siendo Ponente el magistrado Don
      Eugenio de Angulo;
      
      Considerando que con arreglo á lo definido en
      el artículo primero de la ley de diez de Junio de mil
      ochocientos cuarenta y siete, consiste la propiedad
      literaria en el derecho exclusivo de los autores de escri-
      tos originales para reproducirlos ó autorizar su repro-
      ducción por todos los medios posibles, correspondiendo
      igual derecho, según el artículo tercero á los compo-
      sitores de música;
      
      Considerando que el artículo diez de la misma
      ley sanciona un derecho prohibiendo la reproduccion


    

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