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Copyright Act, Madrid (1879)

Source: Archivo del Congreso de los Diputados, ES. 28079. ACD, P-0002-01051

Citation:
Copyright Act, Madrid (1879), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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and to provincial and municipal authorities.

2. Scientific, literary, or artistic academies
or any other academy of a different kind
legally incorporated.
      
Article 5.- Copyright shall be regulated
by the main civil law rules (derecho común) without
more limitations than those established by the law.
      
Article 6.- Copyright belongs to authors
for their lives and it passes on to their
heirs-at-law, testamentary heirs or
legatees for eighty years.
      
It is also transmissible by inter vivos
transfers, and therefore it shall belong
to these property acquirers for the life
of the author plus eighty years after
the death of the author, if he does not
have compulsory heirs. However, if he had
compulsory heirs, the right of these
acquirers shall expire twenty five years
after the death of the author, passing on
to these compulsory heirs for a period of
fifty five years.
      
Article 7.- No one shall be able to
reproduce someone else's work without the
owner's consent, not even for the purposes of
annotating, adding or improving the edition.
However, everybody shall be able to publish,
and this shall be their exclusive property,
commentaries, criticisms, and remarks
related to the works, including only
the part of the text required for those aims.

    


      nes y á las provinciales y municipales.
      Segundo.- A los Institutos cienti-
      ficos, literarios ó artisticos, ó de otra
      clase legalmente establecidos.
      
      Articulo quinto.-La propiedad inte-
      lectual se regirá por el derecho co-
      mun sin mas limitaciones que las
      impuestas por la ley.
      
      Articulo sexto.-La propiedad inte
      lectual corresponde á los autores du-
      rante su vida, y se transmite á sus
      herederos, testamentarios ó legítimos;
      por el témino de ochenta años. Tam-
      es transmisible por actos entre vivos,
      y corresponderá á los adquirentes du-
      rante la vida del autor y ochenta
      años despues del fallecimiento de éste,
      si no deja herederos forzosos. Mas si los
      tuviese, el derecho de los adquirentes
      terminará veinticinco años despues de
      la muerte del autor y pasará la pro-
      piedad á los referidos herederos forzosos
      por tiempo de cincuenta y cinco años.
      
      Articulo sétimo.- Nadie podrá repro-,
      ducir obras agenas sin permiso de
      su propietario, ni aun para anotar-
      las, adicionarlas ó mejorar la edicion,
      pero cualquiera podrá publicar como
      de su exclusiva propiedad comentarios,
      críticas y notas referentes á las mismas,

    

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