PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Renewed Swedish Censorship Laws, Stockholm (1684)

Source: Hans Kongl. May:s Stadga och Fordordning Om alla Nyskreffne Wärkz Censerande i Rijket, sa wid Academier och Skolar, som andra Orter innan dhe tryckte warda. Item. Stadfästelse på förra Kongl. Förordningar om thet samma, så och Exemplars inlefwererande til Kongl. Archivum och Bibliotheket aff alt thet som tryckt warder. Sampt Booktryckiarnes Straff som här emot bryta. Dat. Stockholm 5 Julij 1684. Trykt hos Niclas Wanküff, Kongelig boktrykker. The National Library of Sweden.

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Renewed Swedish Censorship Laws, Stockholm (1684), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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If this concerns other places within these realms where there are printing presses, we wish that the same rules be followed so that printers cannot freely publish whatever they please at their own discretion, with the exception of church and school books.  Instead, they should apply to the Consistory in that location, which can assess what is necessary or beneficial within this area. But when it comes to other works, whether they are of a spiritual or secular nature or have been recently written, they should not be allowed to be printed until they have been approved either by our Chancellery or by individuals specifically appointed to present such books. As for antiquities, they should be examined by the College of antiquities and those authorised. Likewise, bishops, superintendents, presidents of consistories, and other learned individuals in their respective places should carefully oversee what is being printed under their jurisdiction and not permit anything useless, harmful, or offensive to come to light.

 



    


underkastas. Men hwaf andre Orter här uthi Rijket, där Tryckerijen finnas, belangar, wele Wij at således där med förhållas skal, det Trykkarna icke effter deras egen Lust och Godtyckio, måge upläggia hwad nytt dem behagar, undantagandes Kyrkio- och Skole-Böcker, uthan angifwa sigh hoos Consistorium där å Orten, som bepröfwa må hwad i dhet Målet nödigt eller nyttigt wara kan: Men uthi andre Wärk, Andelige eller Werdzlige Saker som nyskreffne äro, intet understå sig något aff Trycket låta uthgå, för än dhe godkände ära, anten aff Wårt Canzlij eller sådane Män som til sådana Böckers upläggiande egenteligen förordnade äro; Såsom hwad Antiquiteter angå, egenteliga aff Antiquitatum Collegio, och dem ther wid authorizerade äro; Så skola och Biskoparne, Superintendenterne, Præsides Consistoriorum och andre lärde Männ hwar å sin Ort, hafwa här öfwer ett noga och grant inseende på dhet som hoos dem tryckt warder, och icke något onyttigt, skadeligit eller förargeligit tillåta i Liuset framkomma, stadfästandes Wij här med

 

 



    


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