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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We hereby confirm all that is contained in the regulations issued during our years as a minor in 1662 and 1663, which changes nothing other than words and letters compared to what has been introduced. We have, much to our dismay, noticed that very few copies of all the writings, books, and treatises that have been published since the year 1661 have been delivered to our archive and library, even though it has been strictly prescribed and commanded, and we have now strictly order that everything that has been neglected and overlooked in this matter up to the present day shall be carried out and completed without delay. Printers everywhere are obliged to provide an accurate list and record of everything that has been issued from their workshops since that time and to immediately submit two copies, one to our archive and one to our library, as previously mentioned. But if there

 



    


alt hwaf ofwander:de uthi Wår minderåhrigheet åhr 1662 och 1663 uthgångne Placater förmå och innehålla, icke annorledes än wore dhe Ord ifrån Ord och i sielfwe Bookstafwen här införde. Elliest alldenstund Wij och icke uthan Misznöye förnimme, at aff alle dhe Skriffter, Böcker och Tractater, som sedan åhr 1661 aff Trycket uthgågne äro, ganska få Exemplar til Wårt Archivium och Bibliothec inlefwererade äro, där om lijkwäl så alfwarsampt uthi ofwander:de Placat befallat och påbudet är; Ty wele Wij ännu här med strängeligen befallat och påbudet hafwa, at hwad här til dagz uthi det Målet försummat och uthut acht lätit är, här effter oemotsäyeligen wärkställas och fullbordas skal, warandes Booktryckiarne å alle Orter förplichtade at gifwa en pertinent Lista och Antekning på alt det som sedan den Tijden aff deras Wärkstäder uthgångit är, och uthaff dhe Materier som dhe ännu hafwa Exemplar behåldne, strax twenne inlefwerera, det ena uthi Wårt Archivium, det andra i Wårt Bibliothec, som här ofwanföre förmält är. Men aff dhe

 



    


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