PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Censorship Instruction for Newspapers, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1701)

Source: Danish National Archives: Danish Chancellery: Instruktionsbøger for kollegier, institutioner og embedsmænd: A90-2, 1698-1730, fol. 104-107.

Citation:
Censorship Instruction for Newspapers, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1701), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

Back | Record | Images | Commentaries: [1]
Translation only | Transcription only | Show all | Bundled images as pdf

            Chapter 1 Page 5 of 8 total



and audiences, everything must be carefully observed, as it has been done, so that nothing of it may be quoted to the detriment of our future ceremonies.

 

6. In the newspapers everything shall be omitted which is likely to offend foreign sovereigns and governments, and especially our friends, relatives, neighbors and allies, or, in general, the envoys, ambassadors and foreign ministers residing at our court, and which might be offended thereby; nor shall any skeptical, contemptuous or insinuating remarks be permitted about any foreign person of high rank.

 

7. Otherwise, certain things may be said of our known allies and friends which may

 



    


Audientzer skal alt til nøye observeris, saaleedis som det passeret er, paa det i fremtiden intet deraf kunde anføris voris Ceremoniel til præjuditz.

 

6. Af Adviserne skal udeladis alt hvis eragtis, at fremmede Potentater og Regieringer, og allermeest vore Frender, Forvanter, Naboer og Allierede eller almindeligen de ved voris Hof residerende Gesandter, Abgesandter og fremmede Ministres kunde have billigen Aarsag til at støde sig paa, og derved offenderis, desligeste skal ej heller nogen Scoptisch, haanlig eller nærgaaende Expressioner om nogen fremmed høi Stands Person derudi tilstædis.

 

7. Ellers maa om vore kundbare Allierede og Venner et og andet anføris, som kunde

 



    


Copyright History resource developed in partnership with:


Our Partners


Copyright statement

You may copy and distribute the translations and commentaries in this resource, or parts of such translations and commentaries, in any medium, for non-commercial purposes as long as the authorship of the commentaries and translations is acknowledged, and you indicate the source as Bently & Kretschmer (eds), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org).

With the exception of commentaries that are available under a CC-BY licence (compliant with UKRI policy) you may not publish individual documents or parts of the database for any commercial purposes, including charging a fee for providing access to these documents via a network. This licence does not affect your statutory rights of fair dealing.

Although the original documents in this database are in the public domain, we are unable to grant you the right to reproduce or duplicate some of these documents in so far as the images or scans are protected by copyright or we have only been able to reproduce them here by giving contractual undertakings. For the status of any particular images, please consult the information relating to copyright in the bibliographic records.


Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) is co-published by Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK and CREATe, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 10 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK