PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1723)

Source: Kongelige Rescripter, Resolutioner og Collegialbreve for Danmark og Norge. 3 : 1699-1730, Gyldendal 1793.

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Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1723), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Resolutions and Collegial writs, 1722. January 22nd.

Rescript (to the University of Copenhagen) concerning the fact that it now stands [that] all book printers are from now on free,

 



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after prior censorship and permission, to print both the prescribed Church Psalm Book and other clerical as well as secular books for which no other person has a legitimate [printing] privilege (such as the privilege granted to J. Lauridssen for the Church Psalm Book, which has now expired). ([This rescript was promulgated] on the occasion of a request from the printer Lynov to sell the aforementioned Psalm Book, which he had already printed, at a low price.)




Translation by: Mersiha Bruncevic

    

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