Source: Danske Kanselli 1572-1799, RA/EA-3023/F/Fc/Fca/Fcaa/L0042: Norske registre, 1763-1766, s. 487a-b, 488a. Location: Danish National Archives.
Citation:
Licence to Establish an Office of Advertisements in the City of Bergen, Copenhagen (1764), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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We, Frederick the Fifth, by the grace of God, King of Denmark, Norway, etc., etc., make it known to all that Ole Brose, acting policeman in our merchant town of Bergen, has humbly taken upon himself, for the public good and for the convenience of the merchants and others in and around Bergen, to establish, at his own expense and risk, a Office of Advertisment, similar to the one in our royal residence of Copenhagen. He has requested our most gracious privilege to establish and maintain such a Office of Advertisment in Bergen. Our dear Mr. Ulrich Frederick von Cicignon, knight, privy councillor and commissioner of the diocese of Bergen, as well as governor of the southern county of Bergenhus, has announced in his received declaration that the establishment of such an office of advertisment
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in Bergen would be beneficial to trade, as it would then be possible to announce in a safe, convenient and less costly manner what ought to be publicly known, such as what goods are for sale and whether any persons are interested in purchasing certain goods, or similar announcements. Public orders of authority, which have hitherto been announced by drum rolls and by posting them on the doors of churches or similar places, where they are promptly taken down, announcements of auctions, inventories of estates, and the like, could be made public with less trouble and expense in a Office of Advertisment. We wish, following the humble petition and request of the aforementioned Ole Brose, to graciously grant and allow, as we now do grant and allow, that he himself shall have the right to establish in Bergen and its diocese a office of advertisment in the same manner as that which exists in Copenhagen. He must, however, undertake to give information about what has been requested to be imported into his establishment, and any other information that may be requested about the office of advertisment,
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in a text written by him and approved by the diocesan administrator in the said diocese of Bergen. It is forbidden for anyone to act in any way against what has been prescribed herein with our respect and grace. Written in our castle at Christiansborg, in our royal city of Copenhagen, 7 December 1764, Frederick R.
Translation by: Mersiha Bruncevic