[Sca-cooks] Period copyright
James Prescott
prescotj at telusplanet.net
Thu Feb 10 13:35:21 PST 2011
Ouverture (Casteau) was given a specific exclusive license for six years.
That's in Liège, 1604, in what is now Belgium.
Thorvald
At 3:08 PM -0600 2/10/11, Terry Decker wrote:
> It's a grant of royal privilege permitting the
> exploitation of whatever property specified as
> the Crown directs. Within the Crown's domain,
> such a privilege could be enforced by the
> courts. Outside the Crown's domain, it is
> essentially unhenforceable. It was not
> standard to all texts, but granted to selected
> printers and selected texts. IIRC, the first
> general copyright law was issued by Queen Anne
> of England in 1710. From that, copyright laws
> were introduced in various nations. Modern
> copyright law is a mixture of national law and
> international treaty.
>
> Bear
>
>
>> I'm still slogging through the prose, but
>> Rumpolt includes a letter from Rudolf the
>> second, that appears to be a 10 year copy
>> protection, asking that no one else reprint it
>> for those ten years. I wonder if that was at
>> all a standard for printed books? Or what
>> enforced it?
>>
>> Ranvaig
>
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