[Sca-cooks] Period copyright

[James Prescott]

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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