The Law of Literature: Reviewing the Laws of Literary Property in Manuscripts; Books, Lectures, Dramatic and Musical Compositions; Works of Art, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c.; Copyright Transfers, and Copyright and Piracy; Libel and Contempt of Court by Literary Matter, Etc, Volum 2

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J. Cockcroft & Company, 1875
 

Continguts

3
76
Difficulties in the way of discussed
79
Authors right to perpetuate and conserve his own works
94
12
96
Copyright may exist in artistic as well as literary works
108
The Rights of Readers
114
CHAPTER II
134
Origin of the Stationers Company
135
The third
141
Statutes of other countries in chronological order
147
In Prussia 153
153
In Saxony
154
In Greece
161
Statutes of copyright do not affect an authors right to
174
Abolition of the StarChamber
180
Tax upon authors in favor of libraries
181
All copyright records transferred to Washington
187
Alien friend rights of
197
Another method
204
No governmentcopyright in the United States with
211
Miltons Areopagitica a state paper of the republic
213
Nor in abstract titles or subjects
219
Application for extension of copyright
228
Notice of copyright to be inserted in the copyrighted
234
Distinction between actions for the piracy and actions
240
A piracy may be of a part the penalty can only
241
CHAPTER III
267
Attempts to suppress the drama
274
Dramatic literature an early prey to imitators and plagia
283
come within dramatic copyright acts
289
Commonlaw rights of alien dramatic authors in
298
What adjuncts incidents and accompaniments are pro
305
A copyright will not protect any mechanical adjuncts
319
Accessorial or proprietary copyright in dramatic matter
326
Piracy by memorization
339
Piracy by amateur theatricals
345
One who knowingly sells a dramatic composition to
352
A court of equity cannot compel one to write plays under
353
Rules laid down in Keene v Wheatley discussed
361
Law of newspaper libel
409
A difference to be observable between public interest and PAGE
415
Contempt of court by newspapers
423
Comments on the private character of public individuals
432
Further examples of the rule
438
Must be fair and reasonable
444
A writer of book reviews as amenable to the law
452
Defamatory rumors affecting one or more individuals
459
Of public meeting
469
people but rather as matter of expediency to
474
Matter may be so scandalous as not to justify its publica
481
Newspapers responsible for the headings attached
490
The right to criticise considered
496
As to what is competent evidence relating to newspapers
503
The manuscript must be accounted for
509
CHAPTER V
515
Origin of the custom of law reporting
517
Theory of precedents
525
Embarrassments connected therewith
532
Report to the Bar Association of the city of New York
545
Copyright of legal reports exists in the crown or the state
565
Copyright in annotation of legal work rule in Lawrence
576
Not applicable to digests
583
CHAPTER VI
619
Rules applicable to photographs engravings and prints
628
Publisher to determine time and mode of publication
634
Publisher cannot assign a contract except upon original
640
Literary contracts when not assignable
646
Literary contract in violation of copyright void
653
Personal representatives of authors not entitled to bene
659
Question of damage does not enter into the definition
665
Plagiarism or borrowing of ideas no piracy
668
Courts will not curtail the fair use of literary material
676
Piracy by quotation
684
Copyright protection extends to every part of a work
691
Piracy of copyrighted dramatic production
697
Two sorts of injunctions
706
Right of plaintiff to an account
714

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Pàgina 588 - ... if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth...
Pàgina 726 - That in the construction of this act, the words "engraving," 20 "cut" and "print" shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations or works connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be used for any other articles of manufacture shall be entered under the copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office.
Pàgina 592 - ... the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, and vending such book or books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, in whole or in part, for the term of twenty-eight years from the time of recording the title thereof, in the manner hereinafter directed.
Pàgina 313 - The office of a trademark is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the article to which it is affixed or, in other words, to give notice who was the producer.
Pàgina 192 - ... any new and original design for a manufacture, bust, statue, alto-relievo, or bas-relief ; any new and original design for the printing of woolen, silk, cotton, or other fabrics ; any new and original impression, ornament, pattern, print, or picture to be printed, painted, cast or otherwise placed on or worked into any article of manufacture...
Pàgina 93 - Every person who shall print or publish any manuscript whatever, without the consent of the author or proprietor first obtained, if such author or proprietor is a citizen of the United States, or resident therein, shall be liable to the author or proprietor for all damages occasioned by such injury.
Pàgina 725 - ... following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some...
Pàgina 732 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned...
Pàgina 190 - States or resident therein, who 5 shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts...
Pàgina 722 - ... assigns of any such person shall, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, have the sole liberty of printIng, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vending the same; and.

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