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Updated: May 11, 2025
It was with a painful feeling, I had been obliged to listen to erroneous, immoral speeches contrary to an International Copy-right. They said that this republic must not care of the ruin of few publishers, or authors, when the plurality is benefitted by it; which is to say, the benefit of buying books cheaper than their real value! Fine christians, indeed!
'Accordingly a select number of the most respectable booksellers met on the occasion; and, on consulting together, agreed, that all the proprietors of copy-right in the various Poets should be summoned together; and when their opinions were given, to proceed immediately on the business.
The situation was not a new one to the dealer in the alphabet. He was an old depredator; and had before encountered angry authors, and artful lawyers. He was cool, collected, and unabashed. Not indeed entirely: but sufficiently so to excite astonishment. He affirmed the copy-right to be his own: would prove he had obtained it legally; and would face any prosecution that we could bring.
The necessary expense of preparing a work of such magnitude for the press, must have been a considerable deduction from the price stipulated to be paid for the copy-right.
The exclusive right of an author to the benefits of the sale of his books or writings, is called copy-right, and is obtained thus: The author sends a printed copy of the title of his book to the clerk of the district court of the United States of the district in which the author resides.
Dodsley, about ten years after his purchase, candidly owned that the sale had been more productive to him than that of any other book in which he had before been concerned; and with much liberality restored the copy-right to the author.
But, query? Has not all this, and the very title, for any thing I know, been done already by another, by a wiser? and, if so, by whom? An age and none so little in advance or in arrear of it as I of easy writing and discursive reading, of ideas unpatented, and books that have outlived copy-right.
However, as the greatest part of such a book is made by transcription, this mistake may have been carelessly adopted. I shall agree with Mr. Dilly for the copy-right. Miss SEWARD. 'That would be Hercules with the distaff indeed. JOHNSON. 'No, Madam. Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of Cookery. Mrs.
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