Letters on International CopyrightA. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1853 - 72 Seiten |
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Seite 7 - British colony, because of the facility it affords for the violation of our laws; or that which would have us regard smugglers, in general, as the great reformers of the age. We stand in need of no such morality as this. We can afford to pay for what we want; but, even were it otherwise, our motto here, and everywhere, should be the old French one : " Fais ce que doy, advienne qne pourra" — Act justly, and leave the result to Providence.
Seite 23 - German a work that has 24 yielded the largest compensation that the world has yet known for the same quantity of literary labor. We are constantly told that regard to the interests of science requires that we should protect and enlarge the rights of authors; but does science make any such claim for herself? I doubt it. Men who make additions to science know well that they have, and can have, no rights whatever.
Seite 10 - ... we will agree that nobody else shall present them in the same dress. During that time you may exhibit them for your own profit, but at the end of that period the clothing will become common property, as the body now is. It is to the contributions of your predecessors to our common stock that you are indebted for the power to make your book, and we require you, in your turn, to contribute towards the augmentation of the stock that is to be used by your successors.
Seite 49 - York, a local work, price &4 50, the sale has been 3,000; equal to almost 30,000 of a similar work for the United Kingdom. How great is the sale of Judge Story's books can be judged only from the fact that the copy-right now yields, and for years past has yielded, more than $8,000 per annum.
Seite 72 - We can safely recommend this remarkable work to all who wish to investigate the causes of the progress or decline of industrial communities."— Blackwood's Magazine. Letters to the President of the United States.
Seite 10 - Let us turn now, for a moment, to the producers of works of fiction. Sir Walter Scott had carefully studied Scottish and Border history, and thus had filled his mind with facts preserved, and ideas produced, by others, which he reproduced in a different form. He made no contribution to knowledge. So. too, with our own very successful Washington Irving. He drew largely upon the common stock of ideas, and dressed them up in a new, and what has proved to be a most attractive form.
Seite 9 - Place's great work, but the combination of the processes and discoveries of the great mathematicians before his day, with his own extraordinary genius ? What are all modern law books, but new combinations and arrangements of old materials, in which the skill and judgment of the author in the selection and exposition and accurate use of those materials, constitute the basis of his reputation, as well as of his copy-right ? Blackstone's Commentaries and Kent's Commentaries are but splendid examples...
Seite 11 - The flowers are mine, but the arrangement is yours. You cannot keep the bouquet, but you may smell it, or show it for your own profit, for an hour or two, but then it must come to me. If you prefer it, I am willing to pay you for your services, giving you a fair compen12 sation for your time and taste.
Seite 22 - ... to extend the domain of knowledge. I think you will not. Next look and see if you do not find in it the names of those who furnish the world with new forms of old ideas, and are largely paid for so doing. The most active advocate of international copy-right is Mr. Dickens, who is said to realize $50,000 per annum for the sale of works whose composition is little more than amusement for his leisure hours.
Seite 47 - Of all American authors, those of school-books excepted, there is no one of whose books so many have been circulated as those of Mr. Irving. Prior to the publication of the edition recently issued by Mr. Putnam, the sale had amounted to some hundreds of thousands; and yet of that edition, selling at $1.25 per volume, it has already amounted to 144,000 vols. Of