 | British museum dept. of pr. books - 1845 - 108 pages
...owners, or for giving them that property is not quite clear. The bill was entitled "A Bill for the encouragement of learning and for securing the property...of copies of books to the rightful owners thereof;" which title, when the bill passed the Commons, was altered to " An Act for the encouragement of learning,... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 444 pages
...owners, or for giving them that property, is not quite clear. The bill was entitled, " A Bill for the encouragement of learning, and for securing the property...of copies of books to the rightful owners thereof;" which title, when the bill passed the Commons, was altered to " An Act for the encouragement of learning,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 840 pages
...of January, 1 709, pursuant to an order made upon the booksellers' petition, a bill was brought in for securing the property of copies of books to the rightful owners, &c. On the i6th of February, 1 709, the bill was committed to a committee of the whole house ; and... | |
 | Robert Andrew Macfie - Copyright - 1879 - 450 pages
...first time. " Eesolved, That the Bill be read a second time." lUh January 1709. — "Ordered, That the Bill for Encouragement of Learning, and for securing the property of the copies of books to the rightful owners thereof, be read a second time upon Thursday morning next."... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - Copyright - 1890 - 316 pages
...11, 1709, contain the entry that Mr. Wortley brought in a " bill for the encouragement of learninr, and for securing the property of copies of books to the rightful owners thereof" (aj)). « Preamble. "Whereas printers &c. . . . have of late frequently taken the liberty (a) of printing,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - Copyright - 1896 - 348 pages
...Journals of the House for January 11, 1709, contain the entry that Mr. Wortley brought in a " bill for the encouragement of learning, and for securing the property...of copies of books to the rightful owners thereof " (a;).) Preamble. "Whereas printers &c. . . . have of late frequently taken the liberty (a) of printing,... | |
 | Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler. Bibliothek - Bibliographical literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...bestehenden Staatsverträge. Bern 1892. 8. £) Die Rechtslage in Grossbritannien. Abstruct, an, of the bill for Encouragement of learning, and for securing the property of books to the rightful owners. o. 0. u. J. l Blatt Fol. Aildrcss, the booksellers humble, to the honourable... | |
 | George Paston - Authors, English - 1907 - 672 pages
...one or two useful little Bills, notably one (in 1 709) for " the encouragement of learning, and the securing the property of copies of books to the rightful owners thereof." This was agitated for several years, but was lost in 1713. Mr. Wortley's friendship for Steele, to... | |
 | George III (King of Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1927 - 556 pages
...Lords ; but the attempts miscarried, upon Constitutional objections to a Licenser. By 8. Ann. Cap. 19. for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners ; Upon the whole he thinks that there is a Common Law-Right of an Author to his Copy ; that is not... | |
 | Jisuk Woo - Business & Economics - 2000 - 260 pages
...wholesalers tied to the monopoly, but no authors — finally secured legal protection in the "Act for the Encouragement of Learning and for Securing the Property...of Copies of Books to the Rightful Owners Thereof (known as the 1710 Copyright Act or the Statute of Queen Anne)" (Bettig, 1989, p. 10). The Statute... | |
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A Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and for securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof."7 The bill was received and read ; a second reading was appointed. 
