 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...principle, then, can a legislature or a court, determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions? If a man's right to his own productions in writing is as perfect аз to the production* of his farm or his shop, how can the former be abridged or limited, while the... | |
 | International Copyright Association - Copyright, International - 1868 - 54 pages
...author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions ? If a man's right to his own property in writing is as perfect as to the productions of...of manual labor reach higher in the scale of rights of property than the production of the intellect ? 5. Civilized society has recognized the right of... | |
 | 1868 - 820 pages
...can enjoy only a tempcrary property in his own productions? If a man's right to his own JTWductivns in writing is as perfect as to the productions of his farm, or his ehop, how can the former be abridged or limited, while the lattcg is held without limitations ! "\\~hy... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...author enjoys only a temporary property in his own productions. If a man's right to his own properly in writing is as perfect as to the productions of...of manual labor reach higher in the scale of rights of pro]>erty than the productions of the intellect?" — It is the case, however, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - Copyright - 1896 - 540 pages
...author enjoys only a temporary property in his own productions. If a man's right to his own. property in writing is as perfect as to the productions of...of manual labor reach higher in the scale of rights of property than the productions of the intellect ? " It is the case, however, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Grantland S. Rice - Business & Economics - 1997 - 256 pages
...that "no right or title to a thing can be so perfect as that which is created by a man's own labor ... a man's right to his own productions in writing is as perfect as to the productions of his farm or shop," publisher George Merriam, who later acquired the rights to Webster's An American Dictionary... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 616 pages
...principle, then, can а legislature or a court, determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions? If a man's right to his own...abridged or limited, while the latter is held without limitation? Why do the productions of manual labor rank higher in the scale of rights or property,... | |
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... the use of them for his own profit, is entire and perfect, as the faculties employed, and labor bestowed, are entirely and perfectly his own. On what principle, then, can a legislature or a court determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary... 