The Laws of Copyright: An Examination of the Principles Which Should Regulate Literary and Artistic Property in England and Other Countries (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Excerpt from The Laws of Copyright: An Examination of the Principles Which Should Regulate Literary and Artistic Property in England and Other Countries

Whenwereadol theaheoluterightoftheanthor (a) secular-w 9110.to the fruit of his labour, or of that assumed dedica tion to the public which destroys the absolute right whether by a question-begging epithet we find literary property condemned as a monopoly, and hear Lord Camden exclaim that it is unworthy great authors to trafiic with a dirty bookseller for so much a Sheet of letterpress (b), or learn from Professor Huxley that if there be any foundation for rights of property, the right of an author in a book is as commets and extends as far as the right of any person to any pro perty whatever (c); we have through all the storm to bear in mind that the truth is not the black or white broadly painted by these controversialists, but the humble grey which emerges as the result of long con troversy.

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