Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in BooksWhether this judicial opinion as to the existence at Common Law of perpetual Oopy right in an author and his assigns was sound may well be doubted, and possibly if the House of Lords had held in Donaldson v. Becket that perpetual Copyright had survived Queen Anne, an Act of Parliament would, sooner or later, have been passed curtailing the rights Of authors. But how annoying, how distressing, to have evolution artificially arrested and so interesting a question sti¿ed by an ignorant Legislature, set in motion not by an irate populace clamouring for cheap books (as a generation later they were to clamour for cheap gin), but by the authors and their proprietors, the booksellers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.