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On Copyright in Design in Art and Manufactures
On Copyright in Design in Art and Manufactures Author:Thomas Turner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: F. Elsworth Subjects: Copyright Industrial property Design protection Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book... more » you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: w H A H P. H t APPENDIX. 8 Geo. II. c. 13. An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors and Engravers during the Time therein mentioned. Whereas divers persons have by their own genius and industry, pains and expense, invented and engraved, or worked in mezzotinto or chiaro oscuro, sets of historical or other prints, in hopes to have reaped the sole benefit of their labours : and whereas printsellers and other persons have of late, without the consent of the inventors, designers and proprietors of such prints, frequently taken the liberty of copying, engraving and publishing, or caused to be copied, engraved and published, base copies of such works, designs and prints, to the very great prejudice and detriment of the inventors, designers and proprietors thereof; for remedy thereof and for preventing such practices for the future, may it please your majesty that it be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, every person who shall invent and design, engrave, etch or work in mezzotinto or chiaro oscuro, or from his own works and inventions shall cause to be designed and engraved, etched o...« less