Record #2342 (edit record; developers only)

Date: 1774

Event:

Donaldson v. Becket: the decision made in Millar v. Taylor is here reversed -- copyrights are now seen as more like patents, and hence of limited duration, as conceived in the Statute of Queen Anne.

Notes: John Feather Rose, Mark. “The Author as Proprietor: Donaldson vs. Becket and the Genealogy of Modern Authorship.” Representations. 23 (1988): 51-85 

Topics:

*copyright  

Work Title

The Seasons 

Poem 

Links for James Thomson:

Selected Poetry of James Thomson (1700-1748) (Includes 3 complete texts and 3 excerpts (2 of which are from the The Seasons.)

The Castle of Indolence: Canto I (Complete hypertext transcription of James Thomson's work.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

James Thomson, "Rule Brittania" (Full HTML version of the text.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

 

   

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1/3/2003


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