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    "-S Mr. H. C. Baird On Copyright Nationa...

    m ^~ surely ct . no American - author would care much to ' contradict' Mr . Baird ' s affirmation in this respe Having discussed at great length the points we have briefly touchedMr . Baird mounts

    , his to mankind favourite , becom hobby e -horse public and propert tells y us / once This more brilliant that idea * ideas , we , the are moment informed they , was are ori announced ginated in hia about had thought that not indebted to

    Philadelpthirty years ago . We we were a philadel hundred p years hian sage ago when for thi Eng s enli lish ghtenme lawyers nt— tried surely to convince some such Lord nonsense Mansfield was talked that copyri more gh than t was a this idea had become blic ' before Philadelhia oriin

    not ated property itbut — any if way so , it is ii question not * now pu wort property h pursuing long . If it were not true p that g ' a - _ _ _ ^^^_ _ _ convinced ; against his will is of ¦ the ¦ same opinion still * Mr . Baird would find sufficient ¦

    man material ^^ . ^^ ^ . ^— ^^ . ^^ to ^^ ^^^ . ^^^ ^^^ conv ^^^^ ^^^ Y ^^^ b ince ^^^^^^^^^^^ fc ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ him "I ™«™ ~^^* ^ ^^ ^^^ - that i li ^ —™ » — — he - _ 1 rw- ~— — is « ^— not _ i ~— ^ infallible * _ ~~ 11 ~— ^— « ^^ 1 ™ 1 ^ in «^ — ^—^ — Professor Tk — — ™ . <• ^ ° " ™~ — — — , v Lounsbury TT — — — 1 ~~ — - — » ' s e x ce — ll 11 - ent ^ ^ . _ ^— «_ rep ~~ — l y to * _ _ ^^^ MrHCLea —' s — * O— pen _ _ Lett _ er' which appeared 4 in the New York Tribune of February 25 . It is

    h Amer JJLX owever 11 . - * - * i * - can . , . l — amus * aws - - — " - ~ - i ——— ing n pract j _ ^ to i note ce —¦ , ' b the y quoting ^ way ^ in an - , which instance Mr — in . Baird which - an illustrates en "terprising * ' * the *^ * author absurdity V ' mad of e the up , _ . _ <« * 1 aid ^ of scissors and . 4 * fd ____ ITS lish ••• book » •» 1 d i h

    en a b ioTed ook by copyri the invaluable ght on said work The , not only for declined the paste first , to term meet sun of this 28 y Eng ears , but insisted author s , an on a d ereupo renewal d n

    ¦ ¦¦ and for —— — the § so ^^ the period valuable of ¦ 14 r ^ years work — ^^ — —— . fell " — ^ ^ — out — — publisher ¦ of — print — — and — — ^^ —^ the — stereot — — — ype enterprising plates were rendered — — ' s valueless emans ,

    ¦ Mr « the Baird ^ ^ poor ^^ jk ^^ ^^^ insist v p **» ^ ublisher »^^»^ *^» s »^» ^ upon ^^ . what - It ~ - is no upon one the but possibility a , Philadel —¦ p of hian such Obstru ^ w L a barefaced — L ctionist ____ — woul swindle d dream as th of is in that

    sist-Congress ing —^ pj . j viz ^^ ^ % JB ^ . , ^_ i to ^ that ^» ^ ^ amend *^^ ¦ * * e ^* before ^ ^** , V ^ our ^^ ^ - ^ ^ copyri " ^ system ' ^ ^^ ^ ght of —— is copyri — extended — ' ^ — g ht — laws — to ~— - — — — non » to ~^ r — r— the -resident " end — — . . foreigners _ _ , it is incumbent on i

    —in * 1 whole . That or the in part author —of or the proprietor proposed ¦ of publication a book , & c , be at first least requ stat ire e d to here prove in h th e c or lai g inality

    proprietors before ^^^ ^ ^ a hi ^^ copyri ^ fc p ^^ , ^^ and ^ fc ^ g *»^ ht that w ^ ¦ * be ^^ ^ examin issued ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ , e and rs — be ^ th m- ^ provided ^^ at ^^ ^ — the ^ f * ™ fee ^— ^^ —~ by ^^ be law — increased — whose , — - — — dut — sufficientl — y it shall y b to cover ma — k the e ex additional aminat ion

    expense ' 2 . That ; or , some easy and inexpensive legal means be provided for testing the validity of a copy ' Until ght — these or both law Xf * . s are V < A amended «^»» »»> - / it will ft be neither * VA &\^ A ¦ rihtnor safe to ¦» extend the ^

    privileges ^ J ^^ of UlXvDW their provisions f f % J . ^^ . AAV to . forei ^ r ^^ J , gners *** , for - ^ ^* we ¦•¦ V ^* - can . « accept . g >^ *¦• •* , proper \ no \~ guarantee , - **» . ^— of ^^ their -W ^^ —^ w - ^^ amend m— - ™ v <_ — " mentshort of the actual amendment itself . '

    off Thus on , an , American because an publisher American as ci his tizen own appropr the above iates a elaborate n English machinery author ' s material must be , set and in passes motion it

    b Bai e fore rd ^» a ^ says a ^ non ^ V W 9 * r - of V res ^ ^ k the V id »»^»^ ent ^ American ^ « k ** A fore ^^^ k > 4 b ** " i gners ^ »* m copyri ^^ - * rf- » - * - w a ^^ re -M ght ^ to ^ - ^ laws v enj a . v - - ~ oy , that - ^ ^ — the — " — — * they blessings — ¦ — * are amongst of the f j - — — American the — — — — most . _ . absurd copyri _ . g that ht law have . ever Mr .

    t been he above enacted clauses by an wou enl ld ig ht ene re d d uce ernment their ab sur ' ' Our dity readers or 9 add to may their jud ge d for om . themselves Is it not poss how ibl far

    even resident for Mr fore . i Baird gner , the to imag said ine forei that gner when will this take care absurd that American such enterprising law is extended citizens to as the the non one - mentioned do not appropriate his matter in the described ? Such protection may safely

    b after e lef b to suc copyr h a ig bsurd ht owners ' clauses who in will an look Act as after those themselves way which he insists far better than . Mr they . Baird will must be looked take y upon

    gone comfort the imagination by to ; t himself hat influence the for speciousness the is influence now on of the which its wane arguments his ; t Philadel he glamour and phian the of hollowness association its past deeds of has its no wielded patriotism longer in dazzles hav days e

    I been ' almight 1 seen ^ y 7 do ^^ throug V ^* llars JL ^ JW A ; ' h w »• ; hich * and » A ^^ Jk ^ have A after Jk *^ » ^^ been K all ^ ^^ ^»* ^^ perhaps expended ^^ * ^ m-r ^ r ^^ -w » it *^ - » will in * fc . ^^ the w ^ shortl ^ - ** r- education -w -w ^ - — y - *^ —« be ¦—^ ¦ - » . — d iscovere of - — - — the — ¦ — American d t h at - — t he peop f — mi — ^ ll le ions have _ - o f

    taug prod h uced t them good ; an fruit d th b y resu induc lt , ing we a t f rust ull , recognition will be the p f assing the ri of ghts Mr of . Dorsheimer the authors ' s who exce have llent International

    Copyright Bill . E . M . * Wo notice in the Publishers' Weekly of the 15 th ultthat MrSamuel EDawson suggests

    . . . another motive for the speedy settlement of this question—viz ., that The English Government , by a 4 very -J "sli »> £ g , ht ni < chan UlliUJ ge gU in 111 the L 11 W present JJ ltJaCUL . law JirlW , , mi IllJ ^ g llU ht assimilate OOD 1 I 11 llil . LV the HID XiUgllOll English to lf the t » i * o J Ameri £ * . in . i *; x ivct can u law ^ u n , , and uuu thus lis « . ^ j with " » i . » -

    Dorsheimer tne raw lex fro talion m American is is hard authors ly likel the y very t » be exceptional taken by ad the vantage English s which Government they now be , enj althoug oy . * h This doubtless it wi app th lication this , if view this of

    Bill fails , a good deal of pressure may reasonably bo expected to put upon . The Index viVi Societywith the objectB of which have than bliutl vfoccasion /» d

    " ¦ " - »»* . A KJWiltJLV , W 1 . 11 I L > A 1 CJ IJ MJ CUIjCS * J 1 . W 1 UU 11 we * ¥ O XlthWJ on KJRM . more llM . KJi . XJ one »* Vy v ^\^^«* h »» - »* ji , expresse vajwuw >» o jne ur Index cordial to sympath the Gentleman y , announces ' Magazine that it is W now hen in the a scheme position was to commence taken in hand the Mr publication JRHenry of

    s . , . . * arrar generously placed his services at the disposal of the Council , and has since presented : " ° complete t Index of the first fifty years , a work of very considerable labour . Mr collated . Farrar has the

    * j wq *> ndon deft grea Library eta pa arising ins cop to ies from make of the the the m want agazine entries of with uniformity thoroug those hl in y in trustwort the the British various hy Museum , editions and has Library care Each fu so ll member y as to minimise of the

    * ° ciot ouDscribe y is to have a showa large- that paper each edition name of the ' work line in return for his annual . subscription , and to

    ^ - — ^^® d to ra us the price of the Index from has 1731 a -80 will . be The £ 1 . surname 11 * . tki . is Tne printed specimen in heavy page

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1884, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041884/page/5/