The French booktrade and the 'permission simple' of 1777
In 1777 a series of royal decrees heralded the restructuring of the French booktrade. An important innovation was the creation of a public domain for certain kinds of books whose <em>privilège</em> (or ‘copyright’) had expired. In order not to relinquish control over a vast category of b...
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Voltaire Foundation
2017
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