Présentation de l'éditeur
The compiler preaenta the material, more and less valuable, that is piled up in the following pages not as a book to be read through, bat only as a depot in which diligent and irksome search for information on two important subjects will be rewarded. Bills on the two cognate subjects of copyright and patent-right are soon to engage the attention of Parliament. These subjects happily have never been brought into the arena of party strife. Yet on this account they have failed to become well understood. Views favoured in this compilation are, if superficial appearance is to be trusted, not entertained generally. Nevertheless they receive support, not in this country only but also abroad. They concern the people far more than most persons suppose. Vital national rights and liberties are being seriously and dangerously compromised (public opinion has already got a twist) through the persistent and organised efforts of associations and publications which espouse the cause of the directly interested few, as if it were at the same time the cause of the many. There is a certain analogy between the two monopolies. A like they have been spared or instituted when other kinds of exclusive privilege were condemned and abandoned by all statesmen, IF or both has been recently claimed the rank of intellectual property not merely ex lege but ex deidio Jusliiiae. But there is one broad distinction between them. Copyright concerns subject-matter, the original and sole creation of which %an be easily established.
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