单词 | stationers' hall |
释义 | > as lemmasStationers' Hall Stationers' Hall n. the building in which the business of the Company of Stationers is transacted, and in which works were formerly registered for copyright.Registration at Stationers' Hall began in 1557, and until the Copyright Act of 1710 (the ‘Statute of Anne’), only a member of the Company could register a work. The Copyright Act of 1842 provided that no action for breach of copyright could be brought unless the work had been entered in the Stationers' Register. This rule was abolished under the Copyright Act of 1911, although the law was not fully implemented until 1923. Registration of new works at Stationers' Hall ceased in 2000.Since 1670 the Company has been located in Ave Maria Street in the City of London. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > performing or publishing rights > copyright > place where register kept Stationers' Hall1566 1566 Ordinances for Reformation Printing of Bookes (?1570) All Bookes to be so forfaited, shall be brought into the Stationers hall in London. 1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 168 It was doubtlesse printed by stealth in a Corner,..its entry not being extant in the Stationers-Hall. 1764 R. Lloyd Capricious Lovers (verso title page) This Opera is entered at Stationers-Hall, and whoever presumes to print the Songs, or any Part of it, will be prosecuted by the Proprietors. 1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Nov. 748/2 ‘Almanac-day’ at Stationers' Hall. 1911 Cassell's Cycl. Photogr. 148/1 Under the Copyright Act there is no need that a photograph which has been registered at Stationers' Hall should be marked ‘copyright’. 2003 M. Kassler C. E. Horn's Mem. Father & Self App. 111 The date of entry of a work at Stationers' Hall can be presumed to be its date of publication. < as lemmas |
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