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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition, by Henry C. Carey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition Author: Henry C. Carey Release Date: December 7, 2004 [EBook #14295] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT *** Produced by A Project Gutenberg Volunteer LETTERS ON INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT: BY H. C. CAREY, AUTHOR OF "PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE," ETC. ETC. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON, 459 BROOME STREET. 1868. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. PREFACE. At the date, now fourteen years since, of the first publication of these letters, the important case of authors _versus_ readers--makers of books _versus_ consumers of facts and ideas--had for several years been again on trial in the high court of the people. But few years previously the same plaintiffs had obtained a verdict giving large extension of _time_ to the monopoly privileges they had so long enjoyed. Not content therewith, they now claimed greater _space_, desiring to have those privileges so extended as to include within their domain the vast population of the British Empire. To that hour no one had appeared before the court on the part of the defendants, prepared seriously to question the plaintiffs' assertion to the effect that literary property stood on the same precise footing, and as much demanded perpetual and universal recognition, as property in a house, a mine, a farm, or a ship. As a consequence of failure in this respect there prevailed, and most especially throughout the Eastern States, a general impression that there was really but one side to the question; that the cause of the plaintiffs was that of truth; that in the past might had triumphed over right; that, however doubtful might be the expediency of making a decree to that effect, there could be little doubt that justice would thereby be done; and that, while rejecting as wholly _inexpedient_ the idea of perpetuity, there could be but slight objection to so far recognizing that of univ
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