Observations on Extension of Protection of Copyright of Designs; With a View to the Improvement of British Taste Including the ACT Passed 10th August, ... to Which Are Added Legal and Practical No - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Example set by France in cultivating taste should be followed by Britain--Advances being made in manufactures by foreign countries, an additional reason for improving British taste--Leading arguments of opponents to extension of protection stated and remarked on--Expediency of opening new markets and improving Eastern commerce. Knowledge in such matters as are the subject of our present consideration must be gained by one or more of three means--accident, experiment, or experience. Our neighbours, upwards of a century ago, hit upon Copyright for encouraging their Designs as applied to manufactures: they tried the experiment, and benefiting thereby, passed stringent laws for enforcing the right of proprietors and punishing offenders. Of the experience thus afforded to us, ought not Britain, the greatest manufacturing and commercial nation in the world, to avail itself? Can any of the advantages possessed by this NECESSITY OF IMPROVING BRITISH TASTE. 43 country over all others in its capital, machinery, facilities of production, rapidity of transport, command of markets, and unsurpassed industry and enterprize, act otherwise than as agents in assisting us to compete with other countries in the excellence and refinement of taste, provided due encouragement and protection be given to the exercise of that faculty of the mind? No! reason will declare that just in proportion to our advantages being great, our progression in taste will be certain and rapid from the moment that a feeling of security in the property in Designs is acquired by the manufacturers and inventors. Other nations are doubtless making advances in their manufactures. All European manufacturing countries are improving in their various processes, and a knowledge of this fact makes i...
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