| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...that he was entitled to stop the publication of them by a printer into whose hands they had fallen. If the copy belongs to an author after publication,...does not belong to him after, where is the common law which says there is such a property before ? All the metaphysical subtleties from the nature of the... | |
| David Hume - Philosophers - 1888 - 486 pages
...upon them ; no tokens of a particular proprietor.' Ib. p. 2366. To this Lord Mansfield replied : — ' If the copy belongs to an Author after publication,...is such a property before " ? All the metaphysical subtilties from the nature of the thing may be equally objected to the property before. It is incorporeal... | |
| John Henry Wigmore - Torts - 1912 - 1132 pages
...filled with judges of unnnpai innfthlp intporitv pminpnt. tnlpnts and distintrnishpd fthilitips. — I use the word "copy," in the technical sense in which..."there is such a property before"? All the metaphysical subtilities from the nature of the thing, mav be equally objected to the propertv before. It is incorporeal... | |
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