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1800-1900
This
page highlights key events in Australian and overseas
intellectual property law and practice from 1800 to 1900.
It covers -
It supplements the Intellectual Property guide page
regarding Australia and the separate profile
on Australian court and tribunal decisions regarding copyright.
Context is provided by the multi-page communications &
media timeline on this site.
1800
1806
Baden enacts first German copyright law
1806 French Design law
1814 English Copyright Act codifies "long-standing practices"
1814 UK Sculpture Copyright Act replaces 1798 'sculpture'
legislation
1815 Wordsworth's Essay, Supplementary to the Preface
on authorial genius
1817 Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy
& Taxation
1817 Say's Catechism of Political Economy
1821 Shelley's Defence of Poetry declares the imagination
rather than imitation to be the source of art
1831 revised US copyright law extended protection to "musical
compositions in traditional notation"
1833
1833 UK Dramatic Copyright Act (Bulwer-Lytton
Act) protects performing right in dramatic works
1835 US Wheaton v Peters: ruling that limited-term
copyright nullifies any common-law right to intellectual
property in perpetuity
1836 US Patent Office established
1837 Société des gens de lettres founded in France
1837 Prussian Gesetz zum Schutze des Eigenthums an
Werken der Wissenschaft und Kunst in Nachdruck und Nachbildung
1838 UK International Copyright Act 1838
1841 Folsom v Marsh is landmark ruling on fair
use in the US
1842 US industrial property regime extended to designs
1842 UK Literary Copyright Act provides authors
with lifetime plus 7 years protection
1842 UK legislation extended to cover overseas music (primarily
that from sheet music publishers in France and parts of
Germany)
1846 Nion's Droit civils des auteurs, artistes et
inventeurs is first published use of term 'intellectual
property' ('propriete intellectuelle')?
1847 Bourget, Parizot and Henrion successfully sue Paris
cafe for music royalties
1850
1850 Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de
Musique (SACEM) established in France as first true copyright
collecting society
1852 Patent Law Amendment Act (UK) launches modern
patent regime
1857 trademark laws enacted in France
1862 UK Fine Arts Copyright Act
1862 UK Merchandise Marks Act 1862
1863 Merchandise Marks Act in South Australia
1863 decision in Gambart v Ball in UK (reaffirmed
by Graves v Ashford in 1867) holds that unauthorised
photograph of painting infringes copyright in painting
1864 Merchandise Marks Acts in Victoria, Queensland and
Tasmania
1865
1865 Merchandise Marks Act in NSW
1865 US extends copyright protection to photographs
1867 German national legislature extends duration of copyright
to life plus 30 years
1870
US copyright law prohibits unauthorized translations and
dramatizations of works published by US publishers (UK
and other overseas publishers/authors aren't protected
and piracy by Harper Bros causes major friction)
1870 German Gesetz betr. das Urheberrecht an Schriftwerken,
Abbildungen, musikalischen Kompositionen und dramatischen
Werken
1870 first US trademark granted to Averill Paints
1872 Telegraphic Copyright legislation in Victoria provides
short-term protection for telegraphic news services and
publishers
1873 Congress for Patent Reform in Vienna
1874 national trademarks legislation in Germany
1874 Nestle registers first trademark in Hong Kong
1875 UK Royal Commission on strengthened copyright protection
1875 Trade Marks Registration Act 1875 (UK)
1875 Bass brewery registers red triangle logo as first
mark under UK registration scheme
1876 Trade Marks Act 1876 in Victoria
1878 International Trademark Association (INTA) founded
in US
1883
1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property (eg patents)
1883 Patents, Designs & Trademarks Act 1883
(UK)
1883 International Literary Association produces draft
international copyright agreement
1883 office of Comptroller General of Patents established
in UK
1884 Trademark Law in Japan
1884 pharmaceutical company registers first trademark
in Japan
1884 Designs & Trade Marks Act 1884 (WA)
1884 UK Society of Authors founded
1884 US Supreme Court rules that photographs protected
by copyright
1886
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary &
Industrial Works (Berne) -
US did not participate
1887 first Japanese copyright law
1888 Pan-American agreement on international copyright
(US did not participate)
1891 Chace Act is first US international copyright agreement,
extending limited protection on a bilateral basis to selected
countries (eg UK and France)
1891 Madrid Agreement on Trade Marks
1891 Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive
Indication of Source of Goods ( 'Indication of Source'
Agreement)
1893 United International Bureaux for the Protection of
Intellectual Property (BIRPI)
1899 Canadian Society of Authors founded
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