02293cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000360011324500250014926400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000310036050802140039152011260060553400560173165300140178765300420180185600620184385600430190599900190194876806UtSlPG20260610134758.0mcr n260607r20251916utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aKD1 aWordsworth, William,d1770-185014aThe law of copyright 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-09-03  aCharlene Taylor, Quentin Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  a"The law of copyright by William Wordsworth" is a short open letter and pamphlet on copyright law written in the early Victorian era. It advocates reform of literary property, supporting a parliamentary effort to extend authors’ rights and arguing that writers hold an enduring property interest in their works.  An editor’s note frames the piece as a newspaper letter backing Serjeant Talfourd’s bill and explains its later rediscovery. The main text is a dignified appeal from Rydal Mount: the poet declines to organize a petition, believing Parliament should recognize the obvious justice of the cause, but publicly declares firm support for longer protection. He criticizes the opposition from printers and publishers, asserts that common law upholds an author’s perpetual property, and rejects comparisons between literature and patentable inventions. Speaking for the whole class of writers—and mindful of heirs—he urges restoration of their rights and closes with confidence that justice will ultimately prevail and gratitude to those advancing the reform. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Thomas J. Wise, 1916  aCopyright  aTalfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-18544 uhttps://archive.org/details/lawofcopyright00word/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76806  c117531d117531