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100	1		_aWordsworth, William, _d1770-1850
245	1	4	_aThe law of copyright
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-03
508			_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.)
520			_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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Thomas J. Wise, 1916
653			_aCopyright
653			_aTalfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/lawofcopyright00word/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76806
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