Literary property therefore is not a natural right, but a conventional one.
In all letters then there is a literary property in the writer which entitles him or his executors to prohibit any publication without his consent, express or implied.
The history of literary property in this country might form as ludicrous a narrative as Lucian's "true history.
There seems indeed to be no indication of author's rights or literary property in Greek or earlier literatures.
Cicero in his letters indicates that there was some notion of literary property, and it is probable that some kind of payment was made to authors.
The question of Literary Property is this day before the Lords[798].
We shall have made some kittle questions of literary property amongst us.
When our deputies write a law of literary property by the side of a law which opens a large breach in the custom-house they contradict themselves, indeed, and pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
In consequence of literary property, social and individual interests are perpetually in conflict.
The existence of literary property," says Drone, "is traced back by record to 1558, when an entry of copies appears in the register of the Company of Stationers of London.
These pamphlet series have, however, done a most important service in pointing out the absurdity of the present condition of literary property, and in emphasizing the need of an international copyright law.
Drone says: "In the United States the authorities have been divided not less than in England regarding the origin and nature of literary property.
It was a strange idea that occurred to the Chambers four years ago,-- that of making a law on literary property!
This I say not to defend Hegel, for whose elaborate theory of universals I hold in no wise a brief, but simply in the cause of literary property-rights.
Royce's false personal accusation of "sinning against the most obvious demands of literary property-rights"?
Yet in the volume before us we find all this pretentious speech of an 'American' theory, and discover our author wholly unaware that he is sinning against the most obvious demands of literary property-rights.
Sir Joseph Yates gets a sound drubbing from the same sturdy avenger of literary property, for his share in the celebrated case of Millar versus Taylor, as given in Burrow's Reports.
It is conceded that the comity of nations may furnish grounds for a fair consideration of what is policy; but it is denied that moral obligation invests the British author with any claim to literary property in America.
With this consideration, I now again address you, intending to preserve that propriety of thought and speech, which on the subject of literary property, I feel due to the future Great Unknown of Southern Britain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literary property" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
