"Copyright" Quotes from Famous Books
... "Common Sense". Thus Paine was as lucky in his time of publication as in his choice of a subject. All contemporaries admit that the pamphlet produced a prodigious effect. Paine himself says,—"The success it met with was beyond anything since the invention of printing. I gave the copyright up to every State in the Union, and the demand ran to not less than one hundred thousand copies." The authorship was attributed to Dr. Franklin, to Samuel ... — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... translated into English, in 1885, by an American lady, Mrs. F. Kelley Wischnewetzky, and published in the following year in New York. The American edition being as good as exhausted, and having never been extensively circulated on this side of the Atlantic, the present English copyright edition is brought out with the full consent ... — The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels
... not to say a little) of the popular arranger of the charming 'When the Swallows hasten Home.' The singular merits of Theodore Oesten have not escaped the vigilant eye of her Majesty's music publishers, the Messrs. Robert Cocks & Co. having secured, as we are informed, the exclusive copyright of his works for this country."—Vide ... — Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 • Various
... was produced from Space Science Fiction May 1952. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this ... — To Each His Star • Bryce Walton
... Shelley, and Keats, for instance, is a favorite combination). Even bardlings like Pollok enjoy a large number of readers and editions. Nor is there—notwithstanding the much-complained-of absence of an international copyright law—any deficiency of home supply for the market. Writing English verses, indeed, is as much a part of an American's education, as writing Latin verses is of an Englishman's; recited "poems" always holding a prominent ... — Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
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