Act contained shall prejudice, alter, or effect the Right or Authority of any Person to represent or cause to be represented, at any Place or Places of Dramatic Entertainment whatsoever, any such Production as aforesaid, in all Cases in which the Author thereof or his Assignee shall, previously to the passing of this Act, have given his Consent to or authorized such Representation, but that such sole Liberty of the Author or his Assignee shall be subject to such Right or Authority.

II. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall, during the Continuance of such sole Liberty as aforesaid, contrary to the Intent of this Act, or Right of the Author or his Assignee, represent, or cause to be represented, without the Consent in Writing of the Author or other Proprietor first had and obtained, at any Place of Dramatic Entertainment within the Limits aforesaid, any such Production as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, every such Offender shall be liable for each and every such Representation to the Payment of an Amount not less than Fourty Shillings, or to the full Amount of the Benefit or Advantage arising from such Representation, or the Injury or Loss sustained by the Plaintiff therefrom, whichever shall be the greater Damages, to the Author or other Proprietor of such Production so represented contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, to be recovered, together with Double Costs of Suit, by such Author or other Proprietor, in any Court having Jurisdiction in such Cases in that Part of the said United Kingdom or of the British Dominions in which the Offence shall be committed; and in every such Proceeding where the sole Liberty of such Author or his Assignee as aforesaid shall be subject to such Right or Authority as aforesaid, it shall be sufficient for the Plaintiff to state that he has such sole Liberty, without stating the same to be subject to such Right or Authority, or otherwise mentioning the same.

III. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That all Actions or Proceedings for any Offence or Injury that shall be committed against this Act shall be brought, sued, and commenced within Twelve Calendar Months next after such Offence committed, or else the same shall be void and of no effect.

IV. And be it further enacted, That whenever Authors, Persons, Offenders, or others are spoken of in this Act in the Singular Number or in the Masculine Gender, the same shall extend to any Number of Persons and to either Sex.

2) Das artistische Eigenthum..

8 G. II. cpt. 13.

An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors and Engravers during the Time therein

mentioned.

Whereas divers Persons have, by their own Genius, Industry, Pains, and Expense, invented and engraved, or worked in Mezzotinto, or Chiaro Oscuro, Sets of historical and other Prints, in hopes to have reaped the sole Benefit of their Labours: And whereas Printsellers and other Persons have of late, without the Consent of the Inventors, Designers, and Proprietors of such Prints, frequently taken the Liberty of copying, engraving, and publishing, or causing to be copied, engraved, and published, base Copies of such Works, Designs, and Prints, to the very great Prejudice and Detriment of the Inventors, Designers, and Proprietors thereof: For Remedy thereof, and for preventing such Practices for the future, may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Twenty-fourth Day of June which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirtyfive every Person who shall invent and design, engrave, etch, or work, in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, or from his own Works and Invention shall cause to be designed and engraved, etched, or worked, in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, any historical or other Print or Prints, shall have the sole Right and Liberty of printing and reprinting the same for the Term of Fourteen Years, to commence from the Day of the first publishing thereof, which shall be truly engraved with the Name of the Proprietor on each Plate, and printed on every such Print or Prints; and that if any Printseller or other Person whatsoever, from and after the said Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, within the Time limited by this Act, shall engrave, etch, or work as aforesaid, or in any other Manner copy and sell, or cause to be engraved, etched, or copied and sold, in the whole or in part, by varying, adding to, or diminishing from the main Design, or shall print, reprint, or import for Sale, or cause to be printed, reprinted, or imported for Sale, any such Print or Prints, or any Parts thereof, without the Consent of the Proprietor or Proprietors thereof first had and obtained in Writing signed by him or them respectively in the Presence of Two or more credible Witnesses, or, knowing the same to be so printed or reprinted without the Consent of

the Proprietor or Proprietors, shall publish, sell, or expose to Sale, or otherwise or in any other Manner dispose of, or cause to be published, sold, or exposed to Sale, or otherwise or in any other Manner disposed of, any such Print or Prints, without such Consent first had and obtained as aforesaid, then such Offender or Offenders shall forfeit the Plate or Plates on which such Print or Prints are or shall be copied, and all and every Sheet or Sheets (being Part of or whereon such Print or Prints are or shall be so copied or printed), to the Proprietor or Proprietors of such original Print or Prints, who shall forthwith destroy and damask the same, and further, that every such Offender or Offenders shall forfeit Five Shillings for every Print which shall be found in his, her, or their Custody, either printed or published, and exposed to Sale or otherwise disposed of, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, the one Moiety thereof to the King's most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety thereof to any Person or Persons that shall sue for the same, to be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in which no Wager of Law, Essoign, Privilege, or Protection, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed.

II. Provided nevertheless, That it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons who shall hereafter purchase any Plate or Plates for printing from the original Proprietors thereof to print and reprint from the said Plates without incurring any of the Penalties in this Act mentioned.

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced or brought against any Person or Persons whatsoever for doing or causing to be done anything in pursuance of this Act, the same shall be brought within the Space of Three Months after so doing; and the Defendant and Defendants in such Action or Suit shall or may plead the General Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence; and if upon such Action or Suit a Verdict shall be given for the Defendant or Defendants, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs become nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action or Actions, then the Defendant or Defendants shall have and recover full Costs, for the Recovery whereof he shall have the same Remedy as any other Defendant or Defendants in any other Case hath or have by Law.

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IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced or brought against any Person or Persons for any Offence committed against this Act, the same shall be brought within the Space of Three Months after the Discovery of every such Offence, and not afterwards, anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

V. And whereas John Pine of London, Engraver, doth propose to engrave and publish a Set of Prints copied from several Pieces of Tapestry in the House of Lords, and His Majesty's Wardrobe, and other Drawings relating to the Spanish Invasion in the Year of our Lord One thousand five hundred and eighty-eight: Be it further enacted by the Authority_aforesaid, That the said John Pine shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Act, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, in the same Manner as if the said John Pine had been the Inventor and Designer of the said Prints.

VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be deemed, adjudged; and taken to be a Public Act, and be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and other Persons whatsoever, without specially pleading the same.

7 G. III. cpt. 38.

An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act_made in the Eigth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching, Historical and other Prints; and for vesting in, and securing to, Jane Hogarth Widow, the Property in certain Prints.

Whereas an Act of Parliament passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching, Historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors and Engravers, during the Time therein mentioned, has been found ineffectual for the Purposes thereby intended; be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of January, One thousand seven hundred and sixty seven, all and every Person and Persons who shall invent or design, engrave, etch, or work in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, or, from his own Work, Design, or Invention, shall cause or procure to be designed, engraved, etched, or worked in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, any Historical Print or Prints, or any Print or Prints of any Portrait, Conversation, Landscape or Architecture, Map, Chart, or Plan, or any other Print or Prints whatsoever, shall have, and are hereby declared to have, the Benefit and Protection of the said Act and this Act, under the Restrictions and Limitations herein after-mentioned.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said First Day of January, One thousand seven

hundred and sixty seven, all and every Person and Persons who shall engrave, etch, or work in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, or cause to be engraved, etched or worked, any Print, taken from 1 any Picture, Drawing, Model, or Sculpture, either ancient or modern, shall have, and are hereby declared to have, the Benefit and Protection of the said Act, and this Act, for the Term herein after-mentioned, in like Manner, as if such Print had been graved or drawn from the Original Design of such Graver, Etcher, or Draftsman; and if any Perrson shall engrave, print, and publish, or import for Sale, any Copy of any such Print, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this and the said former Act, every such Person shall be liable to the Penalties contained in the said Act, to be recovered as therein and herein after is mentioned.

And whereas William Hogarth, late of the City of Westminster, Painter and Graver, did etch and engrave, and cause to be etched and engraved, several Prints from his own Invention and Design, the Property and sole Right of vending all such Prints, being secured to him the said William Hogarth for the Term of Fourteen Years from their first Publication, by the said former Act of Parliament; which said Property, by his last Will, became vested in his Widow and Executrix: And whereas since the first Publication of several of the said Prints, the Term of Fourteen Years is expired, and several base Copies of the same have been since printed and published, whereby the Sale of the Originals has been considerably lessened, to the great Detriment of the said Widow and Executrix: And whereas since the Publication of others of the said Prints, the Term of Fourteen Years is now near expiring; be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Jane Hogarth, Widow and Executrix of the said William Hogarth, shall have the sole Right and Liberty of printing and reprinting all the said Prints, Etchings, and Engravings, of the Design and Invention of the said William Hogarth, for and during the Term of Twenty Years, to commence from the said First Day of January, One thousand seven hundred and sixty seven; and that all and everey Person and Persons who shall at any Time hereafter, before the Expiration of the said Term of Twenty Years, engrave, etch, or work in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, or otherwise copy, sell, or expose to Sale, or cause or procure to be etched, engraved, or worked in Mezzotinto or Chiaro Oscuro, any of the said Works of the said William Hogarth, shall be liable to the Penalties and Forfeitures contained in this and the said former Act of Parliament; to be recovered in like Manner as in and by this and the said former Act are given, directed, and appointed.

Provided nevertheless, That the Proprietor or Proprietors of such of the Copies of the said William Hogarth's Works, which have been copied and printed, and exposed to Sale, after the Expiration of the Term of Fourteen Years from the Time of their first Publication by the said William Hogarth, and before the said