Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Dear Sir:--You ask for information calculated to enable you to act understandingly in reference to the international copyright treaty now awaiting the action of the Senate. The subject is an important one, more so, as I think, than is commonly supposed, and being very glad to...
Dear Sir:--You ask for information calculated to enable you to act understandingly in reference to the international copyright treaty now awaiting the action of the Senate. The...
2. Chapter 2Let us suppose, now, that you should move, in the Senate, a resolution looking to the establishment of the exclusive right of making known the facts, or ideas, that might be bro...
3. Chapter 3We are assured that justice requires the admission of foreign authors to the privilege of copyright, and in support of the claim that she presents are frequently informed of the...
4. Chapter 4Arrived in England, we find there everywhere the same tendency towards centralization. Of the 200,000 small landed proprietors of the days of Adam Smith but few remain, and of e...
5. Chapter 5Our system is based upon an idea directly the reverse of the one on which rests the English system--that of decentralization; and we may now study its effects as shown in the de...
6. Chapter 6We have commenced the erection of a great literary and scientific edifice. The foundation is already broad, deep, and well laid, but it is seen to increase in breadth, depth, an...