Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8



SEE ALSO:

Pope v. Curl, 26 Eng. Rep. 608 (Ch. 1741)

Miller v. Taylor, 4 Burr. 2303, 2310--2407 (K.B. 1769)

Donaldsons v. Becket, 4 Burr. 2408--17 (H.L. 1774)

Universities Copyright Act, 15 Geo. 3, c. 53 (1775)

Thomas Paine, An Act for Incorporating the American Philosophical Society, 1780, Life 4:43--46

Noah Webster to James Madison, 5 July 1784, Madison Papers 8:96

George Washington, First Annual Address, 8 Jan. 1790, Richardson 1:66

An Act to Promote the Progress of the Useful Arts, 10 Apr. 1790, 1 Stat. 109

An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of Such Copies, 31 May 1790, 1 Stat. 124

Nichols v. Ruggles, 3 Day 145 (Conn. 1808)

Livingston v. Van Ingen, 9 Johns. R. 507 (N.Y. 1812)

Evans v. Robinson, 8 Fed. Cas. 886, no. 4,571 (C.C.D.Md. 1813)

Evans v. Jordan, 9 Cranch 199 (1815)

Evans v. Eaton, 3 Wheat. 454 (1818)

Evans v. Eaton, 7 Wheat. 356 (1822)

Ewer v. Coxe, 8 Fed. Cas. 917, no. 4,584 (C.C.E.D.Pa. 1824)

Thomas Jackson Oakley, Thomas Addis Emmet, & William Wirt, Arguments before the Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1 (1824)

Pennock v. Dialogue, 2 Pet. 1 (1829)

Noah Webster, Origins of the Copy-Right Laws in the United States, 1831, Political Papers 173--77

Grant v. Raymond, 6 Pet. 218 (1832)


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