THE LAW

RELATING TO

WORKS OF LITERATURE AND ART.

Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

RELATING TO

Works of Literature and Art:

EMBRACING THE

LAW OF COPYRIGHT,

THE

LAW RELATING TO NEWSPAPERS,

THE

LAW RELATING TO CONTRACTS BETWEEN AUTHORS,
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, &c.

AND THE

LAW OF LIBEL.

WITH THE STATUTES RELATING THERETO,

FORMS OF AGREEMENTS BETWEEN AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, &c.
AND FORMS OF PLEADINGS.

BY JOHN SHORTT, LL.B.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

"Potius ignoratio juris litigiosa est, quam scientia.”

Cic. De Leg. lib. i. 6.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

REEVES & TURNER,

100, CHANCERY LANE, AND CAREY STREET.

Law Publishers.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN DUKE, BARON COLERIDGE,

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND,

THE

ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR, GRACEFUL ORATOR,

AND WIDE AND LIBERAL THINKER,

WHO WORTHILY INHERITS

A NAME ILLUSTRIOUS IN THE REALMS

OF

LAW, LITERATURE AND ART,

THIS EDITION OF THE

Law relating to Works of Literature and Art

IS

(WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION)

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.