Copyright and Patent Laws of the United States, 1790 to 1866

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Excerpt from Copyright and Patent Laws of the United States, 1790 to 1866: With Notes of Judicial Decisions Thereunder and Forms and IndexesIN the United States, property in Copyright and in Patents for Inventions is created by, and held solely under laws passed by the General Government. Previous to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, in 1789, the several States had granted exclusive rights to authors and inventors, but that instrument gave to Congress power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries and the States can now perform no act in respect thereto, or none not in harmony with, and subordinate to, the superior power of Congress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.