Two Saints In First Copyright Action
“The first recorded copyright action in Great Britain must surely be that in the Court of the High King at Tara between those two scholars and bibliophiles, both afterwards saints, Finnen of Moville, and Columbia. Columbia had secretly copied a valuable manuscript belonging to his old master, who gained judgment against him with an order for the delivery of the infringing copy, for, ran the decision, “to every cow its calf and to every book its copy.” The above quotation is from the article on copyright in “The Author’s and Writer’s Who’s Who,” the first post-war edition of which has been published in England. It is an invaluable reference book. The biographical section gives a “Who’s Who” of 13,000 authors, editors, publishers and journalists, while the Directory Section lists 500 Public Relations Officers—a unique feature and immensely useful-
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 60, 7 November 1949, Page 2
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144Two Saints In First Copyright Action Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 60, 7 November 1949, Page 2
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