Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Popular Dramas, as Performed at the Metropolitan Theatres
This same publisher is now purchasing dramatic copy rights of any bookseller, possessing and willing to part with them, that they may'be added to his stock, and he become further enriched; thus, the poor author may some day be wanting a dinner, whilst his fortunate pub lisher may be rattling past him in a carriage of the author's purchasing. The decision of the Court may also create a strange anomaly. By the present law of copy right, the exclusive right to print departs from the pub lisher in eight-and-twenty years after the first publica tion of a work; now, though any person may then print such work, the permission to act, it is presumed, is to continue with the original publisfier during Iaz's life, and to his heirs, for twenty-eight years from the first repre sentation of such plays, in the event of his demise.
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