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Definition of Right of first publication
1. Noun. A document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work.
Generic synonyms: Legal Right, Document, Papers, Written Document
Derivative terms: Copyright
Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Of First Publication
Literary usage of Right of first publication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1873)
"This common-law right " of first publication" is sometimes spoken of as " copyright
before publication," while the right to multiply copies secured by ..."
2. Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the by American Bar Association (1907)
"The common law right of first publication and its incident of restricted publication
were sufficient for the protection of author? prior to the invention of ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1887)
"If it had been intended to deprive him of the advantage of the right of first
publication, which he then enjoyed, and the enjoyment ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"... patent-right.5 The common-law right "of first publication" is sometimes spoken
of as "copyright before publication," while the right to multiply copies ..."
5. A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright: In the United Kingdom and the by Evan James MacGillivray (1902)
"The author and his assignees have the right of first publication; this right at
common ... Only one judge held that there was no right of first publication. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Copyright and Literary Property by William Benjamin Hale (1917)
"[a] "Copyright before publication," or the common-law right of first publication,
is the exclusive privilege of first publishing any original material ..."
7. A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright: In the United Kingdom and the by Evan James Macgillivray (1902)
"Only one judge held that there was no right of first publication. In Prince Albertv.
Strange* Lord Cottenham, LC, considered the law as well settled and ..."
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