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| Title | The Laws of Copyright: An Examination of the Principles which Should Regulate Literary and Artistic Property in England and Other Countries : Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1882, Revised and Enlarged Issues 34508-34511 of 19th-century legal treatises |
| Author | Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 335 pages |
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