Editing Statute of Anne (section)

===Expansion and repeal===
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| short_title           = Copyright Act 1814
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| long_title            = An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of Printed Books, to the Authors of such Books or their Assigns.
| year                  = 1814
| citation              = [[54 Geo. 3]]. c. 156
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[[File:Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford by Nathaniel Dance, (later Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt).jpg|thumb|[[Frederick North, Lord North|Lord North]], who expanded the provisions of the Statute of Anne in 1775]]
Until its repeal, most extensions to copyright law were based around provisions found in the Statute of Anne. The one successful bill from the lobbying in the 1730s, which came into force on 29 September 1739, extended the provision prohibiting the import of foreign books to also prohibit the import of books that, while originally published in Britain, were being reprinted in foreign nations and then shipped to England and Wales. This was intended to stop the influx of cheap books from Ireland, and also repealed the price restrictions in the Statute of Anne.{{sfn|Robinson|1991|p=69}} Another alteration was over the legal deposit provisions of the statute, which many booksellers found unfair. Despite an initial period of compliance, the principle of donating copies of books to certain libraries lapsed, partly due to the unwieldiness of the statute's provisions and partly because of a lack of cooperation by the publishers. In 1775 [[Frederick North, Lord North|Lord North]], who was [[List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University of Oxford]], succeeded in passing a bill that reiterated the legal deposit provisions and granted the universities perpetual copyright on their works.{{sfn|Alexander|2010|pp=48–49}}

Another range of extensions came in relation to what could be copyrighted. The statute only referred to books, and being an Act of Parliament, it was necessary to pass further legislation to include various other types of intellectual property. The [[Engraving Copyright Act 1734]] extended copyright to cover engravings, statutes in 1789 and 1792 involved cloth, sculptures were copyrighted in 1814 and the performance of plays and music were covered by copyright in 1833 and 1842 respectively.{{sfn|Cornish|2010|p=22}} The length of copyright was also altered; the '''Copyright Act 1814''' set a copyright term of either 28 years, or the natural life of the author if this was longer.{{sfn|Seville|2011|p=4}} Despite these expansions, some still felt copyright was not a strong enough regime. In 1837, [[Thomas Noon Talfourd]] introduced a bill into Parliament to expand the scope of copyright. A friend of many men of letters, Talfourd aimed to provide adequate rewards for authors and artists. He campaigned for copyright to exist for the life of the author, with an additional 60 years after that. He also proposed that existing statutes be codified under the bill, so that the case law that had arisen around the Statute of Anne was clarified.{{sfn|Alexander|2010|p=92}}

Talfourd's proposals led to opposition, and he reintroduced modified versions of them year on year. Printers, publishers and booksellers were concerned about the cost implications for original works, and for reprinting works that had fallen out of copyright.{{sfn|Alexander|2010|pp=94–95}} Many within Parliament argued that the bill failed to take into account the public interest, including Lord Macaulay, who succeeded in defeating one of Talfourd's bills in 1841.{{sfn|Alexander|2010|p=96}} The [[Copyright Act 1842]] passed, but "fell far short of Talfourd's dream of a uniform, consistent, codified law of copyright".{{sfn|Alexander|2010|p=100}} It extended copyright to life plus seven years, and, as part of the codification clauses, repealed the Statute of Anne.{{sfn|Alexander|2010|p=92}}