Lord Camden
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Charles Pratt · ex-Lord Chancellor · his lordship
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
Ex-Lord Chancellor who argued against perpetual common-law copyright on grounds of lack of precedent, fear of crown usurpation, and public policy; his arguments are extensively quoted and rebutted by the narrator.
But Lord Camden assumes—as men more ignorant, and therefore more excusable, than himself, have often done—that valuable ideas cost their authors neither time nor labor;
More shameless meanness, injustice, or falsehood has seldom been seen, than in this attempt of Lord Camden to deprive the most useful and meritorious, as well as the most self-sacrificing individuals, of the benefit of the common principles of justice, in their efforts to live by performing for society the most valuable labors.
Lord Camden himself, in another part of his speech, virtually acknowledges its unsoundness;