Excerpt from Remarks on the Speech of Sergeant Talfourd: On Moving for Leave to Bring in a Bill to Consolidate the Laws Relating to Copyright, and to Extend the Term of Its Duration I t appears to me, that the learned Sergeant is wrong in the very basis of his argument. I conceive that the end proposed by the law of Copyright is the same as that in the case of Patents for mechanical inventions, My remarks apply to the law as it stands and to the principles on which it is established. It is useless to argue about that which, by the showing of the learned Sergeant, the Judges have solemnly decided not to be law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.