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Excerpt from On Copyright Design in Art and Manufactures
Property in form, distinct from that of the material substance or article in which it was exhibited, was, till within a few centuries, quite unknown. It has of late years attracted much notice, various arts having facilitated the multiplication of copies, and Government has paid attention not merely to the legal protection of Design, but to its encouragement by schools of art, museums, 850. While it is not only patronized but practised by Royalty itself.
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