Joseph Yates (judge): Author

Joseph Yates (judge) was English barrister and judge. Explore interesting quotes on author.

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“The invention of an author is a species of property unknown to the common law of England. Its usages are immemorial; and the views of it tend to the benefit and advantage of the public with respect to the necessaries of life, and not to the improvement and graces of mind.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2387.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

“It is certain that every man has a right to keep his own sentiments, if he pleases: he has certainly a right to judge whether he will make them public, or commit them only to the sight of his own friends. In that state the manuscript is, in every sense his peculiar property; and no man can take it from him or make any use of it which he has not authorized, without being guilty of a violation of his property.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)

“Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.”

Joseph Yates (judge)

4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)