Gyles v Wilcox
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gyles-v-wilcox-288-8461706
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Gyles v Wilcox
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Gyles v Wilcox (1740) 26 ER 489 was a decision of the Court of Chancery of England that established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which would later evolve into the concept of fair use. The case was heard and the opinion written by Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, and concerned Fletcher Gyles, a bookseller who had published a copy of Matthew Hale's Pleas of the Crown. Soon after the initial publication, the publishers Wilcox and Nutt hired a writer named Barrow to abridge the book, and re
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1740 English court case which set the groundwork for fair use
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2022-04-17T01:04:41Z
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