Paraguay Colonial

a "monopoly ... of a new book" to granting a monopoly to a company "to establish a new trade with some remote and barbarous nation."( That is, copyrights were needed to encourage the making and marketing of works, since publishing ventures, like colonial expeditions to new lands, could vary from disastrous to profitable. This reasoning also looked to the Enlightenment goal of accelerating the progress of the 148 Carta a Isaac McPherson, 1813, recolhido em Kock, A. & Peden, W. (1972). The Life

Congress’s next session, they cannot stop the historic freeing of trade that has been occurring unilaterally worldwide. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Latin America witnessed dramatic lowering of trade barriers unilaterally by Chile, Bolivia, and Paraguay; and the entire continent has been moving steadily toward further trade liberalization. Mercosur’s recent actions are a setback, but only a small one—so far. Latin America’s record has been bettered by unilateral…

L/V/II.83 Doc.31, 12 março de 1993, par. 8, 9 e 90. 85. Cf. Comissão de Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas. Questão da violação dos direitos humanos e das liberdades fundamentais em qualquer parte do mundo, em particular nos países e territórios coloniais e dependentes. Execuções extrajudiciais, sumárias ou arbitrárias. Aditamento. Relatório do Relator Especial, B. W. Ndiaye, sobre sua missão ao Peru, de 24 de maio a 2 de junho de 1993, E/CN.4/1994/7/Add.2, 15 de novembro de 1993,…