U początków wczesnonowożytnej refleksji dotyczącej własności intelektualnej François Douaren: „De plagiariis et scriptorum alienorum compilatoribus [...] epistola” (1550)

The subject of the article is De plagiariis et scriptorum alienorum compilatoribus [...] epistola , a letter by François Douaren (Duarein, Duarenus, a French lawyer and humanist. An analysis of the letter in the context of ancient and early modern discourse on the literary theft ( furtum litterarium ) confirms the thesis on the growing in the Renaissance awareness of existing specific copyright in refer-ence to intellectual property with simultaneous difficulties that the old scholars faced when defining the laws and with differentiating plagiarism broadly understood compilation and imitation.