in protected works. Millar died shortly after the ruling and it was never appealed. As an English court, however, the court's decision did not extend to Scotland, where a reprint industry continued to thrive. The existence of a common-law copyright, however, was later rejected by a Scottish court in Hinton v Donaldson. Perpetual copyright was ultimately resolved against the London publishing monopolies in the landmark case of Donaldson v Beckett. Despite being overturned, the case of Millar v Taylor remains an important case in the development and history of copyright law. See also Copyright Copyright law of the United Kingdom History of copyright List of leading legal cases in copyright law References Footnotes References Paul Goldstein. Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Lyman Ray Patterson. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. Lyman Ray Patterson and Stanley W. Lindberg. The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991. 1769 in case law 1769 in British law Lord Mansfield cases United Kingdom copyright case law Court of King's Bench (England) cases