Chulalongkorn

“ Nowadays, when certain people have made their efforts to compose writings with their own intelligence and wisdom and published them to produce some benefits, there often happens to be, if any of those writings could be distributed in a large quantity, someone else daring enough to print that writing for sale without authorisation, causing ruin to the benefits which should devolve upon the author by all rights. ”

“ Section⁠4.⁠The person enjoying the rights of author in any writing has the exclusive power to print, to copy, to translate into a different language, and to distribute or sell the writing in respect of which he enjoys the rights of author. No one else can print, copy, translate into a different language, or distribute or sell such writing without having obtained permission from the person enjoying the rights of author. ”

“ The Royal Hall was a place for storing writings which were standard works, textbooks, and official records of the Nation. (The name Royal Hall seems to be a shortening of the Royal Hall of Archives) . ”