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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login: | Key words referred to abridgements 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1741: United Kingdom Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1782: USA Letter from Smith to Webster 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Peters 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA "Uncle Tom" at Law 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 academic freedom 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" adaptation 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1777: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: Germany Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 advertising 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1891: USA Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Three Posters 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. almanacs 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1649: France Book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 Anglo-American 1783: USA Petition of John Ledyard 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1842: USA Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1852: USA Copyright and Natural Right 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1862: USA Southern Feeling 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA The Question of Copyright anonymous works 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs anthologies 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire applied art, protected subject matter 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 architecture, protected subject matter 1766: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence arrangement 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union art market 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 attribute, obligation to 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1657: Germany Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 authenticity 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1814: United Kingdom Sculpture Copyright Act 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) authorship, corporate 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence authorship, joint or collaborative 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1896: USA The Question of Copyright authorship, legal concept of 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1741: United Kingdom Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Peters to Donaldson 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief authorship, romantic concept of 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights authorship, romantic theory of 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right authorship, theory of 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1666: Germany Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1891: USA Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. authors' remuneration 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1526: Italy Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna" 1558: United Kingdom Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1749: France * Crébillon case 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1772: USA William Billings' Printing Privilege 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1774: United Kingdom Stella's Modest Exceptions 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1782: USA Letter from Smith to Webster 1783: USA Ledyard Petition Committee Report 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA House Joint copyright and patent bill decision 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1789: USA Ramsay's Petition 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Peters to Donaldson 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1852: USA Copyright and Natural Right 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 authors, self-publishing 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1812: United Kingdom Petition of the London Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence author's remuneration 1802: USA 1802 Amendment author/publisher relations 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1531: Italy * Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 barter trade 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" Bible, the 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom John Day's Privilege for the Catechism 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" bilateral agreements, between German lands 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation book fairs 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy book market 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1666: Germany Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA The Question of Copyright book trade 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1649: France Book trade regulations 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA The Question of Copyright books, protected subject matter 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1559: United Kingdom Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1739: Germany Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1787: USA Constitutional Convention Journal Entry 1787: USA Madison's Edited Journal Record 1787: USA Madison's Journal Record 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1790: USA Sample registrations 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1828: USA H.R. 140 Committee Bill 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. Börsenverein (German Publishers' and Booksellers' organisation) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire catechisms 1553: United Kingdom John Day's Privilege for the Catechism 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 censorship 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Italy * Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Italy Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1833: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" censorship, pre-publicatinon 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press censorship, pre-publication 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1547: France * French Censorship Act 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing choreographic works, protected subject matter 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union classics, Greek and Latin 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1502: Italy Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1649: France Book trade regulations 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" commissions 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief common law copyright 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1826: USA Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA Letters from Sumner to Story 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 compilation 1657: Germany Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Peters to Donaldson 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 confederacy 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: USA Southern Feeling 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1863: USA International Copyright Resolution constitution, US 1787: USA Constitutional Convention Journal Entry 1787: USA Madison's Edited Journal Record 1787: USA Madison's Journal Record 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA Ramsay's Petition 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. contract 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief contracts, regulation of 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission copy 1504: Italy * A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1814: United Kingdom Sculpture Copyright Act 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1838: Germany Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. copying, concept of 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson counterfeit 1502: Italy Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1504: Italy * A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1568: Italy * Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France creativity 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1749: France * Crébillon case 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. customs 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 defamation 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1647: United Kingdom Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright defences and exemptions 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1896: USA Debate in Congress deposit 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1649: France Book trade regulations 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1790: USA Sample registrations 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1812: United Kingdom Petition of the London Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief derivatives 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 distributive justice 1778: France * Pluquet's letters divine law 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" divisibility 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights dramatic works, protected subject matter 1749: France * Crébillon case 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1790: USA Sample registrations 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: United Kingdom Dramatic Writings Bill 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1833: United Kingdom Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property 1833: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: USA S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1894: USA H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Public Performance Bill 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1897: USA * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) dramatico-musical works, protected subject matter 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1830: United Kingdom Dramatic Writings Bill 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: USA S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Public Performance Bill 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 drawings, protected subject matter 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 duration 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Germany Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1512: Germany Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1526: Italy Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1531: Italy * Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1532: Italy Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's "History of Florence" 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1553: United Kingdom William Seres' Printing Patent 1558: United Kingdom Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' 1558: United Kingdom Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1559: United Kingdom Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom Totell's patent for Common Law Books 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1746: USA North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1787: USA Constitutional Convention Journal Entry 1787: USA Madison's Edited Journal Record 1787: USA Madison's Journal Record 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) 1814: United Kingdom Sculpture Copyright Act 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA H.R. 140 Committee Bill 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1830: United Kingdom Dramatic Writings Bill 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1867: Germany * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1872: USA International Copyright Bill 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights duration, post mortem term 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1766: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union duration, prolongation of privileges 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations editions, new 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) employer/employee relations 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. engravings 1790: France * Sieyès' report engravings, protected subject matter 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1766: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1777: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1836: United Kingdom Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1899: USA Bleistein v. 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Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 excommunication 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1531: Italy * Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1531: Italy * Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1560: Germany Counterfeited papal privilege exhibitions 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 expurgation 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" fair use 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Debate in Congress fixation 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right foreign reprints 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: United Kingdom Foreign Reprints Bill 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1857: United Kingdom Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 forgery 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) formalities 1547: France * French Censorship Act 1549: Italy * Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1667: United Kingdom Recital of the Stationers' Charter 1684: United Kingdom Stationers' Charter 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1790: USA Sample registrations 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1872: USA International Copyright Bill 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. fraud 1502: Italy Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1666: Germany Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 free trade 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1896: USA The Question of Copyright French Revolution 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" grammars 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1784: USA Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" guild regulation 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1549: Italy * Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1549: Italy * Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1596: Italy * Motu proprio controversy 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1649: France Book trade regulations 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1684: United Kingdom Stationers' Charter 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors guilds 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1549: Italy * Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" humanism 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade idea/expression 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 imitation 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson imitation, learning by 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right immoral works 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1549: Italy * Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. import 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act importation 1502: Italy Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1739: Germany Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1790: Germany * J.F.F. 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Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA The Question of Copyright industrial revolution 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right ingenuity 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1789: USA House Joint copyright and patent bill decision 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 inheritability 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1721: United Kingdom Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1789: USA Ramsay's Petition 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights interest groups 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence international agreements, Berne Convention 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1886: United Kingdom Berne Convention 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. international agreements, bilateral 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: France * French International Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA "Uncle Tom" at Law 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. 1896: USA The Question of Copyright international agreements, multilateral 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1863: USA International Copyright Resolution 1896: USA The Question of Copyright invention 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1883: USA Sarony's Brief inventions 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief inventors 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1787: USA Madison's Journal Record 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA House Joint copyright and patent bill decision 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right labour theory 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1766: United Kingdom Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 law books 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1559: United Kingdom Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books 1559: United Kingdom Totell's patent for Common Law Books 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1700: USA Bladen's Privilege 1746: USA North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners 1750: USA New York Law Printing Privilege 1772: USA Second New York Law Printing Privilege 1790: USA Sample registrations 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1828: USA Letter from Peters to Donaldson 1830: USA Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire learning, the advancement of 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1782: USA Letter from Smith to Webster 1783: USA Continental Congress Resolution 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1787: USA Madison's Edited Journal Record 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1842: USA Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 letters 1741: United Kingdom Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1741: United Kingdom Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA Master in Chancery Report 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 libraries 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1813: United Kingdom Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 licensing 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1647: United Kingdom Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1662: United Kingdom Licensing Act (parchment copy) 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1740: Italy Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1833: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1896: USA Debate in Congress licensing, Approbation 1516: Italy * Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1649: France Book trade regulations 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) licensing, Imprimatur 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Italy * Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom William Seres' Printing Patent 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing lobbying 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1782: USA Letter from Smith to Webster 1783: USA Continental Congress Resolution 1783: USA Ledyard Petition Committee Report 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1812: United Kingdom Petition of the London Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1826: USA Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1842: USA Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA The Question of Copyright manuscript 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Debate in Congress maps, protected subject matter 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1766: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1777: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1790: USA Sample registrations 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1828: USA H.R. 140 Committee Bill 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 medical tracts 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1778: France * Pluquet's letters monopoly 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA The Question of Copyright moral obligations 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report moral rights 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1896: USA The Question of Copyright moral rights, attribution 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right moral rights, divulgation (first publication) 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right moral rights, integrity 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1721: United Kingdom Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights moral rights, theory 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1853: USA "Uncle Tom" at Law 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights music publishing 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1657: Germany Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1772: USA William Billings' Printing Privilege 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 music, protected subject matter 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1512: Germany Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1739: Germany Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons 1772: USA William Billings' Printing Privilege 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1894: USA H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1897: USA * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights Napoleonic Wars 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" natural rights 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1782: USA Letter from Smith to Webster 1783: USA Continental Congress Resolution 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1826: USA Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA The Question of Copyright new editions 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1896: USA The Question of Copyright newspapers 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1835: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 newspapers, protected subject matter 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 novelty 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief oral works, protected subject matter 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1835: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) 1835: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) 1835: United Kingdom Publication of Lectures Bill 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA The Question of Copyright originality 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1657: Germany Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1787: United Kingdom * Calico Printers' Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. ownership, corporate 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief paintings, protected subject matter 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. patents, for invention 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1787: USA Constitutional Convention Journal Entry 1787: USA Madison's Edited Journal Record 1787: USA Madison's Journal Record 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA House Joint copyright and patent bill decision 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1831: USA House Debate 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report patents, for inventions 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) patents, printing 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket patronage 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1774: United Kingdom Stella's Modest Exceptions 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) penalties 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1512: Germany Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1532: Italy Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's "History of Florence" 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1549: Italy * Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1558: United Kingdom Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1647: United Kingdom Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1740: Italy Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1833: United Kingdom Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: Germany Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1894: USA H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Public Performance Bill 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1897: USA * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief penalties, paid to author(s) 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1526: Italy Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna" 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1749: France * Crébillon case 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1772: USA William Billings' Printing Privilege 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1830: United Kingdom Dramatic Writings Bill 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1857: United Kingdom Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France penalties, paid to fiscal authorities 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1516: Italy * Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1531: Italy * Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1545: Italy * Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom John Day's Privilege for the Catechism 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1558: United Kingdom Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1559: United Kingdom Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1596: Italy * Motu proprio controversy 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire penalties, paid to publishers' organisations 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter penalties, paid to publisher(s) 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire perpetual protection 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1826: USA Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1840: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 personality theory 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. photography, protected subject matter 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1865: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1882: USA Oscar Wilde photograph 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: USA Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. 1893: USA Falk v. Donaldson 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief piracy 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1841: USA Master in Chancery Report 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1896: USA The Question of Copyright 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: USA Bleistein's Brief 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. plagiarism 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Stella's Modest Exceptions 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1841: USA Master in Chancery Report 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1888: USA American Authors and British Pirates portrait 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1861: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1882: USA Oscar Wilde photograph 1883: USA Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief posthumous works 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill prescription 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property price regulation 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom William Seres' Printing Patent 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1649: France Book trade regulations 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill printing, history of 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1501: Italy Vergilius 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1549: Italy * Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" private domain 1741: United Kingdom Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA Master in Chancery Report 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright privileges 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1512: Germany Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1618: United Kingdom Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right privileges, Austrian 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act privileges, Bavarian 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria privileges, counterfeit 1686: France * Book trade regulations privileges, fictitious 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1560: Germany Counterfeited papal privilege 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders privileges, French 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1649: France Book trade regulations 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" privileges, German Imperial 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1512: Germany Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code privileges, Papal 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1526: Italy Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1531: Italy * Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1531: Italy * Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works 1532: Italy Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's "History of Florence" 1560: Germany Counterfeited papal privilege 1596: Italy * Motu proprio controversy privileges, Polish 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick privileges, printing 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1553: United Kingdom John Day's Privilege for the Catechism 1553: United Kingdom William Seres' Printing Patent 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1558: United Kingdom Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' 1558: United Kingdom Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1559: United Kingdom Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books 1559: United Kingdom Totell's patent for Common Law Books 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: United Kingdom Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1700: USA Bladen's Privilege 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1746: USA North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners 1750: USA New York Law Printing Privilege 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1772: USA Second New York Law Printing Privilege 1772: USA William Billings' Printing Privilege 1772: USA William Billings' Second Petition 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1783: USA Ledyard Petition Committee Report 1783: USA Petition of John Ledyard 1784: USA Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison 1785: Germany Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1789: USA Ramsay's Petition 1789: USA Ramsay's Petiton House Record 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" privileges, Prussian 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) privileges, Saxon 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act privileges, Spanish 1778: France * Pluquet's letters privileges, Swedish 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief privileges, Swiss 1739: Germany Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons privileges, Venetian 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1501: Italy Vergilius 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1526: Italy Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings priviliges 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures property analogies 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1837: USA * Senate Report 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1896: USA Debate in Congress property theory 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom * Pope v. Curl 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1749: France * Crébillon case 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1766: United Kingdom Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1773: United Kingdom Information for Alexander Donaldson 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Peters to Donaldson 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1852: USA Copyright and Natural Right 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights property theory, authors' property 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1721: United Kingdom Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders 1721: United Kingdom Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1747: United Kingdom * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1749: France * Crébillon case 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1766: United Kingdom Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1783: USA Continental Congress Resolution 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1826: USA Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster 1826: USA Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1835: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1852: France * French International Copyright Act 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1853: USA "Uncle Tom" at Law 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1867: Germany * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1873: USA Committee on the Library Report 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA The Question of Copyright 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights property theory, publishers' property 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1761: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Peters 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1867: Germany * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" public domain 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1774: United Kingdom The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: USA Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. 1831: USA House Debate 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA Master in Chancery Report 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France public good 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1547: France * French Censorship Act 1549: Italy * Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1596: Italy * Motu proprio controversy 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1830: USA Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. 1834: USA * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1835: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) 1842: USA Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1888: USA The International Copyright Bill 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 public performance 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1749: France * Crébillon case 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1814: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: United Kingdom Dramatic Writings Bill 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1833: United Kingdom Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property 1833: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1885: USA Carte v. Duff 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1894: USA H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) 1894: USA Report on H.R. 6835 1896: USA Debate in Congress 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Public Performance Bill 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 1896: USA Report on S. 2306 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) 1897: USA * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights public utility 1709: United Kingdom More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press reciprocity 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1806: Germany Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1837: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) 1837: USA * Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA International Copyright Resolution 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1872: USA International Copyright Bill 1874: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1891: USA * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 Reformation, the 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1547: France * French Censorship Act 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" registration 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1603: Italy * Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1649: France Book trade regulations 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: Germany Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1721: United Kingdom Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1729: United Kingdom Gay v. Read 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1777: France * French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1784: USA South Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA North Carolina Copyright Statute 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1789: USA Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] 1790: USA Sample registrations 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1798: United Kingdom * Beckford v. Hood 1801: United Kingdom A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1812: United Kingdom Petition of the London Booksellers 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: United Kingdom Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: USA Committee Report on S.703 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief 1883: USA Sarony's Brief 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 religious works 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1485: Germany Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1511: Germany Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1525: Germany Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1534: Germany Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1547: France * French Censorship Act 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1553: United Kingdom William Seres' Printing Patent 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1558: United Kingdom Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' 1559: United Kingdom Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1649: France Book trade regulations 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1657: Germany Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1713: Germany Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" remedies 1596: Italy * Motu proprio controversy 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1741: United Kingdom Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1828: USA Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1872: USA International Copyright Bill 1879: USA * Drone on Copyright 1896: USA Report on H.R. 1978 Renaissance, the 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" renewal 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1828: USA H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1861: USA * Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 1896: USA Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) replica 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs reprints 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1504: Italy * A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1515: Italy * Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1517: Italy * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1541: Germany * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1568: Italy * Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1618: France * Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1650: France * Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1673: Germany Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1675: Germany * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1739: Germany Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1766: Germany Prussian Cabinet Order 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1774: United Kingdom Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1775: Germany Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1838: Germany Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA The Question of Copyright reputation 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1735: United Kingdom The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1750: Germany Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1783: USA Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1837: USA Address of Certain Authors 1837: USA Debates in Congress 1837: USA Petition of British Authors 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1838: USA Report, from the Committee on Patents 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1848: USA Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 royalty/royalties 1591: Germany A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1791: France Beaumarchais's petition 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1832: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1852: USA Copyright and Natural Right 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1863: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1872: USA International Copyright Bill 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1884: Germany * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1886: USA Committee on Patents Report 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1896: USA Debate in Congress scholarly writing 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Germany Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1666: Germany Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1710: United Kingdom A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1774: United Kingdom Enfield's Observations 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1789: USA Ramsay's Petition 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1813: United Kingdom Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1830: USA Judiciary Committee Report 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1839: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1846: Germany Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 scribal publication 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1590: Italy * Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books" 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1878: France * Morillot on the author's right sculptures 1857: France * Court of cassation on originality sculpture, protected subject matter 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1799: United Kingdom Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1814: United Kingdom Sculpture Copyright Act 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Bill 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1844: USA H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1851: United Kingdom Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1858: United Kingdom Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1861: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA * Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: United Kingdom Copyright Consolidation Bill 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 secrecy 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 serialisation 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 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copyright 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1838: Germany Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1843: USA An Address to the People of the United States 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1851: France * SACEM's act of constitution 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1872: United Kingdom Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 societies, publishers' 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1766: Germany Prussian Cabinet Order 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1799: Germany * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1829: Germany Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1838: USA Memorial of the New York Typographical Society 1890: USA Report on H.R. 10881 1896: USA Hearing on H.R. 5976 states, US 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition 1783: USA Continental Congress Resolution 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Hampshire Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1783: USA Petition of John Ledyard 1783: USA Rhode Island Copyright Statute 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1784: USA Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1788: USA The Federalist No. 43 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1802: USA 1802 Amendment 1883: USA Burrow-Giles' Brief Stationers' Company 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1557: United Kingdom The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1649: United Kingdom An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1653: United Kingdom An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1663: United Kingdom L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1667: United Kingdom Recital of the Stationers' Charter 1684: United Kingdom Stationers' Charter 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1693: United Kingdom Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1695: United Kingdom Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1729: United Kingdom Gay v. Read 1774: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. 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Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence taxation 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1813: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1818: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1857: United Kingdom Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints 1862: France * Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" technical manuals 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1790: USA Sample registrations 1863: USA Hardee's Memorial 1879: USA Baker's Argument 1879: USA Selden's Argument 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 transferability 1554: United Kingdom Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1558: United Kingdom Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1559: United Kingdom Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters 1559: United Kingdom Totell's patent for Common Law Books 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1706: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: United Kingdom Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1725: France * Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1737: United Kingdom An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1751: United Kingdom Tonson v. Walker 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1762: United Kingdom A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1766: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1773: United Kingdom Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1774: United Kingdom The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1776: France * Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1781: USA Andrew Law's Privilege 1783: USA Maryland Copyright Statute 1783: USA Massachusetts Copyright Statute 1783: USA New Jersey Copyright Statute 1784: USA Pennsylvania Copyright Statute 1785: Germany * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1785: USA Virginia Copyright Statute 1786: USA Georgia Copyright Statute 1786: USA New York Copyright Statute 1790: France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Le Chapelier's report 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1792: USA Purcell's Printing Privilege 1793: France * French Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1826: France * Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1830: USA Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: United Kingdom Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: USA Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston 1839: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1841: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: United Kingdom Copyright Bill 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: United Kingdom Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1844: Germany * Saxon Copyright Act 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1852: USA Copyright and Natural Right 1853: Germany * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1853: United Kingdom Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA British-American Copyright Convention Draft 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1857: Germany * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1866: France * Literary and artistic property act 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1880: Germany * Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1886: United Kingdom Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1891: Germany 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1899: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision 1900: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision 1902: France * Court of Cassation on moral rights 1902: USA Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. 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Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders 1721: United Kingdom Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1832: United Kingdom Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1838: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1852: United Kingdom Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1853: USA Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853: USA Letters on International copyright 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer 1853: USA "Uncle Tom" at Law 1853: USA * Stowe v. 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