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privileges 274
duration 244
penalties 228
property theory 188
authorship 141
books 128
registration 109
book trade 108
authors' remuneration 95
deposit 94
censorship 90
transferability 89
reprints 85
music 84
licensing 78
translations 76
formalities 75
engravings 74
learning 74
foreign reprints 74
lobbying 73
dramatic works 72
importation 66
monopoly 65
international agreements 64
piracy 64
book market 60
public performance 60
newspapers 60
originality 58
public good 58
inheritability 57
public domain 57
incentives 57
reciprocity 55
scholarly writing 53
editions 52
moral rights 52
patents 50
natural rights 49
printing 48
utility 48
reputation 47
contract 46
maps 46
counterfeit 45
religious works 44
property analogies 42
author/publisher relations 42
common law copyright 41
translation 40
societies 40
paintings 40
patronage 39
interest groups 39
idea/expression 39
Stationers' Company 38
drawings 37
Anglo-American 36
imitation 36
price regulation 36
inventions 36
defamation 36
immoral works 35
fraud 35
guild regulation 35
royalty/royalties 35
sculpture 34
libraries 33
labour theory 33
universities 33
perpetual protection 32
manuscript 32
abridgements 32
dramatico-musical works 31
photography 31
oral works 30
copy 29
Bible 29
adaptation 29
guilds 29
inventors 28
anonymous works 27
remedies 27
Reformation 26
copying 26
authenticity 26
unpublished works 24
personality theory 24
classics 24
compilation 24
commissions 23
free trade 23
fair use 23
authors 23
customs 23
law books 23
creativity 22
applied art 21
constitution 20
typography 20
derivatives 19
Enlightenment 19
music publishing 18
art market 18
almanacs 18
employer/employee relations 18
states 18
forgery 17
new editions 17
plagiarism 17
book fairs 16
novelty 16
serialisation 16
renewal 15
subscription 15
barter trade 14
French Revolution 14
import 14
replica 13
Renaissance 13
letters 13
excluded subject matter 13
portrait 13
attribute 13
divine law 12
taxation 12
advertising 12
scribal publication 11
catechisms 11
anthologies 11
grammars 10
humanism 10
industrial revolution 10
Napoleonic Wars 10
privilege 10
ingenuity 10
utilitarianism 10
arrangement 10
technical manuals 9
architecture 9
divisibility 8
moral obligations 7
enlightenment 7
private domain 7
signature 7
Art 7
Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) 7
exhibitions 7
Engraving 7
Replicas 6
posthumous works 6
Portraits 6
Repetitions 6
Photographs 6
confederacy 5
Publication 5
ownership 5
Copying 5
contracts 5
medical tracts 4
Artistic works 4
Print 4
Venice 4
Vienna Congress 4
Painting 4
Privileges 4
compulsory licensing 4
Collectors 4
fixation 4
Early Modern 4
excommunication 4
secrecy 4
public utility 4
Sculpture 3
defences and exemptions 3
expurgation 3
Riformatori dello Studio di Padova 3
colonies 3
Consiglio dei Pregadi 3
invention 3
academic freedom 3
Senate of Venice 3
Authorship 2
bilateral agreements 2
author's remuneration 2
property 2
artist 2
Registration 2
Religious works 2
Woodcut 2
woodcuts 2
woodcutter 2
Royal Academy of Arts 2
Börsenverein (German Publishers' and Booksellers' organisation) 2
codification 2
printmakers 2
Counter-Reformation 2
Sitters 2
Society of Arts 2
Collegio of Venice 2
Lord Thring 2
Lord Monkswell 2
Inquisition 2
priviliges 1
Sigmund Feierbend 1
services 1
retail price 1
Sigismund Feierabend 1
Petrus Valgrisius 1
Sigmund Feyerabend 1
Richard Bethell 1
US 1
Unpublished works 1
religion 1
prescription 1
printing press 1
property analogues 1
Pietro Valgrisi 1
Royal Commission on Copyright 1
Triumph of Caesar 1
Stereoscopic pictures 1
Public Library of Melbourne 1
printer 1
Summary Proceedings 1
plaster 1
Titus Livius 1
The Death of Chatterton 1
portraiture 1
penalties; author/publisher relations; foreign reprints; books 1
printing 1
patterns 1
Delabere Roberton Blaine 1
Catherinus Geno 1
Censorship 1
choreographic works 1
Christ 1
Cipriana Michiel 1
Colonial copyright 1
Common law copyright 1
copies 1
Council of Trent 1
distributive justice 1
Catechisms 1
Dramatic Works 1
embroidery 1
Enea Parmigiano 1
Enea Vico 1
engraving 1
Exhibition 1
expression 1
Fine Arts Copyright Act 1
fines 1
Formalities 1
Catherino Zeno 1
Casts from Nature 1
Francesco Marcolini da Forli 1
art 1
Aggrieved person 1
Albrecht Dürer 1
Ancient Rome 1
Antoine du Pérac Lafréry 1
Antonio Floriano 1
Antonio Floriano da Udene 1
Antonio Lafreri 1
Antonio Lafréry 1
Antonio Salamanca 1
arts 1
cast 1
assignat 1
author 1
author/self-publishing 1
Benedetto Bordon 1
Benedetto Bordone 1
Blackburn J. 1
book 1
booksellers 1
Bulls 1
cartography 1
Francesco Marcolini 1
François Clouet 1
pattern book 1
Lucretia 1
Jacobus of Strassburg 1
Jakob von Strassburg 1
Joseph Salviati 1
Julius Caesar 1
Justices of the Peace 1
Literary works 1
Livy 1
Lord Westbury 1
Lucrece 1
Lucretia Contarini 1
Jacob of Strasburg 1
Manchester Art Treasures 1
mappamondo 1
Martinez de Salamanca 1
morality 1
Museum of Industry and Art 1
Musical Works 1
National Gallery 1
New Zealand 1
Originality 1
painter (peintre du roi) 1
Jacobus Argentoratensis 1
inventor 1
Gaius Julius Caesar 1
Giuseppe Porta 1
Geert de Cremer 1
Geert de Kremer 1
Geography 1
Gerard de Cremer 1
Gerard de Kremer 1
Gerard Mercator 1
Gerardus Mercator 1
Giacomo di Argentina 1
Giovanni Ostaus 1
Giuseppe Salviati 1
intellectual property 1
gores 1
guild 1
Henri II 1
Henry Graves 1
Henry II 1
Henry Wallis 1
Hieronimo Zane 1
Hieronimus Zane 1
Il Salviati 1
inherability 1
world maps 1

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