1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1553 | William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom) |
1553 | John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom) |
1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1557 | The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) |
1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1618 | Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
1644 | Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom) |
1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1653 | An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1662 | Licensing Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1667* | Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1667 | Recital of the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1684 | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
1690* | Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
1700 | Bladen's Privilege (United States) |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1706 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1710 | A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1721* | Burnet v. Chetwood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1721 | Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom) |
1721 | Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) |
1729 | Gay v. Read (United Kingdom) |
1735* | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1735 | The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) |
1735 | Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1741* | Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1741* | Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1741 | Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom) |
1741 | Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom) |
1741 | Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) |
1746 | North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States) |
1747* | Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1750 | New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1751 | Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) |
1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
1762* | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1762 | A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom) |
1766 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1766 | Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) |
1769* | Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1772 | Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1772 | William Billings' Second Petition (United States) |
1772 | William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States) |
1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1773 | Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) |
1773 | Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) |
1774* | Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Stella's Modest Exceptions (United Kingdom) |
1775* | Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1777 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
1782 | Letter from Smith to Webster (United States) |
1783 | Petition of John Ledyard (United States) |
1783* | Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1783 | Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States) |
1783 | Continental Congress Resolution (United States) |
1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Hampshire Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States) |
1784 | Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1787* | Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1787 | Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1787 | Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Journal Record (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States) |
1788 | The Federalist No. 43 (United States) |
1789* | The Constitutional Copyright Clause (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1789 | Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States) |
1789 | House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (United States) |
1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
1789 | Ramsay's Petition (United States) |
1790-1800 | Sample registrations (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1792 | Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States) |
1798* | Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1798* | Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1798 | Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1799 | Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1801 | Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
1812 | Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1826 | Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (United States) |
1826 | Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster (United States) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | Letter from Donaldson to Peters (United States) |
1828 | Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton (United States) |
1828 | Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1830 | Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) |
1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (United States) |
1830 | Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1831 | House Debate (United States) |
1832 | Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) |
1832 | Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) |
1833* | Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) |
1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) |
1833 | Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters (United States) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
1834 | Letters from Sumner to Story (United States) |
1835* | Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1835 | Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (United Kingdom) |
1835 | Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) (United Kingdom) |
1835 | Publication of Lectures Bill (United Kingdom) |
1836 | Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act (United Kingdom) |
1837 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom) |
1837 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
1837 | Debates in Congress (United States) |
1837 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Folsom v. Marsh (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1841 | Master in Chancery Report (United States) |
1841 | S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842* | Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (United States) |
1843 | An Address to the People of the United States (United States) |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1844 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1847 | Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom) |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom) |
1852 | Copyright and Natural Right (United States) |
1853 | Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1853* | Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States) |
1853 | Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States) |
1853 | 'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States) |
1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1856* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1857 | Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) |
1858 | Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom) |
1860 | Turner v. Robinson (United Kingdom) |
1861 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1861 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom) |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Southern Feeling (United States) |
1863 | Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States) |
1863 | Hardee's Memorial (United States) |
1863 | International Copyright Resolution (United States) |
1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
1869 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1869 | Graves’ Case, London (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1869 | Victorian Copyright Act, Victoria (United Kingdom) |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870 | Committee Report on S.703 (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1872 | International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1873 | Committee on the Library Report (United States) |
1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Memorial of the Royal Academy of Arts, London (United Kingdom) |
1879* | Drone on Copyright (United States) |
1879* | Baker v. Selden (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1879 | Selden's Argument (United States) |
1879 | Baker's Argument (United States) |
1882 | Oscar Wilde photograph (United States) |
1883 | Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (United States) |
1883 | Sarony's Brief (United States) |
1883 | Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States) |
1885 | Carte v. Duff (United States) |
1886* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Berne Convention (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1888 | American Authors and British Pirates (United States) |
1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |
1891 | Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. (United States) |
1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
1893 | Falk v. Donaldson (United States) |
1894 | Report on H.R. 6835 (United States) |
1894 | H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States) |
1896 | New Zealand Copyright Act, Wellington (United Kingdom) |
1896 | Public Performance Bill (United States) |
1896 | Report on H.R. 1978 (United States) |
1896 | Report on S. 2306 (United States) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |
1897* | Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States) |
1899 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States) |
1900 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) |
1900 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein's Brief (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein: Three Posters (United States) |
1903* | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1903 | Bleistein: Cartoon (United States) |