1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1644 | Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom) |
1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
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) |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
1762* | An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1762 | A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1766 | Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (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 | Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1783 | Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States) |
1787* | Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1787 | Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1826 | Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (United States) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) 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) |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters (United States) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1842* | Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (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) |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1853 | 'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States) |
1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1858 | Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom) |
1861 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (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 | Hardee's Memorial (United States) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1869 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1873 | Committee on the Library Report (United States) |
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 | Baker's Argument (United States) |
1883 | Sarony's Brief (United States) |
1883 | Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States) |
1885 | Carte v. Duff (United States) |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |
1899 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) |
1900 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) |