1517* | Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1690 | Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany) |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (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 | Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) |
1782 | Letter from Smith to Webster (United States) |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
1813* | Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works (Spain) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | Letter from Donaldson to Peters (United States) |
1833* | Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Folsom v. Marsh (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | 'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States) |
1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879* | Drone on Copyright (United States) |
1880 | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1884* | Bilateral Copyright Treaty between Spain and El Salvador (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |