1477* | Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1700 | Bladen's Privilege (United States) |
1709 | More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1735 | The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1750 | New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1772 | Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1777* | Royal declaration on sculpture and painting (France) |
1777 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1782 | Letter from Smith to Webster (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) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1789* | The Constitutional Copyright Clause (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1789 | House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (United States) |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Contract between Schiller and Cotta (Germany) |
1813 | Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (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) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (United States) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1831 | House Debate (United States) |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1837 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |