1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Decree on Engravings (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] |
1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom) |
1735* | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1735 | The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1747* | Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |
1774* | Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents (Italy) |
1780* | Dramatic Act (France) |
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 | Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States) |
1784 | Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States) |
1787* | Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791 | Beaumarchais's petition (France) |
1798* | Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1799 | Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) |
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 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
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) |
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] |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1834* | Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment (Spain) |
1837* | Royal Order on Music Copyright (Spain) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
1837 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
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) |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1882* | Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
1887* | International Literary Congress in Madrid (Spain) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |