1474* | Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1547* | French Censorship Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1549* | Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Motu proprio controversy (Italy) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1741 | Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom) |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Royal declaration on sculpture and painting (France) |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents (Italy) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
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] |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1830 | Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
1835* | Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1835 | Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (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 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (United States) |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |