1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1502 | Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis (Germany) |
1516 | Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1666 | Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker (Germany) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
1706 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1710 | A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel'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 (Atkyn's Reports) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1774* | Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1789 | Ramsay's Petition (United States) |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1813 | Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (United States) |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1846 | Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany) |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1859* | Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1882* | Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1890* | Copyright Pocketbooks (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1890* | Copyright Pocketbooks (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |