1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
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) |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1751 | Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) |
1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762 | A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom) |
1765 | Reich v. Pauli (Germany) |
1766 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1769* | Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1773 | Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785* | Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
1792 | Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States) |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1821* | Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1830 | Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States) |
1835* | Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1845* | Court of Appeal on translations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1852 | Copyright and Natural Right (United States) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States) |
1853 | Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Bretón de los Herreros' Copyright Contract (Spain) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1866* | Literary and artistic property act (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1877* | Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1880* | Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1899 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States) |
1900 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States) |
1902* | Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1] |
1902 | Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States) |