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Core documents for German speaking countries

1479 : Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg

1501 : Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica

1511 : Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick

1511 : Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer

1513 : Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin

1531 : Basel Printers' Statute

1533 : Schott v. Egenolph

1541 : Luther's "Warning to the Printers"

1549 : Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts up to 1717

1608 : "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II

1659 : Schupp: The Book Thief

1660 : Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1675 : Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest"

1738 : Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books

1740 : Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

1765 : Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel

1773 : Electoral Saxony's Statute

1774 : Pütter: The Reprinting of Books

1781 : Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing

1785 : Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting

1790 : J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire

1793 : Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting

1794 : Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1794 : Contract between Schiller and Cotta

1799 : Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books

1809 : Baden Civil Code

1815 : Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna

1821 : Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property

1824 : Neustetel: Reprinting of Books

1827 : Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States

1827 : Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers

1830 : Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1832 : Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays

1837 : Prussian Copyright Act

1837 : Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation

1840 : Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

1844 : Saxon Copyright Act

1846 : Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1846 : Austrian Copyright Act

1857 : Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1859 : Gerber: Rights of Authors and Publishers

1867 : Schäffle: Economic Theory

1867 : Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865

1870 : Copyright Act for the German Empire

1876 : Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs

1877 : Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights

1880 : Kohler: Author's Right

1882 : Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France

1883 : (no short title available)

1884 : Orelli: Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices

1892 : Bilateral treaty between the German Empire and the United States of America

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK