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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 from 1549 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: Saxonian 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: The 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

1835: Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia

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

1853: Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1857: Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1867: Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities"

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

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

1892: Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A.

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