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Core documents for the United States

1672: Usher's Printing Privilege

1781: Andrew Law's Petition

1783: Connecticut Copyright Statute

1789: The Constitutional Copyright Clause

1790: Copyright Act

1831: Copyright Act

1834: Wheaton v. Peters

1834: Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: Senate Report

1841: Folsom v. Marsh

1847: A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: Stowe v. Thomas

1856: Copyright Act Amendment

1861: Confederate States of America Copyright Act

1865: Copyright Act Amendment

1870: Copyright Act

1879: Drone on Copyright

1879: Baker v. Selden

1891: International Copyright Act (The Chace Act)

1897: Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions)

1903: Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.

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