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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: France Italy Germany United Kingdom United States All documents for: France Italy Germany United Kingdom United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login: | Core documents by date 1469: Italy Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1474: Italy Statute on Industrial Brevets 1479: Germany Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1486: Italy Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege 1498: Italy Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1501: Germany Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1503: Italy Warning of Aldus Manutius against Lyonese Typographers 1507: France Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Germany Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1515: France Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1515: Italy Ludovico Ariosto's Printing Privilege 1516: Italy Appointment of Literary Censor, Andrea Navagero 1517: Italy Decree on Press Affairs 1518: United Kingdom The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1531: Germany Basel Printers' Statute 1531: Italy Antonio Blado's Privilege for Works by Machiavelli 1531: Italy Bernardo Giunti's Privilege for Works by Machiavelli 1533: Germany Schott v. Egenolph 1538: United Kingdom Henrician Proclamation 1541: Germany Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1545: Italy Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence 1545: Italy Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1547: France Censorship Act 1549: Germany Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts up to 1717 1549: Italy Decree Establishing the Guild of Printers and Booksellers 1552: France General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1553: United Kingdom Totell's Printing Patent 1557: United Kingdom Stationers' Charter 1559: United Kingdom Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom Star Chamber Decree 1586: France Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1586: United Kingdom Star Chamber Decree 1590: Italy Giovanni Fratta's On the Dedication of Books 1596: Italy Motu proprio controversy 1603: Italy Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints 1608: Germany "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1618: France Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade 1624: United Kingdom Statute of Monopolies 1637: United Kingdom Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1650: France Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges 1659: Germany Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: France Decree on Engravings 1660: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1662: United Kingdom Licensing Act 1665: France Book trade regulations 1667: United Kingdom Milton's Contract 1672: USA Usher's Printing Privilege 1675: Germany Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1676: France Decree on Sculptures 1686: France Book trade regulations 1690: France Memorandum on the opposition between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1690: United Kingdom Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1701: France Royal letters patent 1704: United Kingdom Defoe's Essay on the Press 1710: United Kingdom Statute of Anne 1714: France Decree on Fine Arts 1721: United Kingdom Burnet v. Chetwood 1723: France Code de la Librairie 1725: France Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum 1725: France Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum 1735: United Kingdom Engravers' Copyright Act 1737: United Kingdom Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1737: United Kingdom Booksellers' Bill 1738: Germany Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1740: Germany Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1741: United Kingdom Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1741: United Kingdom Pope v. Curl 1747: United Kingdom Warburton's Letter from an Author 1749: France Crébillon's case 1759: France Sieur d'Anville's contract 1761: France La Fontaine case 1762: France Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1762: United Kingdom An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom Tonson v. Collins 1763: France Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1765: Germany Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1769: United Kingdom Millar v. Taylor 1770: France Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1773: Germany Electoral Saxony's Statute 1773: United Kingdom Hinton v. Donaldson 1774: Germany Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1774: United Kingdom Donaldson v. Becket 1775: United Kingdom Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1776: France Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1776: France Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers 1777: France Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges 1777: France King's declaration on sculpture and painting 1777: France Linguet's memorandum 1777: United Kingdom Bach v. Longman 1778: France Pluquet's letters 1780: France Dramatic Act 1780: Italy Niccolo Pezzana's Case 1781: Germany Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781: Italy Pezzana's case: Sentence in Favour of the Author 1781: USA Andrew Law's Petition 1783: USA Connecticut Copyright Statute 1785: Germany Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1786: France Decree on Musical publications 1787: United Kingdom Calico Printers' Act 1789: USA The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: France Sieyès' report 1790: Germany J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: USA Copyright Act 1791: France Le Chapelier's report 1791: France Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1793: France Literary and Artistic Property Act 1793: Germany Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: Germany Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1794: Germany Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1798: United Kingdom Beckford v. Hood 1798: United Kingdom Models and Busts Act 1799: Germany Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1801: United Kingdom Copyright Act 1809: Germany Baden Civil Code 1814: France Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France Court of Cassation on sculptures 1814: United Kingdom Copyright Act 1815: Germany Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: Germany Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: Germany Neustetel: Reprinting of Books 1826: France Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission 1827: Germany Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1827: Germany Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1828: United Kingdom Maugham's Treatise 1830: Germany Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1831: USA Copyright Act 1832: Germany Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1833: United Kingdom Dramatic Literary Property Act 1834: France Balzac's letter to authors 1834: USA Wheaton v. Peters 1834: USA Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report 1835: United Kingdom Publication of Lectures Act 1837: Germany Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1837: Germany Prussian Copyright Act 1837: USA Senate Report 1838: United Kingdom International Copyright Act 1840: Germany Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1841: France Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property 1841: USA Folsom v. Marsh 1842: France Court of Cassation on artistic property 1842: United Kingdom Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1844: Germany Saxon Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom International Copyright Act 1845: France Court of Appeal on translations 1846: Germany Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Germany Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1847: United Kingdom Foreign Reprints Act 1847: USA A Treatise on the Law of Copyright 1851: France SACEM's act of constitution 1852: France International Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom International Copyright Act 1853: USA Stowe v. Thomas 1854: United Kingdom Jeffreys v. Boosey 1856: USA Copyright Act Amendment 1857: Germany Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1859: Germany Gerber: Rights of Authors and Publishers 1861: France Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1861: USA Confederate States of America Copyright Act 1862: France Court of Cassation on photography 1862: France Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires" 1862: United Kingdom Fine Art Copyright Act 1865: USA Copyright Act Amendment 1866: France Literary and artistic property act 1867: Germany Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 1867: Germany Schäffle: Economic Theory 1869: France Court of Cassation on originality 1870: Germany Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: United Kingdom Copinger's Law of Copyright 1870: USA Copyright Act 1876: Germany Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: Germany Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1878: France Morillot on the author's right 1878: United Kingdom Royal Commissioners' Report 1879: USA Baker v. Selden 1879: USA Drone on Copyright 1880: Germany Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Germany Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1883: Germany 1884: Germany Orelli: Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices 1886: United Kingdom International Copyright Act 1891: USA International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) 1892: Germany Bilateral treaty between the German Empire and the United States of America 1897: USA Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) 1902: France Court of Cassation on moral rights 1903: USA Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. | ||||
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