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