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A & C Black, Edinburgh, publishing house (est.1807)

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Académie de Saint-Luc (Paris)

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures


Académie française

1690: France
* Memorandum on the opposition between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers

1749: France
* Crébillon's case

1776: France
* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Academy of Sciences (Paris)

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1776: France
* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission


Adelphi Theatre, London

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Agence Havas

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news


Alabama Confederate District Court

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, American publishing firm (Andover, MA)

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Altdorf University

1673: Germany
  Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance


American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1790: USA
  Sample registrations


American Copyright Club

1843: USA
  An Address to the People of the United States


American International Copyright Association (est. 1837)

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


American International Copyright Association (1868), New York

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


American Newspaper Publishers' Association

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


American Philosophical Society

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors


American Publishers' Copyright League

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Antiquarian Society, London

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)


Appeals Council (Supplikationsrat) of the H.R.E.

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


Appleton & Co., American publishing firm

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Ashmolean Society, Oxford

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors


Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI)

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Association Littéraire Internationale

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Athenaeum Club, London

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Athenaeum Hotel, New York

1843: USA
  An Address to the People of the United States


Augsburg City Council

1713: Germany
  Augsburg Printers' Ordinance


Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) of the H.R.E. (Vienna)

1608: Germany
* "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II

1713: Germany
  Augsburg Printers' Ordinance

1785: Germany
  Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid"

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


Basel City Council

1531: Germany
* Basel Printers' Statute


Basel University

1738: Germany
* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books


Belford Bros., Toronto (publishing firm)

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Bennett, Backus & Hawley, American publishing firm (Utica, NY)

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Berlin University

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus


Berliner Photographische Gesellschaft, New York

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Berne Convention 1886

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Bibliothèque du Roi (French Royal Library)

1618: France
* Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures


Bibliothèque nationale de France

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1841: France
* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report


Bickers & Bush, London (bookselling firm)

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Bijou Theatre, New York

1893: USA
  Falk v. Donaldson


Board of Agriculture (for Great Britain)

1799: United Kingdom
  Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act


Board of Trade

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report


Board of Trade, London

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Bodleian Library, Oxford

1637: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Books Commission (Leipzig)

1549: Germany
* Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts up to 1717

1773: Germany
* Electoral Saxony's Statute

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Boston Academy of Music

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Boston Copyright Association (f.1887)

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Bow Street Magistrates' Court

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig (f.1719)

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy


Bremen Senate

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


Brett Lithographing Co., New York

1891: USA
  Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.


British and Foreign Bible Society

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


British Embassy in Paris

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright


British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright


British Museum

1774: United Kingdom
  Booksellers' Bill

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1813: United Kingdom
  Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June)

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill


Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle

1765: Germany
* Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel


Bundesrat of the German Empire

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


Bundesrat (Federal Council) of the North German Confederation

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire


Bureau de la Librairie

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1882: Germany
* Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France


Bureau de l'Union internationale pour la protection des oeuvres littéraires et artistiques

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Bureau for the Poor

1790: France
* Sieyès' report


Bureau international de l'Union pour la protection de la propriété industrielle, Berne

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


B. Schott's Söhne, music publishers (f.1770)

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy


Cabinet des Estampes (Print Room, National Library, Paris)

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Caius College Library, Cambridge

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins


Cambridge University Library

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May)

1814: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June)

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Canadian House of Commons

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Canadian Senate

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Canterbury Music Hall, London

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., publishing house

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Cawthorn's Circulating Library, London

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Central Book Censorship Commission (Vienna)

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act


Chamber of Commerce, Vienna

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Chamber of Deputies, Paris

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May)

1840: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.)

1841: France
* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property

1841: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.)

1841: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Chambre syndicale des libraires et imprimeurs (Paris)

1618: France
* Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade

1665: France
* Book trade regulations

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1761: France
* La Fontaine case

1770: France
* Luneau de Boisjermain's case

1776: France
* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers

1777: France
* Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1786: France
* Decree on Musical publications

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission


Chancery of France ('Grande Chancellerie')

1665: France
* Book trade regulations

1676: France
* Decree on Sculptures

1701: France
* Royal letters patent

1761: France
* La Fontaine case

1776: France
* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers


Chapel Royal

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Chapman & Hall (publishing house)

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Chappell & Co., music publishers

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Charles Scribner & Co., American publishing firm

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Charterhouse School

1721: United Kingdom
  Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer


Château du Louvre

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

1723: France
* Code de la Librairie


Châtelet (Provostship of Paris)

1660: France
* Decree on Engravings


Chicago Copyright League

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Christ Church College, Oxford

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Christie's, auction house

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Church Consistory of Leipzig

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act


Church of England

1538: United Kingdom
* Henrician Proclamation

1559: United Kingdom
* Elizabethan Injunctions

1637: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1662: United Kingdom
  Licensing Act (parchment copy)

1662: United Kingdom
* Licensing Act

1663: United Kingdom
  L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals

1693: United Kingdom
  Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act

1704: United Kingdom
* Defoe's Essay on the Press

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise


Church of Scotland

1839: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)


Church-Committee of Saxony

1773: Germany
* Electoral Saxony's Statute


Civil Registry at the Châtelet du Paris

1618: France
* Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade


Clarendon Press, Oxford

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Coburg Theatre (now: Old Vic)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Cockpit Theatre, Drury Lane

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Collège de France

1618: France
* Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade


Collège de Montaigu (University of Paris)

1690: France
* Memorandum on the opposition between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers


College of Electors (Kurfürstliches Kollegium)

1608: Germany
* "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II

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


College of New Jersey

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster


Colonial Office, London

1857: United Kingdom
  Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Colton & Jenkins, American bookbinding firm (New York)

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Comédie-Française

1749: France
* Crébillon's case

1776: France
* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers

1780: France
* Dramatic Act

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Comité de Constitution (National Assembly)

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Commissioner of Customs, England

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Commissioner of Customs, Ireland

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Commissioner of Customs, Scotland

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Commissioner of Excise, England

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Commissioner of Excise, Ireland

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Commissioner of Excise, Scotland

1801: United Kingdom
  A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning


Committee of Agriculture & Trade

1791: France
* Report of François Hell to the National Assembly


Committee of Public Instruction (First Republic)

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act


Compagnie des Usages (association of major Parisian publishers)

1650: France
* Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges


Confederate Congress (1861-1865)

1861: USA
* Confederate States of America Copyright Act

1863: USA
  Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution


Confederate District Courts

1861: USA
* Confederate States of America Copyright Act

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Confederate Secretary of State's Office

1861: USA
* Confederate States of America Copyright Act


Confrairie de S Jean Porte-Latine (booksellers' association)

1650: France
* Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges


Congress

1894: USA
  H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill)


Congress of the Confederation (1781-1789)

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1787: USA
  Constitutional Convention Journal Entry


Connecticut General Assembly

1781: USA
  Andrew Law's Privilege

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition

1783: USA
  Ledyard Petition Committee Report

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1783: USA
* Connecticut Copyright Statute


Connecticut Supreme Court

1783: USA
* Connecticut Copyright Statute


Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report


Conservatoire de Paris

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Constitutional Committee

1791: France
* Report of François Hell to the National Assembly


Constitutional Convention (1787)

1787: USA
  Madison's Edited Journal Record

1787: USA
  Madison's Journal Record

1788: USA
  The Federalist No. 43

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief


Continental Congress (1774-1789)

1783: USA
  Continental Congress Resolution

1783: USA
  Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress


Copyright Association of Great Britain

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Copyright Association of the United States

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1878: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence


Corps législatif (1852-1870)

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1866: France
* Literary and artistic property act

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Corpus Christi College, Oxford

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Cosmar & Krause, music publishers (f.1826)

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy


Council of State (England)

1649: United Kingdom
  An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets

1653: United Kingdom
  An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act]


Council of State (France)

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Council of the City of London

1649: United Kingdom
  An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets


Council of the Comédie-Française (est. 1766)

1780: France
* Dramatic Act


Cour de Commerce (Paris)

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters


Court of Appeal of England and Wales

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee


Court of Appeal (Bordeaux)

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news


Court of Appeal (Paris)

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Court of Appeal (Rouen)

1845: France
* Court of Appeal on translations

1853: France
  Court of Cassation on translations

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas


Court of Cassation (Paris)

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures

1841: France
  Court of Cassation on artistic property

1842: France
* Court of Cassation on artistic property

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Court of Chancery

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

1741: United Kingdom
  Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report)

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders

1741: United Kingdom
* Pope v. Curl

1747: United Kingdom
* Warburton's Letter from an Author

1751: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Walker

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins

1762: United Kingdom
* Tonson v. Collins

1766: United Kingdom
  Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts)

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson

1774: United Kingdom
  Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1774: United Kingdom
  The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1798: United Kingdom
* Beckford v. Hood

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Court of Chancery, England

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1835: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.)

1838: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1839: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1840: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.)

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1879: USA
* Baker v. Selden

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1883: USA
  Sarony's Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief


Court of Common Pleas

1775: United Kingdom
* Stationers' Company v. Carnan

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Court of Common Pleas, South Carolina

1784: USA
  South Carolina Copyright Statute

1792: USA
  Purcell's Printing Privilege


Court of Exchequer

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright


Court of Exchequer, England

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Court of Exchequer, Ireland

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842: United Kingdom
  Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)


Court of High Commission

1637: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Court of King's Bench