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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain 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: | Institution referred to in commentaries Abbey of St Benedict, Subiaco 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly Académie de Saint-Luc (Paris) 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting Académie française 1749: France * Crébillon case 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations Academy of Sciences (Paris) 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno (Florence) 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act Alcoholics Anonymous 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. Aldine Press 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews (Berlin) 1832 : Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Association for the Protection of the Rights of Authors 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) 1814 : France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Association Littéraire Internationale 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Augsburg City Council 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) of the H.R.E. (Vienna) 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code Austrian Court Chancellery 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia Austrian Imperial Commission of Justice 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia Austrian Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers (f.1897) 1870 : Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire Basel City Council 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute Basel Law Faculty 1738: Germany * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books Basel University 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute Berlin Industrial Academy (Gewerbeakademie) 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Berlin Municipal Court 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia Berlin Photographic Society 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Berlin University 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1821: Germany * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Bibliographical Society 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright Bibliothèque nationale de France 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations Board of Agriculture (for Great Britain) 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act Board of Customs 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Board of Trade 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report Board of Trade, London 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Books Commission (Frankfurt) 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code Books Commission (Leipzig) 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain Börsenverein (German Publishers' and Booksellers' organisation) 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig (f.1719) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act British Museum 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1828: United Kingdom * Maugham's Treatise 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Buchhandlung der Gelehrten (Publishing House for Scholars, est. 1781 in Dessau) 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books Bureau de la Librairie 1701: France * Royal letters patent Bureau du Commerce 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors Cambridge University Library 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Canadian Assembly 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act Canadian Embassy, London 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report Canadian Senate 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act Cappella musicale di San Marco (Venice) 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures Chamber of Deputies, Paris 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property Chancery of France ('Grande Chancellerie') 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1701: France * Royal letters patent Château de Blois 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege Châtelet (Provostship of Paris) 1749: France * Crébillon case Church of England 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press Collège de France 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays College of Electors (Kurfürstliches Kollegium) 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire College of New Jersey 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute Cologne University 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin Colonial Office, London 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Comédie-Française 1749: France * Crébillon case 1780: France * Dramatic Act Commercial Court of the Seine 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news Constitutional Committee of the French National Assembly 1790 : France * Sieyès' report 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly Continental Congress (1774-1789) 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: USA * Copyright Act Copyright Association of Great Britain 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Cour des Monnaies 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors Court of Appeal (Paris) 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1869: France * Court of Cassation on originality Court of Appeal (Rouen) 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations Court of Cassation (Paris) 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1845: France * Court of Appeal on translations 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 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 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1737: United Kingdom * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1741: United Kingdom * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) Court of Chancery, England 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act Court of High Commission 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter Court of King's Bench 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act Court of Session 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne C. F. Peters Musikverlag, Leipzig (f.1800) 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire Dartmouth College 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition Dramatic Authors' Society 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment Dramatists' Guild of America (est.1912) 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment Duncker & Humblot, Berlin-based publishing house (f.1798) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Federal Assembly (Bundestag) of the German Confederation 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1827: Germany * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1867: Germany * Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Florentine Council of Eight 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations Foreign Office, London 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Frankfurt City Council 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1598: Germany Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) Frankfurt fair 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges Frankfurt-on-the-Oder Provincial Court of Appeal 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Freemasons' Tavern, London 1844: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act French Chamber of Peers 1841: France * Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property German Customs Union (Zollverein) 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain German music publishers' Union Against Piracy (1830) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation German Publishers' & Booksellers' Association (1765) 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1766: Germany Prussian Cabinet Order 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) German Society for Musical Performance Rights (f.1903) 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) 1892: Germany * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. Gray's Inn 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill Harvard College 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright Harvard Law School 1847: USA * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright Harvard University 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh Haude & Spener publishing house (f.1640) 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) Heidelberg Law Faculty 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers Heidelberg University 1824: Germany * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1827: Germany * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Hermann & Langbein, music publishing house (Berlin) 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia High Commission 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company House of Commons 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1777: United Kingdom * Bach v. Longman 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act House of Lords 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1735: United Kingdom * Engravers' Copyright Act 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1762: United Kingdom * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1778: France * Pluquet's letters 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1854: United Kingdom * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act Imagerie d'Épinal (factory producing images) 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures Imperial Books Commission (Frankfurt) 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1608: Germany * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Germany Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1796: Germany Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges Imperial Censorship Committee (Vienna) 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire Imperial Court of Paris 1861: France * Court of Cassation on telegraphic news 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography 1869: France * Court of Cassation on originality Imperial Diet at Augsburg 1530 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance Imperial Senate 1479: Germany * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica Imperial State Chancery (Vienna) 1840: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, Frankfurt) 1501 : Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, Speyer) 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1533: Germany * Schott v. Egenolph Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, Wetzlar) 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books Imperial Treasury (Vienna) 1511: Germany * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick Ingolstadt University 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Germany Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1516: Germany Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria Inner Temple 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill International Exhibition 1862 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright J G Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart (f.1659) 1815: Germany * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation John P. Jewett & Co., American publishing firm (Boston) 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate 1831: USA * Copyright Act Keeper of the Seals ('Garde des Sceaux') 1723: France * Code de la Librairie Kentucky District Court 1903: USA * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. King's Council of State (France) 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1749: France * Crébillon case 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications Leipzig City Court 1549: Germany * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 Leipzig fair 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1659: Germany * Schupp: The Book Thief 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1765: Germany * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1773: Germany * Saxonian Statute 1781: Germany * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation Leipzig University 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1740: Germany * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1765: Germany Reich v. Pauli 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) Leuwen University 1531: Germany * Basel Printers' Statute Lincoln's Inn 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill Liverpool Photographic Society 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act Lyon Correctional Tribunal 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations 1869: France * Court of Cassation on originality Lyon Guild of Booksellers and Printers 1665: France * French book trade regulations Maison Ballard, sole music printers to the King of France (1552-1788) 1552 : France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard Marburg University 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin Massachusetts Board of Education 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh Massachusetts Circuit Court 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh Massachusetts General Court 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege Massachusetts House of Representatives 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege Middle Temple 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill National Assembly (1789-1791) 1776: France * Fragments on the Freedom of the Press 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly 1869: France * Court of Cassation on originality National Association for the Promotion of Social Science 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act New Water-Colour Society 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act Nuremberg City Council 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1660: Germany * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance N. Simrock, music publishers (f.1793) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy Ohio District Court 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden Ottaviano Scotto, Venice, music publishing firm (est.1480) 1498 : Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent Palais de Justice (Paris) 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege Paris Correctional Tribunal 1814: France * Court of Cassation on compilations Paris Mint 1469: Italy * Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1665: France * French book trade regulations 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1690: France * Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1749: France * Crébillon case 1759: France * Sieur d'Anville's contract 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1763: France * Diderot's Letter on the book trade 1770: France * Luneau de Boisjermain's case 1791: France * Report of François Hell to the National Assembly Parisian Guild of Master Painters and Sculptors 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures Parlement of Paris 1507: France * Eloy d'Amerval's privilege 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard 1586: France * Simon Marion's plea on privileges 1686: France * Book trade regulations 1701: France * Royal letters patent 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1762: France * Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors 1777: France * Linguet's memorandum Parliament 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1557: United Kingdom * Stationers' Charter 1624: United Kingdom * Statute of Monopolies 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report Patent Office, U.S. Department of State 1879: USA * Baker v. Selden Pennsylvania District Court 1853: USA * Stowe v. Thomas Pennsylvania Supreme Court 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause Permanent Imperial Diet (Regensburg) 1790: Germany * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire Peterhouse College, Cambridge 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig publishing house 1837: Germany * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation Princeton University 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute Privy Council 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1538: United Kingdom * Henrician Proclamation 1553: United Kingdom * Totell's Printing Patent 1559: United Kingdom * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: United Kingdom * Elizabethan Injunctions 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Provostship of Paris 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1749: France * Crébillon case Prussian Association of Literary Experts 1837: Germany * Prussian Copyright Act 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Prussian Association of Musical Experts 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire Prussian Customs Union 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain Prussian Embassy, Vienna 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia Prussian Ministry for Religious, Educational, and Medical Affairs 1876 : Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Prussian Ministry for the Revision of the Laws 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Prussian Ministry of Commerce 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy Prussian Ministry of Justice 1794: Germany * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Prussian Ministry of the Interior 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia Prussian Privy Council 1809: Germany * Baden Civil Code Prussian State Council (Staatsrat) 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Prussian Supreme Court 1832: Germany * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays Registry Office of the Union Against Piracy, Leipzig 1835: Germany * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia Reichstag of the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1876: Germany * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs Réunion des Fabricants de Bronze (Paris) 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures Riformatori dello Studio di Padova (Venetian Board of Governors for the University of Padua) 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents Rouen Guild of Booksellers and Printers 1665: France * French book trade regulations Royal Academy 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Paris) 1660: France * Decree on Engravings 1676: France * Decree on Sculptures 1777: France * Royal declaration on sculpture and painting 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures Royal Chapel of France 1552: France * General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard Royal Commission on Copyright 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1847: United Kingdom * Foreign Reprints Act 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1878: United Kingdom * Royal Commissioners' Report 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Royal Navy 1781: USA * Andrew Law's Petition Royal Society of Arts (RSA); also: Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act Schuberth & Niemeyer, music publishers (f.1829) 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy Signoria of Venice (Supreme Government) 1504: Italy * A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi Sion College, London 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne Social Democratic Federation (SDF) 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Société des Auteurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors, f.1777, now SACD) 1780: France * Dramatic Act 1834: France * Balzac's letter to authors 1856: USA * Copyright Act Amendment Société des Gens de Lettres de France (SGDL, f.1838) 1834 : France * Balzac's letter to authors Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Society of Authors (U.K.) 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Society of the King's Inns, Dublin 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Sodalitas Celtica 1501: Germany * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica South German Customs Union 1830: Germany * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy St Bartholomew's Hospital 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act St Martin's Lane Academy 1798: United Kingdom * Models and Busts Act Stamp Office for Music (Paris) 1786: France * French Decree on Musical Publications Star Chamber 1566: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1586: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1842: United Kingdom * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright Stationers' Company 1515: France * Galliot Du Pré's Privilege 1518: United Kingdom * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 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: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1643: United Kingdom * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1672: USA * Usher's Printing Privilege 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1704: United Kingdom * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1721: United Kingdom * Burnet v. Chetwood 1723: France * Code de la Librairie 1737: United Kingdom * Booksellers' Bill 1761: France * La Fontaine case 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1783: USA * Connecticut Copyright Statute 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act 1870: United Kingdom * Copinger's Law of Copyright Stationers' Hall 1773: United Kingdom * Hinton v. Donaldson 1846: Germany * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1862: United Kingdom * Fine Art Copyright Act 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Strasbourg City Council 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon Supreme Court (Leipzig) 1870: Germany * Copyright Act for the German Empire Swiss Federal Council 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Theatre Royal, Covent Garden 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1667: United Kingdom * Milton's Contract 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act Theatre Royal, Haymarket 1833: United Kingdom * Dramatic Literary Property Act Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine 1814: France * Court of Cassation on sculptures 1842: France * Court of Cassation on artistic property 1862: France * Court of Cassation on photography Tribunal of the Executors against Blasphemy, Venice 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon Trinity College, Dublin 1801: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act Universal Postal Union 1886: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) 1498: Italy * Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent 1503: Italy * Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon 1545: Italy * Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations 1780: Italy * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents University and King's College of Aberdeen 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act University of Cambridge 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1769: United Kingdom * Millar v. Taylor 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1852: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act University of Edinburgh 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act University of Glasgow 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1835: United Kingdom * Publication of Lectures Act University of Göttingen 1774: Germany * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books University of London 1838: United Kingdom * International Copyright Act University of Oxford 1637: United Kingdom * Star Chamber Decree 1662: United Kingdom * Licensing Act 1690: United Kingdom * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1710: United Kingdom * Statute of Anne 1762: United Kingdom * Tonson v. Collins 1774: United Kingdom * Donaldson v. Becket 1775: United Kingdom * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act 1842: United Kingdom * Copyright Act University of Padua 1474: Italy * Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets 1486: Italy * Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege University of Paris (Sorbonne) 1513: Germany * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin University of St Andrews 1814: United Kingdom * Copyright Act University of Tübingen 1867: Germany * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" University of Vienna 1867: Germany * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" U.S. Circuit Court for New York District 1790: USA * Copyright Act U.S. Congress 1789: USA * The Constitutional Copyright Clause 1790: USA * Copyright Act 1831: USA * Copyright Act 1841: USA * Folsom v. Marsh 1853: USA * Stowe v. 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