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Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, 1707, 5 & 6 Anne, c.8

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket


Act of German Confederation (8 June 1815)

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


Act of Union, 1800, 40 Geo.III, c.38

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Act to amend an Act of the 7th and 8th Years of the Her present Majesty, for reducing, under certain circumstances, the Duties payable upon Books and Engravings, 9 & 10 Vict., c.58

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Act to Protect and Regulate the Rights of Authors in Respect of their Works (No 2 of 1873)

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Aliens Act, 1483, 1 Ric.III, c.9

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1649

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright


An Act to impose a duty on Foreign Reprints of British Copyright Works, Canada, 1868, 31 Vict., c.56

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


An Act touching letters patent, 1555, 1 & 2 Philip & Mary, c.1

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson


An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1643

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

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)


Anglo-Belgian Copyright Treaty 1854

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1851

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1852: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.)

1852: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April)

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Anglo-German Copyright Treaty 1886

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1846

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.)

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-Prussian Copyright Treaty 1856

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-Sardinian Copyright Treaty 1860

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-Saxonian Copyright Treaty 1846

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.)

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty 1857

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty 1880

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1713

1713: Germany
  Augsburg Printers' Ordinance


Austrian Civil Statute Book 1811

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

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act


Austrian Copyright Act 1846

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Austrian decree of 1775 penalising the reprinting of Austrian-published books

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1781

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

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


Austro-Sardinian Copyright Treaty 1840

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

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

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Baden Statute Book 1809

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


Basel Printers' Statute 1531

1531: Germany
* Basel Printers' Statute


Basel Printers' Statute (1531)

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


Bavarian Copyright Act 1814

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"


Bavarian Copyright Act 1840

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights


Bavarian Copyright Act 1865

1867: Germany
* Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865

1877: Germany
* Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights


Bavarian Penal Law Book, reprinting provision (1813)

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


Belgian Copyright Act 1886

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill


Belgian copyright legislation

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Belgian copyright legislation (1814, 1817)

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas


Belgian decree (23 September 1814), repealing all French laws on the book trade

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

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


Bermuda Copyright Act 1848

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Berne Convention 1886

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


British North America Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict., c.3

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1853

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1869

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


British-American Copyright Convention Draft, 1880

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Calico and Cotton Printers' Act, 1789, 29 Geo.III, c.19

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Calico Printers' Act, 1787, 27 Geo.III, c.38

1787: United Kingdom
  Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy)

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April)

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Canadian Copyright Act, 1868, 31 Vict., c.54

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


Canadian Copyright Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict., c.53

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill


Canadian Copyright Amendment Act 1886

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill


Charte aux Normands 1315

1665: France
* Book trade regulations


Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1842: France
* Court of Cassation on artistic property

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1866: France
* Literary and artistic property act

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

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

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Code de la Librairie 1723

1723: France
* Code de la Librairie

1725: France
* Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1770: France
* Luneau de Boisjermain's case

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

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

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


Code Pénal 1810

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1841: France
  Court of Cassation on artistic property

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

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Codex Augusteus (Body of Electoral Saxon Law, published in 1724)

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


Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, 28 & 29 Vict., c.63

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Comédie-Française regulations (1697)

1780: France
* Dramatic Act


Comédie-Française regulations (1757)

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

1780: France
* Dramatic Act


Comédie-Française regulations (1780)

1780: France
* Dramatic Act


Confederate Copyright Statute 1861

1861: USA
* Confederate States of America Copyright Act

1863: USA
  Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Connecticut Copyright Statute 1783

1783: USA
* Connecticut Copyright Statute

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire

1774: Germany
* Pütter: The Reprinting of Books


Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

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 Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876


Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790

1834: USA
  Letters from Sumner to Story


Copyright Acts for the German Empire 1876

1877: Germany
* Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Copyright Act, 1775, 15 Geo.III, c.53

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster

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

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

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April)

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

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

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Copyright Act, 1801, 41 Geo.III, c.107

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1812: United Kingdom
  Petition of the London Booksellers

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster

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
* 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
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156

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

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

1830: USA
  Judiciary Committee Report

1833: United Kingdom
  Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1835: United Kingdom
  Publication of Lectures Bill

1835: United Kingdom
* Publication of Lectures Act

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.)

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
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)

1842: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Copyright Act, 1814, 54 Geo.III, c.156&Legislation_referred_to_in_commentary>

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster


Copyright Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.110

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Copyright Amendment Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.45

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1847: United Kingdom
  Foreign Reprints Bill

1847: United Kingdom
* Foreign Reprints Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March)

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May)

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June)

1862: United Kingdom
* Fine Art Copyright Act

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

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act, 1836, 6 & 7 Will.IV, c.59

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

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

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Copyright Law of 1805 (Spain)

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


Copyright Law of 1828 (Russia)

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


Copyright of Designs Act, 1842, 5 & 6 Vict., c.100

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument


Copyright of Designs Act, 1850, 13 & 14 Vict., c.104

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Copyright of Designs Amendment Act, 1858, 21 & 22 Vict., c.70

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument


Copyright of Designs (Amendment) Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict., c.65

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hamburg 1853

1853: Germany
  Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hanover 1847

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Copyright Treaty between Britain and Hessen 1861

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Copyright Treaty between Prussia and Württemberg 1828

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Copyright (Musical Compositions) Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Vict., c.40

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


County Courts Act, 1850, 13 & 14 Vict., c.61

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright


Customs Act, 1825, 6 Geo.IV, c.107

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


Customs Act, 1845, 8 & 9 Vict., c.93

1847: United Kingdom
  Foreign Reprints Bill

1847: United Kingdom
* Foreign Reprints Act

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, 16 & 17 Vict., c. 107

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Darmstadt Copyright Act 1830

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus


Decree of the King's Council on the duration of privileges (1777)

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

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

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

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


Decree of the King's Council (1704), reducing the number of printing offices throughout France

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


Decree of the King's Council (1725), regulating the Parisian book trade

1725: France
  Book trade regulations

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


Decree of the King's Council (1739), reducing the number of printing offices in some French towns

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


Decree of the King's Council (1744), applying the Code de la Librairie (1726) to all of France

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


Decree of the National Assembly Abolishing the Feudal System, 11 August 1789

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


Decree on Fine Arts, Paris (1714)

1735: United Kingdom
  The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c.


Decrees of King's Council 1626, 1627

1725: France
* Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum


Designers and Printers Act, 1794, 34 Geo.III, c.23

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Directive of reciprocal protection within the German Confederation (1837)

1837: Germany
* Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March)

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

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

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Disorderly Houses Act, 1751, 25 Geo.II, c.36

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Draft law against offences which can be committed by way of printing and by the publication of writings and engravings

1790: France
* Sieyès' report


Dramatic Literary Property Act, 1833, 3 & 4 Will.IV, c.15

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June)

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Dutch book trade regulations in various provinces

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


Dutch copyright legislation

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Dutch Law of 25 January 1817, relating to literary and artistic property

1842: United Kingdom
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of 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


Edict of Charles VIII (1488), limiting the number of University booksellers

1763: France
* Diderot's Letter on the book trade


Edict of Gaillon 1571 (regulation of book trade)

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


Edict of Moulins (1566), obliging royal privileges for all first editions

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

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission


Elizabethan Injunctions 1559

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


English Copyright Bill 1838

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


Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13

1735: United Kingdom
  Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy)

1735: United Kingdom
* Engravers' Copyright Act

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

1766: United Kingdom
  Engravers' Copyright Act

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1777: United Kingdom
  Engravers' Copyright Act

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June)

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

1883: USA
  Sarony's Brief

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson