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Aberdeen

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Abyssinia

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Adelaide

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Africa

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Agen (Aquitaine)

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Agra

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


Aix

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

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography


Alabama

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Albany

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

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Aldergate

1559: United Kingdom
  Day's The Cosmographical Glass


Alexandria

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Allahabad

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


Altdorf

1673: Germany
  Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance


Altenburg

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

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

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

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain


Altona

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


America

1690: United Kingdom
* Locke's Second Treatise on Government (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

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

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1783: USA
  Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

1783: USA
  Massachusetts Copyright Statute

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1783: USA
  Rhode Island Copyright Statute

1784: USA
  Pennsylvania Copyright Statute

1790: USA
* Copyright Act

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

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
  Petition of British Authors

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

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

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

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

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

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

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

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

1844: USA
  H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill)

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

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

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1892: Germany
* Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A.

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1896: USA
  Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976)

1897: USA
* Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions)


Amherst (Nova Scotia)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Amiens

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

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition


Amsterdam

1667: United Kingdom
* Milton's Contract

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

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

1709: United Kingdom
  Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

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

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


Andover, Massachusetts

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer


Angoulême

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


Anhalt-Bernbourg

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee


Anhalt-Bernburg

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain


Anhalt-Dessau-Cöthen

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain


Anhalt-Köthen

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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee


Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Antigua

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Antwerp

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

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


Anvers

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Appenzell-Outer Rhodes

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons


Arabia

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket


Argentina

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Arkansas

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


Ashburton (Devonshire)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Asia

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

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

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Astoria, Oregon

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


Athens

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

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

1790: France
* Sieyès' report

1821: Germany
* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right


Auburn, New York

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Augsburg

1516: Germany
  Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck

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

1713: Germany
  Augsburg Printers' Ordinance


Augusta, Georgia

1786: USA
  Georgia Copyright Statute

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


Australia

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

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May)

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Austria

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

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

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

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

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
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Avignon

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

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

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters


Ayen (dép. of Corrèze)

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


Baden

1806: Germany
  Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code

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

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Baffin's Bay

1789: USA
  Ramsay's Petiton House Record


Bahamas Islands

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Baltimore

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress


Bamberg

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna


Barbados

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

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


Basel

1531: Germany
* Basel Printers' Statute

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

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Bath

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Bavaria

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

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

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

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

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

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Bay of Fundy

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Bayswater

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents


Bedford

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)


Belgium

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

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

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

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

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

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
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Belize Town

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Bengal

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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


Berkshire

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson


Berlin

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

1775: Germany
  Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness"

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna

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

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1835: Germany
* Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

1838: Germany
  Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

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

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

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Bermuda

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Bernburg

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

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


Berne

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons

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

1882: Germany
  Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act


Berwick

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al


Besançon

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

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Biel

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons


Birmingham

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Blackburn

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


Blenheim

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

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


Blois

1507: France
* Eloy d'Amerval's privilege

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


Bloomington, Indiana

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Bohemia

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Bolivia

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Bologna

1568: Italy
* Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"


Bombay

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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


Bonn

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy


Bordeaux

1665: France
* French book trade regulations

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news

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


Boston

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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


Boston, Massachusetts

1772: USA
  William Billings' Printing Privilege

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1826: USA
  Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Peters

1838: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1841: USA
* Folsom v. Marsh

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: USA
  Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Bouillon (Belgium)

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


Brabant

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


Bradford

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


Braintree (Essex)

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


Braunschweig

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

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

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

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

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and 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


Brazil

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Bremen

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

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

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


Brescia

1502: Italy
  Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters

1503: Italy
* Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon


Brighton

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Brisbane

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Bristol

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


British Columbia

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


British Guiana (Guyana)

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


British Honduras

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


British North America

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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


British West Africa

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Brooklyn

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Brunswick, Maine

1852: USA
  Copyright and Natural Right


Brussels

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill


Buffalo, New York

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1899: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief

1903: USA
* Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.


Burlington, New Jersey

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Burma

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


Bury St Edmunds

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Caen

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


Calais

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Calcutta

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


California

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

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Cambridge

1586: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

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


Cambridge, Massachusetts

1783: USA
  Massachusetts Copyright Statute

1834: USA
  Letters from Sumner to Story

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

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Canada

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

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Canterbury

1695: United Kingdom
  Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

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


Cape Breton Island

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Cape of Good Hope

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Cape Town

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Cassel [Kassel]

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


Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Champagne

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


Channel Islands

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

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill


Charleston, South Carolina

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1789: USA
  Ramsay's Petition

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

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Chasteleraut (dép. of Vienne)

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


Cheapside

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


Chemnitz

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


Cheshire, Connecticut

1781: USA
  Andrew Law's Privilege

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition


Chevy Chase

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson


Chicago

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Chile

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


China

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

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

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


Chiswick

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright


Cincinnati

1830: USA
  Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr.

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

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision


Clerkenwell

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


Clermont

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


Cleveland

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Coggeshall (Essex)

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


Colchester

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Cologne

1513: Germany
* Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Colombia

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Colombo

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Colorado Springs

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Columbia District

1844: USA
  H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill)


Columbia, South Carolina

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


Columbus, Ohio

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Concord, New Hampshire

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


Connecticut

1783: USA
* Connecticut Copyright Statute

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief


Constantinople

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Copenhagen

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

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

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


Corfu

1518: United Kingdom
* The Articles of the Pope's Bulle


Corinth

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Costa Rica

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Courtrai

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Covent Garden

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

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Coventry

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Covington, Kentucky

1899: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Cracow (Krakow)

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Crimea

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March)


Damascus

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Darmstadt

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain


Delhi

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


Denmark

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

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

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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

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
* 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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Denver

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Denver, Colorado

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Dessau

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

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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee


Detmold

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


Detroit

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

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Dijon

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

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Dole (Franche-Comté)

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


Dombes, principality of

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


Dorsetshire

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Douai

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right


Dover

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Dresden

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

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

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act


Dublin

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

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

1862: United Kingdom
* Fine Art Copyright Act

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


East Greenwich, Rhode Island

1783: USA
  Rhode Island Copyright Statute


East Indies

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 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
* Copyright Act

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Ecuador

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Edinburgh

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

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
  Booksellers' Bill

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May)

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

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International 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

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Egypt

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March)

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

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Eichen (in Hanau district)

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker


England

1559: United Kingdom
  Day's The Cosmographical Glass

1559: United Kingdom
* Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass

1624: United Kingdom
* Statute of Monopolies

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1647: United Kingdom
  Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets

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

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

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

1690: United Kingdom
* Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts)

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

1695: United Kingdom
  Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act

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

1709: United Kingdom
  Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

1737: United Kingdom
  An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft)

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

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

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins

1762: United Kingdom
  A Vindication of the Rights of Authors

1762: United Kingdom
* An Enquiry into Literary Property

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

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

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1774: United Kingdom
  Enfield's Observations

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

1774: United Kingdom
  Macauley's A Modest Plea

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition

1783: USA
  Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

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

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

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

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1831: USA
  House Debate

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

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

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

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

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

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

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

1842: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

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

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

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

1862: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

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

1862: United Kingdom
* Fine Art Copyright Act

1862: USA
  Southern Feeling

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1883: USA
  Sarony's Brief

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: USA
  Committee on Patents Report

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Ephesus

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"


Erfurt

1485: Germany
  Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"


Europe

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

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

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

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

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

1783: USA
  Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

1790: France
* Sieyès' report

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

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1830: USA
  Judiciary Committee Report

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

1838: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July)

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

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

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

1842: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news

1861: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May)

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

1862: USA
  Southern Feeling

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Falkland Islands

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Falmouth

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard


Faroe Islands

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention


Farringdon

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Fayette County, Ohio

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument


Ferrara

1515: Italy
* Ariosto's Printing Privilege

1516: Italy
* Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor

1526: Italy
  Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna"


Finsbury

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

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Flanders

1568: Italy
* Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Florence

1502: Italy
  Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters

1503: Italy
* Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon

1526: Italy
  Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna"

1531: Italy
* Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1531: Italy
* Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1532: Italy
  Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's "History of Florence"

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

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

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

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

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


Florida

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Fontainebleau

1547: France
* French Censorship Act

1701: France
* Royal letters patent


Fontenay (dép. of the Seine)

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


Fort Morgan, Alabama

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Fort William (India)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill


Fossombrone, Marche region of Italy

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent


France

1559: United Kingdom
  Day's The Cosmographical Glass

1559: United Kingdom
* Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1649: France
  Book trade regulations

1660: France
* Decree on Engravings

1676: France
* Decree on Sculptures

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

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

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

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

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

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

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

1777: France
* Royal declaration on sculpture and painting

1790: France
* Sieyès' report

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

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

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

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1830: USA
  Judiciary Committee Report

1832: Germany
* Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.)

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
* Senate Report

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

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

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

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

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

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

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
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)

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

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
  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

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

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

1862: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May)

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1870: USA
  Committee Report on S.703

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

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1896: USA
  Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976)

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Frankfurt

1485: Germany
  Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz

1533: Germany
* Schott v. Egenolph

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

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

1660: Germany
* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker

1690: Germany
  Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

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

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

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

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Frankfurt (Oder)

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


Fredericton (New Brunswick)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Freiburg

1511: Germany
  Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger


Freyenthurm

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


Gelderland

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


Geneva

1547: France
* French Censorship Act

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

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

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

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


Genoa

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


Georgia

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Germany

1547: France
* French Censorship Act

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

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

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

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

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

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: USA
  Judiciary Committee Report

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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

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

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

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
* 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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1892: Germany
* Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A.

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Gibraltar

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Giessen

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


Glarus

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons


Glasgow

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

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

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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


Glogau

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


Goodman's Fields

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Goshen, New York

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster


Göttingen

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

1774: Germany
* Pütter: The Reprinting of Books

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

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna


Great Britain

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

1737: United Kingdom
  An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft)

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson

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

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

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1788: USA
  The Federalist No. 43

1789: USA
  Ramsay's Petition

1799: United Kingdom
  Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act

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

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

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

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 (18 July)

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 Independent Report

1836: United Kingdom
  Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
  Debates in Congress

1837: USA
  Petition of British Authors

1837: USA
* Senate Report

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1838: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

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: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing

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

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1847: United Kingdom
* Foreign Reprints 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: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

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

1862: USA
  Southern Feeling

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: USA
  Committee on Patents Report

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief


Greece

1762: United Kingdom
* An Enquiry into Literary Property

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right


Greene County, Ohio

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument


Greenland

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


Grenada

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Grenoble

1665: France
* French book trade regulations

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

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

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


Grimsby

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


Guatemala

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Guernsey

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 (7 June)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

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

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Guildford

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Guinea

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard


Haarlem

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report


Haiti

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Halberstadt

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting


Halifax (Canada)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Halle

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

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

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Hamburg

1659: Germany
* Schupp: The Book Thief

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

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

1774: Germany
* Pütter: The Reprinting of Books

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

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

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

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: Germany
  Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

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


Hamilton

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Hamilton Country, Ohio

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument


Hamilton County, Ohio

1879: USA
  Selden's Argument


Hammersmith

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Hanau

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker

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


Hanover

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

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna

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

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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

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


Hartford, Connecticut

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates


Haymarket

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Hechingen

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


Heidelberg

1511: Germany
* Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick


Heligoland

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Helmstädt

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


Herborn (in Hessen)

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker


Hessen

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

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

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

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Highlands

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Holland

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

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

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

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Holstein

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

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


Honduras

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Hong Kong

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Hull

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Iceland

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Idaho

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Illinois

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


India

1812: United Kingdom
  Petition of the London Booksellers

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

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

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Indiana

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Indianapolis

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Iowa

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Ipswich

1554: United Kingdom
  Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Ireland

1559: United Kingdom
  Day's The Cosmographical Glass

1559: United Kingdom
* Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass

1709: United Kingdom
  Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons

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

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1741: United Kingdom
* Pope v. Curl

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

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

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

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

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

1801: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

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

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 (10 May)

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

1836: United Kingdom
  Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

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

1838: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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

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

1842: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

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

1862: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1862: United Kingdom
* Fine Art Copyright Act

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
  Berne Convention


Isle of Man

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 (7 June)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

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

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property 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

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

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

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill


Italy

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent

1568: Italy
* Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1774: United Kingdom
  Macauley's A Modest Plea

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

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

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

1777: France
* Royal declaration on sculpture and painting

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

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

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Itzehoe

1793: Germany
* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting


Jamaica

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

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


Japan

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Jena

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

1794: Germany
* Contract between Schiller and Cotta

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right


Jersey

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

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 (7 June)

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: United Kingdom
  Dramatic Writings Bill

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

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Jersey City

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress


Jerusalem

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


Kansas

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Karlsruhe

1799: Germany
* Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code


Kehl (Baden-Württemberg)

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition


Kentucky

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

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief

1903: USA
* Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.


Kilmarnock

1773: United Kingdom
* Hinton v. Donaldson


Kingston, New York

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster


Knightsbridge

1799: United Kingdom
  Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act


Königgraz

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Königsberg

1793: Germany
* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting


Kreuznach

1799: Germany
* Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books


La Rochelle

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


Labuan

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Lagos

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Lahore

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


Lambeth

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Lancaster

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


Langres (arr. Haute-Marne)

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


Lauenburg

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

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


Lausanne

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

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Le Havre

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

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors


Leeds

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Leeward Islands

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Leicestershire

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Leipzig

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

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

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

1773: Germany
* Saxonian Statute

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1799: Germany
* Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1835: Germany
* Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

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: United Kingdom
  Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Lemgo

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

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Leyden

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise


Liberia

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976


Liège

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

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


Limoges

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

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

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


Lincoln

1558: United Kingdom
  Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine'

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Lincoln's Inn

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Lippe

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


Lippe-Detmold

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


Lisbon

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Liverpool

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Liverpool (Nova Scotia)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Livorno

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Lobenstein

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


London

1538: United Kingdom
* Henrician Proclamation

1553: United Kingdom
  John Day's Privilege for the Catechism

1553: United Kingdom
  William Seres' Printing Patent

1553: United Kingdom
* Totell's Printing Patent

1554: United Kingdom
  Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers

1557: United Kingdom
* Stationers' Charter

1558: United Kingdom
  Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine'

1559: United Kingdom
  Day's The Cosmographical Glass

1559: United Kingdom
  Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters

1559: United Kingdom
  Totell's patent for Common Law Books

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

1624: United Kingdom
* Statute of Monopolies

1637: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1647: United Kingdom
  Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets

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

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

1659: Germany
* Schupp: The Book Thief

1662: United Kingdom
  Licensing Act (parchment copy)

1662: United Kingdom
* Licensing Act

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

1690: United Kingdom
* Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts)

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

1695: United Kingdom
  Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act

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

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

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1751: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Walker

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1774: United Kingdom
  Macauley's A Modest Plea

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

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

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

1812: United Kingdom
  Petition of the London Booksellers

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers

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

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1833: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March)

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1838: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1839: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May)

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

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

1842: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing

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

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852: USA
  Copyright and Natural Right

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1870: USA
  Committee Report on S.703

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

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief


Louisiana

1834: USA
  Letters from Sumner to Story


Louisville (KY)

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


Louisville, Kentucky

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

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Lucca

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Luxembourg

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Lübeck

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

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

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

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


Lüneburg

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


Lyon

1502: Italy
  Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters

1503: Italy
* Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

1665: France
* French book trade regulations

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

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Madras

1838: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1840: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

1841: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill

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


Madrid

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

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news


Magdeburg

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


Maine

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1853: USA
  Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Mainz

1485: Germany
  Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz

1512: Germany
  Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

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


Malaga

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision


Maldon (Essex)

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence


Malta

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Manchester

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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


Marathon

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"


Markshall (Essex)

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


Marseille

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

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Maryland

1783: USA
  Maryland Copyright Statute

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Marylebone

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Massachusetts

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Massachusetts Bay

1672: USA
* Usher's Printing Privilege

1772: USA
  William Billings' Second Petition


Mauritius

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Mecklenburg

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


Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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


Meiningen

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

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


Meissen

1815: Germany
* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna


Melbourne

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Melton (Leicestershire)

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


Memphis, Tennessee

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Metz

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Mexico

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Mexico, Missouri

1896: USA
  Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976)


Middlesex

1647: United Kingdom
  Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets

1741: United Kingdom
  Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1751: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Walker

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1837: United Kingdom
  Copyright Bill (6 June)

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

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


Milan

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Milford, Connecticut

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition


Minas Basin (Nova Scotia)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Minneapolis

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Minnesota

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Missouri

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Mobile, Alabama

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Modena

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

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Monaco

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Mongolia

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket


Montauban (dép. of Tarn-et-Garonne)

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


Montevideo

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Montpellier

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


Montreal

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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


Moscow

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company


Moulins

1725: France
* Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum


Mülhausen

1739: Germany
  Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons


Nancy

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

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Naples

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

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


Nassau

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker

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

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


Nassau (Bahamas)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Natal

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Naxos

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"


Nazareth

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Nebraska

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Netherlands

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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

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

1709: United Kingdom
  Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

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

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

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

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of 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


Nevis

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


New Bedford

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


New Bedford, Massachusetts

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976


New Bern (North Carolina)

1746: USA
  North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners


New Brunswick

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


New England

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


New Haven

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


New Haven, Connecticut

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition


New Jersey

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


New Orleans

1834: USA
  Letters from Sumner to Story

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

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress


New South Wales

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


New York

1750: USA
  New York Law Printing Privilege

1772: USA
  Second New York Law Printing Privilege

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1786: USA
  New York Copyright Statute

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Peters

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1828: USA
  Letter from Peters to Donaldson

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
  Petition of British Authors

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

1841: USA
  Master in Chancery Report

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

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

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

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

1882: USA
  Oscar Wilde photograph

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1883: USA
  Sarony's Brief

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1891: USA
  Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.

1893: USA
  Falk v. Donaldson

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief


New Zealand

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Newcastle

1624: United Kingdom
* Statute of Monopolies

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


Newfoundland

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

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Niagara (Canada)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Nigeria

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright


Nîmes

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


Niort (dép. of Deux-Sèvres)

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


Normandy

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

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


North Carolina

1746: USA
  North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

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


Norway

1830: USA
  Judiciary Committee Report

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Norwich

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey


Nottingham

1624: United Kingdom
* Statute of Monopolies


Nova Scotia

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Noves

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


Nuremberg

1501: Germany
* Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica

1511: Germany
* Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer

1673: Germany
  Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance

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

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

1774: Germany
* Pütter: The Reprinting of Books

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right


Offenbach

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy


Ohio

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Oldenburg

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

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

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

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


Orkney Islands

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson


Orleans

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

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

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

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition


Ortenburg

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Ottawa

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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


Oxford

1586: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1710: United Kingdom
* Statute of Anne

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

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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


Oxford, Georgia

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


Paddington

1799: United Kingdom
  Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature


Padua

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1603: Italy
* Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints

1762: United Kingdom
* An Enquiry into Literary Property

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson


Paisley

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright


Paraguay

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Paris

1507: France
* Eloy d'Amerval's privilege

1515: France
* Galliot Du Pré's Privilege

1545: Italy
* Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence

1547: France
* French Censorship Act

1552: France
* General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard

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

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1649: France
  Book trade regulations

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

1660: France
* Decree on Engravings

1665: France
* French book trade regulations

1676: France
* Decree on Sculptures

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

1725: France
* Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1740: Germany
* Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books"

1749: France
* Crébillon case

1759: France
* Sieur d'Anville's contract

1761: France
* La Fontaine case

1762: France
* Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors

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

1770: France
* Luneau de Boisjermain's case

1776: France
* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1777: France
* Royal declaration on sculpture and painting

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1780: Italy
  Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges

1786: France
* French Decree on Musical Publications

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

1793: France
* French Literary and Artistic Property Act

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1833: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March)

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

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

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

1842: France
* Court of Cassation on artistic property

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1851: France
* SACEM's act of constitution

1851: United Kingdom
  Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1861: France
* Court of Cassation on telegraphic news

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1866: France
* Literary and artistic property act

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1882: Germany
  Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Parma

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

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


Peking

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


Pennsylvania

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: USA
  Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

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


Pergamon

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"


Péronne

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition


Persia

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

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


Peru

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Peru, Indiana

1900: USA
  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief


Petersham

1769: United Kingdom
* Millar v. Taylor


Pézenas (dép. of Hérault)

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


Philadelphia

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1784: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1784: USA
  Pennsylvania Copyright Statute

1790: USA
  Sample registrations

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Peters

1828: USA
  Letter from Peters to Donaldson

1830: USA
  Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr.

1834: USA
* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1838: USA
  Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

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

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

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill

1853: USA
  Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial

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

1888: USA
  The International Copyright Bill

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881

1896: USA
  Debate in Congress

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Picardy

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


Pietermaritzburg (Natal)

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


Pieton (Nova Scotia)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Pimlico

1832: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)


Pittsburgh

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


Plauen

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


Plymouth

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard


Poitiers

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


Poland

1643: United Kingdom
* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

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


Pontarlier (Franche-Comté)

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


Portland (Ontario)

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


Portland, Oregon

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


Portugal

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

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

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

1878: United Kingdom
* Royal Commissioners' Report

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Posen (Poznan)

1829: Germany
  Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting


Poughkeepsie, New York

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials


Prague

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

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing


Prince Edward Island

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

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Princeton

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster


Providence, Rhode Island

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


Prussia

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

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

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

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

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1838: Germany
  Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts

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

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

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

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
* Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

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

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1858: United Kingdom
  Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1863: USA
  International Copyright Resolution

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Putney

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson


Quebec

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright


Queensland

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1886: United Kingdom
  Berne Convention


Regensburg

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


Reims

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum


Reutlingen

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


Rhode Island

1783: USA
  Rhode Island Copyright Statute


Richmond

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright


Richmond, Virginia

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1863: USA
  Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial


Romagna region

1781: Italy
* "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings


Romania

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


Rome

1486: Italy
* Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege

1503: Italy
* Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon

1518: United Kingdom
* The Articles of the Pope's Bulle

1526: Italy
  Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna"

1531: Italy
* Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1531: Italy
* Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1538: United Kingdom
* Henrician Proclamation

1586: France
* Simon Marion's plea on privileges

1590: Italy
* Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1596: Italy
* Motu proprio controversy

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

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

1762: United Kingdom
* An Enquiry into 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

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

1790: France
* Sieyès' report

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

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

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

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

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

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

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


Rostock

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


Rouen

1665: France
* French book trade regulations

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

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1791: France
  Beaumarchais's petition

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


Rouses Point (New York)

1872: United Kingdom
  Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

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


Rudolstadt

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