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abridgements

1660: Germany
* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1690: Germany
  Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges

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

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

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

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

1741: United Kingdom
* Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports)

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

1774: United Kingdom
  Enfield's Observations

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

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

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Peters

1833: United Kingdom
* Dramatic Literary Property Act

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

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

1841: USA
* Folsom v. Marsh

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1853: USA
  "Uncle Tom" at Law

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

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: USA
* Drone on Copyright

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976


academic freedom

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

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"


adaptation

1690: Germany
  Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges

1777: United Kingdom
  Engravers' Copyright Act

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code

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

1832: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

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

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1870: USA
  Committee Report on S.703

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

1879: United Kingdom
  Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876


adaptation [musical]

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent


advertising

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1891: USA
  Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.

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

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

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Three Posters

1903: USA
* Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.


almanacs

1501: Germany
* Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica

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

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

1649: France
  Book trade regulations

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1775: United Kingdom
* Stationers' Company v. Carnan

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1821: Germany
* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property

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

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876


Anglo-American

1783: USA
  Petition of John Ledyard

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
  Debates in Congress

1837: USA
  Petition of British Authors

1837: USA
* Senate Report

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

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

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

1847: United Kingdom
* Foreign Reprints Act

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

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

1852: USA
  Copyright and Natural Right

1853: USA
  British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: USA
  Letters on International copyright

1854: United Kingdom
* Jeffreys v. Boosey

1862: USA
  Southern Feeling

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1870: USA
  Committee Report on S.703

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

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1886: USA
  Committee on Patents Report

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


anonymous works

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

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

1660: Germany
* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

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

1737: United Kingdom
* Booksellers' Bill

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing

1794: Germany
* Contract between Schiller and Cotta

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

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

1838: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

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

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act

1844: United Kingdom
  International Copyright Bill

1844: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

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


anthologies

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent

1741: United Kingdom
* Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports)

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

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code

1821: Germany
* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire


applied art, protected subject matter

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

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

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

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

1844: USA
  H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill)

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

1870: USA
* Copyright Act

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

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

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

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876


architecture, protected subject matter

1766: United Kingdom
  Engravers' Copyright Act

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

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


arrangement

1511: Germany
* Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

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

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1882: Germany
* Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1886: United Kingdom
  Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union


art market

1660: France
* Decree on Engravings

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

1735: United Kingdom
* Engravers' Copyright Act

1777: France
* King's declaration on sculpture and painting

1798: United Kingdom
* Models and Busts Act

1853: United Kingdom
  Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

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

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

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

1862: United Kingdom
* Fine Art Copyright Act

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

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1896: USA
  Hearing on H.R. 5976


attribute, obligation to

1637: United Kingdom
* Star Chamber Decree

1657: Germany
  Preface to Silesius's Chant Book

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

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1852: United Kingdom
* International Copyright Act

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1870: USA
  Committee Report on S.703

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

1882: Germany
* Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France

1885: USA
  Carte v. Duff

1891: Germany
  50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876


authenticity

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

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

1660: Germany
* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1673: Germany
  Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance

1686: France
* Book trade regulations

1690: Germany
  Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

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

1713: Germany
  Augsburg Printers' Ordinance

1773: Germany
* Electoral Saxony's Statute

1781: Germany
* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing

1806: Germany
  Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden

1814: United Kingdom
  Sculpture Copyright Act

1830: Germany
* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy

1837: USA
  Debates in Congress

1837: USA
  Petition of British Authors

1838: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

1844: Germany
* Saxon Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

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

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


authorial conscience

1486: Italy
* Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege


authorship

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent


authorship, corporate

1486: Italy
* Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege

1501: Germany
* Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica

1714: France
* Decree on Fine Arts

1837: Germany
* Prussian Copyright Act

1840: Germany
* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia

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

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

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

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


authorship, joint or collaborative

1474: Italy
* Statute on Industrial Brevets

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

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

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

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

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1896: USA
  The Question of Copyright


authorship, legal concept of

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

1660: Germany
* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance

1667: United Kingdom
* Milton's Contract

1690: Germany
  Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

1735: United Kingdom
* Engravers' Copyright Act

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

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

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

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

1750: Germany
  Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Alexander Donaldson

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1774: United Kingdom
  Enfield's Observations

1774: United Kingdom
* Donaldson v. Becket

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

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

1798: United Kingdom
* Beckford v. Hood

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1814: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May)

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1828: USA
  Letter from Peters to Donaldson

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

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

1842: France
* Court of Cassation on artistic property

1846: Germany
* Austrian Copyright Act

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1861: United Kingdom
  Fine Art Copyright Bill

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1870: Germany
* Copyright Act for the German Empire

1870: United Kingdom
* Copinger's Law of Copyright

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

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

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief


authorship, romantic concept of

1660: France
* Decree on Engravings

1783: USA
  Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act

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

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1814: United Kingdom
* Copyright Act

1834: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

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

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

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

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

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

1873: USA
  Committee on the Library Report

1880: Germany
* Kohler: Author's Right

1902: France
* Court of Cassation on moral rights


authorship, romantic theory of

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

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

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right


authorship, theory of

1474: Italy
* Statute on Industrial Brevets

1666: Germany
  Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker

1721: United Kingdom
* Burnet v. Chetwood

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1777: United Kingdom
* Bach v. Longman

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1785: Germany
* Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting

1787: United Kingdom
* Calico Printers' Act

1790: USA
* Copyright Act

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

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on sculptures

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

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

1841: USA
* Folsom v. Marsh

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

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus

1853: Germany
  Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1857: Germany
* Wächter: "Publishing Right"

1862: France
* Court of Cassation on photography

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1869: France
* Court of Cassation on originality

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

1878: France
* Morillot on the author's right

1879: USA
  Baker's Argument

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

1883: USA
  Burrow-Giles' Brief

1883: USA
  Sarony's Brief

1891: USA
  Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.

1893: USA
  Falk v. Donaldson

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

1902: USA
  Bleistein's Brief

1902: USA
  Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief

1903: USA
* Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.


authors' permission to print

1545: Italy
* Decree on Author-Printer Relations


authors' remuneration

1507: France
* Eloy d'Amerval's privilege

1525: Germany
  Luther's "Admonition to the Printers"

1558: United Kingdom
  Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid

1667: United Kingdom
* Milton's Contract

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

1725: France
* Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

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

1749: France
* Crébillon's case

1759: France
* Sieur d'Anville's contract

1761: United Kingdom
  Tonson v. Collins

1762: France
* Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors

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

1765: Germany
  Reich v. Pauli

1772: USA
  William Billings' Printing Privilege

1772: USA
  William Billings' Second Petition

1774: United Kingdom
  Enfield's Observations

1774: United Kingdom
  Stella's Modest Exceptions

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

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1780: France
* Dramatic Act

1781: USA
  Andrew Law's Privilege

1781: USA
* Andrew Law's Petition

1782: USA
  Letter from Smith to Webster

1783: USA
  Ledyard Petition Committee Report

1783: USA
  New Hampshire Copyright Statute

1783: USA
  New Jersey Copyright Statute

1783: USA
  Rhode Island Copyright Statute

1785: USA
  North Carolina Copyright Statute

1786: USA
  Georgia Copyright Statute

1786: USA
  New York Copyright Statute

1788: USA
  The Federalist No. 43

1789: USA
  House Joint copyright and patent bill decision

1789: USA
  Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10]

1789: USA
  Ramsay's Petition

1789: USA
  Ramsay's Petiton House Record

1789: USA
* The Constitutional Copyright Clause

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

1790: USA
* Copyright Act

1791: France
* Le Chapelier's report

1793: France
* Literary and Artistic Property Act

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

1794: Germany
* Contract between Schiller and Cotta

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1799: United Kingdom
  Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act

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

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1828: United Kingdom
* Maugham's Treatise

1828: USA
  Letter from Peters to Donaldson

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: France
* Balzac's letter to authors

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

1837: USA
  Debates in Congress

1837: USA
  Petition of British 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: USA
  Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1838: USA
  Report, from the Committee on Patents

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

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

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

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

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

1842: France
* Court of Cassation on artistic property

1842: United Kingdom
  Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.)

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

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

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

1846: Germany
  Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus

1847: USA
* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848: USA
  Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852: USA
  Copyright and Natural Right

1853: USA
  Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

1853: USA
* Stowe v. Thomas

1862: France
* Proudhon: "Les Majorats littéraires"

1863: USA
  Hardee's Memorial

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

1888: USA
  American Authors and British Pirates

1890: USA
  Report on H.R. 10881


authors'rights

1545: Italy
* Decree on Author-Printer Relations


authors, self-publishing

1507: France
* Eloy d'Amerval's privilege

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

1737: United Kingdom
* Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders

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

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

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

1770: France
* Luneau de Boisjermain's case

1773: United Kingdom
  Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1785: Germany
* Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1798: United Kingdom
* Beckford v. Hood

1809: Germany
* Baden Civil Code

1812: United Kingdom
  Petition of the London Booksellers

1813: United Kingdom
  Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1837: USA
  Address of Certain Authors

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


author's remuneration

1802: USA
  1802 Amendment


author/publisher relations

1498: Italy
* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent

1507: France
* Eloy d'Amerval's privilege

1659: Germany
* Schupp: The Book Thief

1667: United Kingdom
* Milton's Contract

1673: Germany
  Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance

1725: France
* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum

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

1750: Germany
  Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders

1759: France
* Sieur d'Anville's contract

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

1765: Germany
  Reich v. Pauli

1773: Germany
* Electoral Saxony's Statute

1774: United Kingdom
  The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

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

1777: France
* Linguet's memorandum

1778: France
* Pluquet's letters

1785: Germany
* Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting

1790: USA
* Copyright Act

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

1794: Germany
* Contract between Schiller and Cotta

1794: Germany
* Prussian Statute Book (ALR)

1813: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814: France
* Court of Cassation on compilations

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

1818: United Kingdom
  Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1826: France
* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission

1826: USA
  Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1828: USA
  Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1837: USA
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