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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Core documents by: ![]() Date Place ![]() ![]() Core documents for: ![]() Italy Germany France Britain United States ![]() ![]() All documents for: ![]() Italy Germany France Britain United States ![]() Original language: ![]() English French German Italian Latin ![]() Browse documents by: ![]() Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law ![]() Browse commentaries by: ![]() Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law ![]() Browse database by: ![]() Key words ![]() Editors' login: ![]() ![]() | Documents for German speaking countries (* indicates core document) 1479 : * Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1485: Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz 1501: * Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica 1502: Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis 1511: * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1511: * Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer 1511: Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger 1511: Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg 1512: Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick 1513: * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin 1516: Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck 1516: Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria 1525: Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" 1531: * Basel Printers' Statute 1533: * Schott v. Egenolph 1534: Privilege of the Elector of Saxony 1541: * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" 1549: * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 1560: Counterfeited papal privilege 1591: A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints 1598: Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1608: * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II 1657: Preface to Silesius's Chant Book 1659: * Schupp: The Book Thief 1660: * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1666: Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker 1673: Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance 1675: * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" 1690: Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance 1690: Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges 1713: Augsburg Printers' Ordinance 1738: * Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books 1739: Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons 1740: * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" 1750: Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders 1765: * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel 1765: Reich v. Pauli 1766: Prussian Cabinet Order 1773: * Saxonian Statute 1773: Reimarus: The publishing of books 1773: Reich: On Book Publishing 1773: On Klopstock's proclamation of a "Republic of Scholars" 1774: * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books 1774: The Justified Reprinter 1774: Imperial Privilege for a reprint series 1774: The justified reprinter 1774: Booktrade in Austria 1775: Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" 1781: * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing 1784: Cella: On Reprinting of Books 1785: * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1785: Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" 1786: The Slandered Man 1788: On literature and the book trade in Austria 1789: Becker: On the property right in intellectual works 1790: The Blue Man (pseudonym): Reprinting, contra and pro 1790: Vindication of property against robbery 1790: * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire 1790: J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban of reprinting [extended version] 1791: Reimarus: Book Publishing 1791: Fauth: On reprinting of books without the knowledge and consent of the first publisher 1792: Knigge: On the Reprinting of Books 1792: Müller: On Publication Piracy 1792: Reimarus: Publishing right with regard to reprinting 1793: * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting 1794: * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) 1794: * Contract between Schiller and Cotta 1796: Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges 1799: * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books 1806: Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden 1809: * Baden Civil Code 1813: Bavarian Penal Law Book 1815: * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna 1821: * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property 1824: * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books 1827: * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States 1827: * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers 1829: Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting 1829: Printing statutes in the Canton of Zürich 1829: Hessen Copyright Act 1830: * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy 1832: * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays 1834: Review of Neustetel's book 1835: * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia 1837: * Prussian Copyright Act 1837: * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation 1838: Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts 1840: * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia 1840: Hölzl: On Reprinting of books 1844: * Saxon Copyright Act 1844: Commentary on the Saxon Copyright Act 1846: * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain 1846: Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus 1846: * Austrian Copyright Act 1846: Handbook of German press legislation 1848: Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association 1838-1847 1852: Theory of Reprinting. Presented according to the directives of the German Confederation 1853: Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain 1853: * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights 1857: * Wächter: "Publishing Right" 1867: * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" 1867: * Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 1870: * Copyright Act for the German Empire 1870: Societies of Copyright Experts 1876: * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs 1877: * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights 1880: * Kohler: Author's Right 1882: Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France 1884: * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" 1891: 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 1892: * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. | ||||||
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