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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.

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK