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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 Britain (* indicates core document) 1518 : * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle 1538: * Henrician Proclamation 1553: * Totell's Printing Patent 1553: William Seres' Printing Patent 1553: John Day's Privilege for the Catechism 1554: Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers 1557: * Stationers' Charter 1557: The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter 1558: Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' 1558: Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid 1559: * Elizabethan Injunctions 1559: Day's The Cosmographical Glass 1559: * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass 1559: Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books 1559: Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters 1559: Totell's patent for Common Law Books 1566: * Star Chamber Decree 1586: * Star Chamber Decree 1618: Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England 1624: * Statute of Monopolies 1637: * Star Chamber Decree 1643: * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1643: An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 1644: Milton's Areopagitica 1647: Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets 1649: An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets 1653: An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] 1662: * Licensing Act 1662: Licensing Act (parchment copy) 1663: L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals 1667: * Milton's Contract 1667: Recital of the Stationers' Charter 1684: Stationers' Charter 1690: * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) 1693: Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act 1695: Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act 1704: * Defoe's Essay on the Press 1706: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning 1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons 1710: * Statute of Anne 1710: A Bill for Encouragement of Learning 1721: * Burnet v. Chetwood 1721: Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer 1721: Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders 1729: Gay v. Read 1735: * Engravers' Copyright Act 1735: The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. 1735: Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1737: * Booksellers' Bill 1737: * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1737: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) 1741: * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) 1741: * Pope v. Curl 1741: Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) 1741: Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer 1741: Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders 1747: * Warburton's Letter from an Author 1751: Tonson v. Walker 1761: Tonson v. Collins 1762: * Tonson v. Collins 1762: * An Enquiry into Literary Property 1762: A Vindication of the Rights of Authors 1766: Engravers' Copyright Act 1766: Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) 1769: * Millar v. Taylor 1773: * Hinton v. Donaldson 1773: Information for Messrs John Hinton et al 1773: Information for Alexander Donaldson 1774: * Donaldson v. Becket 1774: Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property 1774: The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents 1774: The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House 1774: Booksellers' Bill 1774: Enfield's Observations 1774: Macauley's A Modest Plea 1774: Stella's Modest Exceptions 1775: * Stationers' Company v. Carnan 1777: * Bach v. Longman 1777: Engravers' Copyright Act 1787: * Calico Printers' Act 1787: Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) 1798: * Models and Busts Act 1798: * Beckford v. Hood 1798: Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) 1799: Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act 1801: * Copyright Act 1801: A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning 1801: Copyright Act (parchment copy) 1812: Petition of the London Booksellers 1813: Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster 1813: Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers 1813: Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright 1813: Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning 1813: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1814: * Copyright Act 1814: Sculpture Copyright Act 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) 1818: Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts 1818: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence 1828: * Maugham's Treatise 1830: Dramatic Writings Bill 1832: Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature 1832: Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) 1833: * Dramatic Literary Property Act 1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) 1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) 1833: Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property 1835: * Publication of Lectures Act 1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) 1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) 1835: Publication of Lectures Bill 1836: Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act 1837: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) 1837: Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: * International Copyright Act 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) 1838: Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1838: Copyright Bill (6 June) 1839: Copyright Bill 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) 1840: Copyright Bill 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) 1841: Copyright Bill 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) 1842: * Copyright Act 1842: * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) 1844: * International Copyright Act 1844: International Copyright Bill 1847: * Foreign Reprints Act 1847: Foreign Reprints Bill 1851: Anglo-French Copyright Treaty 1852: * International Copyright Act 1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) 1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) 1853: Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright 1854: * Jeffreys v. Boosey 1857: Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints 1858: Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee 1861: Fine Art Copyright Bill 1861: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) 1862: * Fine Art Copyright Act 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) 1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) 1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) 1870: * Copinger's Law of Copyright 1872: Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright 1874: Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright 1878: * Royal Commissioners' Report 1878: Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence 1879: Copyright Consolidation Bill 1886: * International Copyright Act 1886: International Copyright Bill 1886: Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union 1886: Berne Convention | ||||||
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