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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: France Italy Germany United Kingdom United States All documents for: France Italy Germany United Kingdom 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 1624 : * Statute of Monopolies 1637 : * Star Chamber Decree 1643 : * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company 1643 : An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing 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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