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1672 : * Usher's Printing Privilege

1700:   Bladen's Privilege

1746:   North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners

1750:   New York Law Printing Privilege

1772:   Second New York Law Printing Privilege

1772:   William Billings' Second Petition

1772:   William Billings' Printing Privilege

1781: * Andrew Law's Petition

1781:   Andrew Law's Privilege

1782:   Letter from Smith to Webster

1783:   Petition of John Ledyard

1783: * Connecticut Copyright Statute

1783:   Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

1783:   Continental Congress Resolution

1783:   Massachusetts Copyright Statute

1783:   Maryland Copyright Statute

1783:   New Jersey Copyright Statute

1783:   New Hampshire Copyright Statute

1783:   Rhode Island Copyright Statute

1783:   Ledyard Petition Committee Report

1784:   Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

1784:   Pennsylvania Copyright Statute

1784:   South Carolina Copyright Statute

1785:   Virginia Copyright Statute

1785:   North Carolina Copyright Statute

1786:   Georgia Copyright Statute

1786:   New York Copyright Statute

1787:   Constitutional Convention Journal Entry

1787:   Madison's Journal Record

1787:   Madison's Edited Journal Record

1788:   The Federalist No. 43

1789: * The Constitutional Copyright Clause

1789:   Ramsay's Petiton House Record

1789:   House Joint copyright and patent bill decision

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

1789:   Ramsay's Petition

1790: * Copyright Act

1790 :   Sample registrations

1792:   Purcell's Printing Privilege

1802:   1802 Amendment

1826:   Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster

1826:   Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster

1828:   Letter from Donaldson to Peters

1828:   Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton

1828:   Letter from Peters to Donaldson

1828:   H.R. 140 Committee Bill

1828:   H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill

1830:   Judiciary Committee Report

1830:   Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr.

1831: * Copyright Act

1831:   House Debate

1834: * Wheaton v. Peters

1834: * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report

1834:   Letters from Sumner to Story

1837: * Senate Report

1837:   Address of Certain Authors

1837:   Petition of British Authors

1837:   Debates in Congress

1837:   Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States

1838:   Report, from the Committee on Patents

1838:   Memorial of the New York Typographical Society

1838:   Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston

1841: * Folsom v. Marsh

1841:   Master in Chancery Report

1841:   S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill)

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

1843:   An Address to the People of the United States

1844:   H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill)

1847: * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright

1848:   Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials

1852:   Copyright and Natural Right

1853:   Letters on International copyright

1853:   British-American Copyright Convention Draft

1853: * Stowe v. Thomas

1853:   Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill

1853:   Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer

1853:   Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe

1853:   "Uncle Tom" at Law

1856: * Copyright Act Amendment

1861: * Confederate States of America Copyright Act

1862:   Southern Feeling

1863:   Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement

1863:   Hardee's Memorial

1863:   International Copyright Resolution

1865: * Copyright Act Amendment

1870:   Committee Report on S.703

1870: * Copyright Act

1872:   International Copyright Bill

1873:   Committee on the Library Report

1879: * Drone on Copyright

1879: * Baker v. Selden

1879:   Selden's Argument

1879:   Baker's Argument

1882:   Oscar Wilde photograph

1883:   Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

1883:   Sarony's Brief

1883:   Burrow-Giles' Brief

1885:   Carte v. Duff

1886:   Committee on Patents Report

1888:   American Authors and British Pirates

1888:   The International Copyright Bill

1890:   Report on H.R. 10881

1891:   Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.

1891: * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act)

1893:   Falk v. Donaldson

1894:   Report on H.R. 6835

1894:   H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill)

1896:   Public Performance Bill

1896:   Report on H.R. 1978

1896:   Report on S. 2306

1896:   Hearing on H.R. 5976

1896:   Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976)

1896:   Debate in Congress

1896:   The Question of Copyright

1897: * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions)

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

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

1902:   Bleistein's Brief

1902:   Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief

1902:   Bleistein: Three Posters

1903: * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.

1903:   Bleistein: Cartoon

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