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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: | Language: English 1518 : * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) 1538: * Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) 1553: John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom) 1553: William Seres' Printing Patent ( United Kingdom) 1553: * Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) 1554: Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) 1557: The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) 1557: * Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) 1558: Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) 1558: Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) 1559: Day's The Cosmographical Glass ( United Kingdom) 1559: Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom) 1559: Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) 1559: Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) 1559: * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) 1559: * Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom ) 1566: * Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) 1586: * Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) 1618: Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom) 1624: * Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) 1637: * Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) 1643: An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) 1643: * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) 1644: Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom) 1647: Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) 1649: An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) 1653: An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) 1662: Licensing Act (parchment copy) ( United Kingdom) 1662: * Licensing Act (United Kingdom) 1663: L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) 1667: Recital of the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) 1667: * Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) 1672: * Usher's Printing Privilege (USA) 1684: Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) 1690: * Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) 1693: Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) 1695: Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) 1700: Bladen's Privilege (USA) 1704: * Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) 1706: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1709: More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom) 1710: A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1710: * Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) 1721: Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) 1721: Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom) 1721: * Burnet v. Chetwood (United Kingdom) 1729: Gay v. Read (United Kingdom) 1735: Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) 1735: The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) 1735: * Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1737: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) 1737: * Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) 1737: * Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) 1741: Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom) 1741: Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) 1741: Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom) 1741: * Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) ( United Kingdom) 1741: * Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) 1746: North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (USA) 1747: * Warburton's Letter from an Author ( United Kingdom) 1750: New York Law Printing Privilege ( USA) 1751: Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) 1761: Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom ) 1762: A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom) 1762: * An Enquiry into Literary Property ( United Kingdom) 1762: * Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) 1766: Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) 1766: Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1769: * Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) 1772: Second New York Law Printing Privilege (USA) 1772: William Billings' Printing Privilege (USA) 1772: William Billings' Second Petition (USA) 1773: Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) 1773: Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) 1773: * Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) 1774: Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom ) 1774: Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) 1774: Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) 1774: Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom) 1774: Stella's Modest Exceptions ( United Kingdom) 1774: The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) 1774: The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom) 1774: * Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) 1775: * Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) 1777: Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1777: * Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) 1781: Andrew Law's Privilege (USA) 1781: * Andrew Law's Petition (USA) 1782: Letter from Smith to Webster (USA ) 1783: Continental Congress Resolution ( USA) 1783: Ledyard Petition Committee Report (USA) 1783: Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (USA) 1783: Maryland Copyright Statute (USA) 1783: Massachusetts Copyright Statute ( USA) 1783: New Hampshire Copyright Statute ( USA) 1783: New Jersey Copyright Statute (USA ) 1783: Petition of John Ledyard (USA) 1783: Rhode Island Copyright Statute ( USA) 1783: * Connecticut Copyright Statute (USA) 1784: Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (USA) 1784: Pennsylvania Copyright Statute ( USA) 1784: South Carolina Copyright Statute (USA) 1785: North Carolina Copyright Statute (USA) 1785: Virginia Copyright Statute (USA) 1786: Georgia Copyright Statute (USA) 1786: New York Copyright Statute (USA) 1787: Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) 1787: Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (USA) 1787: Madison's Edited Journal Record ( USA) 1787: Madison's Journal Record (USA) 1787: * Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) 1788: The Federalist No. 43 (USA) 1789: House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (USA) 1789: Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (USA) 1789: Ramsay's Petition (USA) 1789: Ramsay's Petiton House Record ( USA) 1789: * The Constitutional Copyright Clause ( USA) 1790 : Sample registrations (USA) 1790: * Copyright Act (USA) 1792: Purcell's Printing Privilege (USA ) 1798: Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) 1798: * Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) 1798: * Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) 1799: Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) 1801: A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1801: Copyright Act (parchment copy) ( United Kingdom) 1801: * Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1802: 1802 Amendment (USA) 1812: Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom) 1813: Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) 1813: Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom) 1813: Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom) 1813: Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) 1813: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) 1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom) 1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom) 1814: Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1814: * Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1818: Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) 1818: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) 1826: Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster (USA) 1826: Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (USA) 1828: H.R. 140 Committee Bill (USA) 1828: H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (USA) 1828: Letter from Donaldson to Peters ( USA) 1828: Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton (USA) 1828: Letter from Peters to Donaldson ( USA) 1828: * Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) 1830: Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) 1830: Judiciary Committee Report (USA) 1830: Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (USA) 1831: House Debate (USA) 1831: * Copyright Act (USA) 1832: Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) 1832: Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) 1833: Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom) 1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) 1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) 1833: * Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) 1834: Letters from Sumner to Story (USA ) 1834: * Wheaton v. Peters (USA) 1834: * Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report ( USA) 1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (United Kingdom) 1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) (United Kingdom) 1835: Publication of Lectures Bill ( United Kingdom) 1835: * Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) 1836: Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act (United Kingdom) 1837: Address of Certain Authors (USA) 1837: Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) 1837: Debates in Congress (USA) 1837: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (USA) 1837: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom) 1837: Petition of British Authors (USA) 1837: * Senate Report (USA) 1838: Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1838: Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) 1838: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (USA) 1838: Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (USA) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) (United Kingdom) 1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) 1838: Report, from the Committee on Patents (USA) 1838: * International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1839: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom) 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) (United Kingdom) 1840: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) (United Kingdom) 1841: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) 1841: Master in Chancery Report (USA) 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom) 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom) 1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1841: S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (USA) 1841: * Folsom v. Marsh (USA) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) (United Kingdom) 1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) 1842: Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (USA) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) 1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) 1842: * Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1842: * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) 1843: An Address to the People of the United States (USA) 1844: H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (USA) 1844: International Copyright Bill ( United Kingdom) 1844: * International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1847: Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom) 1847: * A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (USA ) 1847: * Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) 1848: Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (USA) 1851: Anglo-French Copyright Treaty ( United Kingdom) 1852: Copyright and Natural Right (USA) 1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom) 1852: * International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1853: Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (USA) 1853: Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom) 1853: British-American Copyright Convention Draft (USA) 1853: Letters on International copyright (USA) 1853: Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (USA) 1853: Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (USA) 1853: "Uncle Tom" at Law (USA) 1853: * Stowe v. Thomas (USA) 1854: * Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) 1856: * Copyright Act Amendment (USA) 1857: Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) 1858: Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom) 1861: Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) 1861: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom) 1861: * Confederate States of America Copyright Act (USA) 1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) 1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom) 1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) (United Kingdom) 1862: Southern Feeling (USA) 1862: * Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1863: Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (USA) 1863: Hardee's Memorial (USA) 1863: International Copyright Resolution (USA) 1865: * Copyright Act Amendment (USA) 1870: Committee Report on S.703 (USA) 1870: * Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) 1870: * Copyright Act (USA) 1872: Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) 1872: International Copyright Bill (USA ) 1873: Committee on the Library Report ( USA) 1874: Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) 1878: Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) 1878: * Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) 1879: Baker's Argument (USA) 1879: Copyright Consolidation Bill ( United Kingdom) 1879: Selden's Argument (USA) 1879: * Baker v. Selden (USA) 1879: * Drone on Copyright (USA) 1882: Oscar Wilde photograph (USA) 1883: Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (USA) 1883: Burrow-Giles' Brief (USA) 1883: Sarony's Brief (USA) 1885: Carte v. Duff (USA) 1886: Berne Convention (United Kingdom) 1886: Committee on Patents Report (USA) 1886: Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) 1886: International Copyright Bill ( United Kingdom) 1886: * International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) 1888: American Authors and British Pirates (USA) 1888: The International Copyright Bill (USA) 1890: Report on H.R. 10881 (USA) 1891: Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. ( USA) 1891: * International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (USA) 1893: Falk v. Donaldson (USA) 1894: H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (USA) 1894: Report on H.R. 6835 (USA) 1896: Debate in Congress (USA) 1896: Hearing on H.R. 5976 (USA) 1896: Public Performance Bill (USA) 1896: Report on H.R. 1978 (USA) 1896: Report on S. 2306 (USA) 1896: The Question of Copyright (USA) 1896: Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (USA) 1897: * Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (USA) 1899: Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (USA) 1900: Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (USA) 1902: Bleistein's Brief (USA) 1902: Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (USA) 1902: Bleistein: Three Posters (USA) 1903: Bleistein: Cartoon (USA) 1903: * Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (USA) | ||||||
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