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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: | 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) 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) 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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