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1511 : * Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany)

1512:   Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany)

1513: * Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany)

1525:   Luther's "Admonition to the Printers" (Germany)

1531: * Basel Printers' Statute (Germany)

1533: * Schott v. Egenolph (Germany)

1534:   Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany)

1541: * Luther's "Warning to the Printers" ( Germany)

1549: * Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany)

1591:   A publisher's "Friendly Reminder" about reprints (Germany)

1598:   Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance ( Germany)

1608: * "Books Constitution" of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany)

1657:   Preface to Silesius's Chant Book (Germany)

1659: * Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany)

1660: * Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)

1666:   Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker (Germany)

1673:   Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance ( Germany)

1675: * Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's "The Magic Bird's Nest" (Germany)

1690:   Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)

1690:   Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany)

1713:   Augsburg Printers' Ordinance ( Germany)

1739:   Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany)

1740: * Encyclopaedia Article on "The Reprinting of Books" (Germany)

1750:   Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany)

1765:   Reich v. Pauli (Germany)

1765: * Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany)

1766:   Prussian Cabinet Order (Germany)

1773:   On Klopstock's proclamation of a "Republic of Scholars" (Germany)

1773:   Reich: On Book Publishing ( Germany)

1773:   Reimarus: The publishing of books (Germany)

1773: * Saxonian Statute (Germany)

1774: The justified reprinter (Germany)

1774:   Booktrade in Austria (Germany)

1774:   Imperial Privilege for a reprint series (Germany)

1774:   The Justified Reprinter (Germany)

1774: * Pütter: The Reprinting of Books ( Germany)

1775:   Chodowiecki's Allegory "Works of Darkness" (Germany)

1781: * Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany)

1784:   Cella: On Reprinting of Books ( Germany)

1785:   Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's "Aeneid" (Germany)

1785: * Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany)

1786:   The Slandered Man (Germany)

1788:   On literature and the book trade in Austria (Germany)

1789:   Becker: On the property right in intellectual works (Germany)

1790:   J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban of reprinting [extended version] (Germany)

1790:   The Blue Man (pseudonym): Reprinting, contra and pro (Germany)

1790:   Vindication of property against robbery (Germany)

1790: * J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany)

1791:   Reimarus: Book Publishing ( Germany)

1792:   Knigge: On the Reprinting of Books (Germany)

1792:   Müller: On Publication Piracy (Germany)

1792:   Reimarus: Publishing right with regard to reprinting (Germany)

1793: * Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany)

1794: * Contract between Schiller and Cotta ( Germany)

1794: * Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany)

1796:   Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany)

1799: * Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany)

1806:   Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany)

1809: * Baden Civil Code (Germany)

1813:   Bavarian Penal Law Book (Germany)

1815: * Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany)

1821: * Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany)

1824: * Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books ( Germany)

1827: * Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany)

1827: * Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany)

1829:   Hessen Copyright Act (Germany)

1829:   Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany)

1829:   Printing statutes in the Canton of Zürich (Germany)

1830: * Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany)

1832: * Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany)

1834:   Review of Neustetel's book ( Germany)

1835: * Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany)

1837: * Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany)

1837: * Prussian Copyright Act (Germany)

1838:   Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)

1840:   Hölzl: On Reprinting of books (Germany)

1840: * Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany)

1844: Commentary on the Saxon Copyright Act ( Germany)

1844: * Saxon Copyright Act (Germany)

1846:   Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany)

1846:   Handbook of German press legislation (Germany)

1846: * Austrian Copyright Act (Germany)

1846: * Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany)

1848:   Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association 1838-1847 (Germany)

1852:   Theory of Reprinting. Presented according to the directives of the German Confederation (Germany)

1853:   Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain (Germany)

1853: * Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany )

1857: * Wächter: "Publishing Right" ( Germany)

1867: * Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 (Germany)

1867: * Schäffle: "Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities" (Germany)

1870:   Societies of Copyright Experts ( Germany)

1870: * Copyright Act for the German Empire ( Germany)

1876: * Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany)

1877: * Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany)

1880: * Kohler: Author's Right (Germany)

1882:   Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany)

1884: * Orelli: "Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices" (Germany)

1891:   50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)

1892: * Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. (Germany)

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