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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 up 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 : * Electoral Saxony's Statute (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)

1823 :   Reprinting of Books (Germany)

1824 : * Neustetel: 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 : * 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)

1859 : * Gerber: Rights of Authors and Publishers (Germany)

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

1867 : * Schäffle: Economic Theory (Germany)

1870 :   Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)

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

1874 :   Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association (Germany)

1876 : Klostermann: Copyright Treatise (Germany)

1876 :   Klostermann: On Authors Right (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 Empire and the United States of America (Germany)

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