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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: |
Introduction This is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond. The initial phase focuses on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States. For each of these geographical zones/jurisdictions, a national editor has taken responsibility for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating and commenting documents. These include privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts and materials relating to legislative history, but also contemporary letters, essays, treatises and artefacts. The national editors’ brief was to limit the selection to 50 core documents for Germany, France and Britain, and to 20 core documents for Italy and the US (these covering only a shorter period). Document selections have been scrutinized by an international advisory board. Ultimate responsibility rests with the five national editors: Britain: Dr Ronan Deazley, University of Birmingham German speaking countries: Dr Friedemann Kawohl, Bournemouth University Italy: Dr Joanna Kostylo, University of Cambridge France: Dr Frédéric Rideau, Université de Poitiers United States: Dr Oren Bracha, University of Texas The database and website has been designed by Karin Hoehne of Universität Köln, based on the open source Kleio system developed at the HKI Institute (Professor Manfred Thaller). http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de The project is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Please cite this resource as: Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org). URLs for each document will be permanent, following the launch at Stationers’ Hall, London on 19 March 2008. Professor Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge Professor Martin Kretschmer, Bournemouth University General Editors, Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org) Browse records by categories or try our graphical interface to browse by periods of time. 
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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK
Copyright statement You may copy and distribute the translations and commentaries in this resource, or parts of such translations and commentaries, in any medium, for non-commercial purposes as long as the authorship of the commentaries and translations is acknowledged, and you indicate the source as Bently & Kretschmer (eds), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org). You may not publish these documents for any commercial purposes, including charging a fee for providing access to these documents via a network. This licence does not affect your statutory rights of fair dealing. Although the original documents in this database are in the public domain, we are unable to grant you the right to reproduce or duplicate some of these documents in so far as the images or scans are protected by copyright or we have only been able to reproduce them here by giving contractual undertakings. For the status of any particular images, please consult the information relating to copyright in the bibliographic records. | |||||