PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)


This is a freely-accessible, publicly-funded digital archive that collects together significant documents relating to the history of copyright law and practice. The documents have been selected by national editors, with the input of an editorial advisory board. Key documents are, where appropriate, transcribed and translated. The editors have written commentaries, explaining the reasons for selecting documents and their significance. The project was launched in 2008, initially funded by the AHRC in relation to 5 countries. Since 2024 it is supported by the AHRC as UK research infrastructure. The archive now extends to more than 20 (including historical and religious) jurisdictions and over 700 primary source documents. They can be browsed by date/language/jurisdiction, or searched.


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1516* Privilege for the Divisiekroniek (Netherlands) Commentary: [1]
1570Ordinance concerning Printers, Booksellers and School masters (Netherlands) Commentary: [1]
1579Privilege for the Deux-Aes Bible (Netherlands) Commentary: [1][2]
1608The States-General's ban on certain publications of the 'Bycorff' (Netherlands)
1625-1626* Resolutions concerning the Dutch School Order (Netherlands)
1632* Privilege for the States Bible (Netherlands)
1660The 'Fixed and Indissoluble' Contract of Printers and Booksellers (Netherlands)
1669* Revocation of the Privilege granted to Pieter Hackens (Netherlands)
1686Resolution concerning the Grant of Book Privileges (Netherlands)
1710Willing Agreement of Booksellers in Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, etc. (Netherlands)
1710General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden (Netherlands)
1715* Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges (Netherlands)
1728* Notice against the Printing of Books under the names of Professors at the University of Leyden (Netherlands) (Netherlands)
1795Provincial decree of Holland abolishing Book Privileges and bestowing a Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1796Book Decree of the Province of Holland (Netherlands)
1803National Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands)
1805Memorandum of the Batavian Republic restricting the copying and selling of State Documents (Netherlands)
1808* Amended Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands)
1813High Court of Justice on the Right to Copy of Evangelical Hymns (Netherlands)
1813Sovereign Decrees on Official State Publications (Netherlands)
1814Sovereign Decree on the Book trade and the property of Literary Works (Netherlands)
1815Sovereign Decree on the right of property of translations of foreign works (Netherlands)
1815Booksellers’ Deed of Commitment against Reproduction (Netherlands)
1817Act regulating the printing and publication of literary and artistic works (Netherlands)
1817Advice on the application of the 1817 Act to works copyrighted before 1817 (Netherlands)
1820High Court of Justice on the application of the 1817 Act to translation disputes (Netherlands)
1821Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands)
1822Royal decree on the printing and publishing of state documents by individuals (Netherlands)
1840Supreme Court on Literary Property of the State (Netherlands)
1843Amsterdam District Court on the exclusive right to translate a foreign literary work (Netherlands)
1845Supplement to the Regulations of the Association for the Book trade on the right of preference on translations (Netherlands)
1850Supreme Court on the protection against reprinting of public sermons (Netherlands)
1856-1857Controversy on reproduction of foreign works (Netherlands)
1858Provincial Court of Appeal on the right to copy Tollens’ works of poetry (Netherlands)
1858Association for the Book trade’s Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1860Association for the Book trade’s Amended Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1862Provincial Court of Appeal on the transfer of the right to copy in Max Havelaar (Netherlands)
1862Principles adopted by the Royal Academy of Sciences on Literary and Artistic Property (Netherlands)
1868Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands)
1873-1876Controversy on reproduction of foreign works in the Netherlands and of Dutch works overseas (Netherlands)
1877Netherlands Lawyers' Association’s debate on the principle behind author’s rights protection (Netherlands)
1881Copyright Act (Netherlands)
1884Bill on the regulation of copyright on works of visual arts (Netherlands)
1892Supreme Court on the protection of non-original writings (Netherlands)