1486* | Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1487* | Printing Privileges to Monasteries (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1503* | Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | Rabbinic Reprinting Ban for Eliyahu Bakhur (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1526 | Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's 'Triompho di Fortuna' (Italy) |
1531* | Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
1531* | Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1582* | Revocation of Papal privilege to print and distribute Roman [Gregorian] Calendar and Martyrology (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1587* | Privilege to Giovanni Giolito di Ferrari for publication of Paolo Comitolo's "Catena in Beatissimum Job," and revocation of Jean Stratius' privilege in the same work (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1588* | Petition of and Privilege to Tolomeo Veltroni for illustrated edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1589* | Petitions from and Privilege granted to Gerard Voss for his Latin translation of the works of St. Ephrem of Syria (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1589* | Bosio's edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
1593* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1593* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Giulio Burchioni for publishing a combined volume of works on table service and household management (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Motu proprio controversy (Italy) |
1600* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Pietro Fetti to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1603* | Privilege granted to Francisco Soto to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1603* | Petition and Privilege for printing and distributing the Summa of St. Raymond of Peñafort (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1604* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Cosimo Gaci to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
1644 | Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1774* | Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1859* | Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |