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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1504* Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy)
1545* Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1546* Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy)
1556 (1555 m.v.)* Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy)
1556* Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy)
1643* The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1660* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1667* Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1690Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany)
1725-1726* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1]
1735* Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1740* Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1741* Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1741Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom)
1741Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom)
1747* Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1750Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany)
1773Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom)
1773Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom)
1774* Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1774Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom)
1777* Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1]
1791* Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1]
1793* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1798* Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1814* Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1]
1814Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom)
1828* Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1828Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States)
1832* Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1837* Royal Order on Dramatic Copyright (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1838* Remarks on Literary Property (Spain)
1841* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1841Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1842* Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1]
1846* Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1847* Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1847* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1]
1853* Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1861Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1869* Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1876* Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1876Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia)
1876Act on the Protection of Written Property, Norway (Scandinavia)
1877* Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1880* Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1883Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States)