1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1502 | Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis (Germany) |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1515 | Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger (Germany) |
1516 | Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany) |
1517 | Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1550* | Rema Ruling re: Maharam of Padua (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1714 | Decree on Fine Arts (France) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740 | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany) |
1762* | Free Trade Regulations (Spain) |
1773 | Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1783* | Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Hampshire Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1787 | Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Journal Record (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States) |
1788 | The Federalist No. 43 (United States) |
1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
1790-1800 | Sample registrations (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1801 | Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1827* | Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1831 | House Debate (United States) |
1835* | Sofer Responsum on Vilna-Slavuta Talmud Dispute (Jewish Law) |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1848* | Copyright Formalities: Registration (Spain) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1863 | Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States) |
1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
1866* | Literary and artistic property act (France) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1877* | Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1878* | Spanish Copyright Formalities: Certificates (Spain) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1879* | Baker v. Selden (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1879 | Baker's Argument (United States) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1885* | First Inscriptions of Works at the Spanish Copyright Office (Spain) |
1886* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1892* | Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. (Germany) Commentary: [1] |