1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1506 | Nebrija's Printing Privilege (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1511 | Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany) |
1512 | Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
1515 | Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger (Germany) |
1515* | Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1516 | Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany) |
1526 | Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's 'Triompho di Fortuna' (Italy) |
1531* | Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1532 | Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's 'History of Florence' (Italy) |
1545* | Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence (Italy) |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1553 | William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom) |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) |
1605* | Don Quixote’s Privilege (Spain) |
1605* | Don Quixote’s Privilege Extensions (Spain) |
1606* | Reprinting Ban for Bedek Ha-Bayit (Jewish Law) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1667* | Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1723* | Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1746 | North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States) |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780 | Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (Italy) |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
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) |
1783 | Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
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* | Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1787 | Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Journal Record (United States) |
1787 | Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States) |
1789 | Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States) |
1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1792 | Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States) |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1796 | Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany) |
1798* | Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
1813* | Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works (Spain) |
1813 | Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom) |
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) |
1821* | Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1830 | Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) |
1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (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* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States) |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
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 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom) |
1867* | Schäffle: 'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
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) |
1872 | International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1876* | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1877* | Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1882* | Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1895* | Núñez de Arce’s Will (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
1902* | Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1] |