1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1517 | Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
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] |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1751 | Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1773 | Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1837 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
1837 | Debates in Congress (United States) |
1837 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
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* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1845* | Court of Appeal on translations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1847 | Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom) |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1857 | Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) |
1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1873 | Committee on the Library Report (United States) |
1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1888 | American Authors and British Pirates (United States) |
1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |