1477* | Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1487* | Printing Privileges to Monasteries (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1502 | Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters (Italy) |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) 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] |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740 | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany) |
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] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
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* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (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] |
1843 | An Address to the People of the United States (United States) |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1847 | Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1854* | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1857* | Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1857 | Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Southern Feeling (United States) |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1880 | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1880 | Anglo-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1884* | Bilateral Copyright Treaty between Spain and El Salvador (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1884* | Bilateral Copyright Treaty between Spain and El Salvador (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |