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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1553* Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1554Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom)
1559Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom)
1559Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom)
1586* Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1624* Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1637* Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1672* Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1]
1700Bladen's Privilege (United States)
1746North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States)
1750New York Law Printing Privilege (United States)
1772Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States)
1790-1800Sample registrations (United States)
1818Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1828Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States)
1830Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States)
1834* Wheaton v. Peters (United States)
1834* Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States)
1838* Remarks on Literary Property (Spain)
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1882* Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1890* Copyright Pocketbooks (Spain) Commentary: [1]