1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence (Italy) |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1558* | Censorship Rules (Spain) |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1614* | Publishing Agreement: the Spanish translation of Ludovico Blosio oeuvre (Spain) |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1662 | Licensing Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1677* | Pirated edition of Calderón de la Barca's comedias (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1690* | Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
1740 | Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs (Italy) |
1752* | Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain) |
1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |
1796 | Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1832 | Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) |
1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1876* | Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia) |
1876* | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |