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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All documents: Keyword monopoly

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1469* Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1498* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1504* Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy)
1531* Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1546* Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy)
1552* General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) Commentary: [1]
1556 (1555 m.v.)* Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy)
1556* Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy)
1557* Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1559* Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1559* Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain)
1565Lauritz Benedicht's Printing Monopoly (Scandinavia)
1586* Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1]
1586* Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1624* Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1643* Establishment of the First Printing House in Norway (Scandinavia)
1662* Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1670Exclusive Rights to the Book Trade in Christiania (Scandinavia)
1690* Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1693Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom)
1695Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom)
1709Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom)
1725-1726* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1]
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1740* Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1744* Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1]
1750Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany)
1761* La Fontaine case (France) Commentary: [1]
1761Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom)
1762* Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1]
1763* Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1]
1773Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom)
1774Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom)
1774The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom)
1774The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom)
1775* Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1776* Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1]
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]
1780Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (Italy)
1781* 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy)
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]
1791* Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1]
1815* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1826* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France)
1830Judiciary Committee Report (United States)
1831House Debate (United States)
1834* Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment (Spain)
1837Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States)
1838* Remarks on Literary Property (Spain)
1838Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States)
1841* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1841Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom)
1841Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1853* Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1853Letters on International copyright (United States)
1859* Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain)
1868* Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1869* Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1]
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1880* Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1890Report on H.R. 10881 (United States)
1896The Question of Copyright (United States)