1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1512 | Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) |
1552* | General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1740 | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany) |
1772 | William Billings' Second Petition (United States) |
1772 | William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States) |
1777* | Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
1786* | French Decree on Musical Publications (France) |
1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1818 | Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1827* | Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (United States) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1835* | Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Royal Order on Music Copyright (Spain) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
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* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1844 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1851* | SACEM's act of constitution (France) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1863 | Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States) |
1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
1866* | Literary and artistic property act (France) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1876* | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1877* | Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1877* | Supreme Court on Music Copyright (Spain) |
1877* | Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1884* | Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1885 | Carte v. Duff (United States) |
1886* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1894 | H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States) |
1896 | Report on H.R. 1978 (United States) |
1896 | Report on S. 2306 (United States) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |
1897* | Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States) |
1902* | Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1] |