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.




All documents: Keyword plagiarism

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1503* Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1658* Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1690Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany)
1773* Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1774Stella's Modest Exceptions (United Kingdom)
1778* Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1]
1793* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1821* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1841* Folsom v. Marsh (United States) Commentary: [1]
1841Master in Chancery Report (United States)
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1861* Supreme Court on Originality (Spain)
1868* Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1870* Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1876Act on the Protection of Written Property, Norway (Scandinavia)
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1888American Authors and British Pirates (United States)