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 price regulation

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1516Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany)
1553William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom)
1618* Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1]
1643* Establishment of the First Printing House in Norway (Scandinavia)
1649Book trade regulations (France)
1701* Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1]
1709Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1710* Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1710A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1724* Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1725-1726* Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1]
1737An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom)
1737Privilege of Printing Pontoppidan's Catechism Granted to the Royal Orphanage (Scandinavia)
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1740* Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1752* Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain)
1762* Free Trade Regulations (Spain)
1763* Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1]
1773* Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1776* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (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)
1784South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1785North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1786Georgia Copyright Statute (United States)
1786New York Copyright Statute (United States)
1790* J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1799* Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1815* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1826* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France)
1853British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States)
1872Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom)
1878Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1888The International Copyright Bill (United States)