1516 | Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany) |
1553 | William 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) |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1710 | A 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] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1737* | Privilege 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] |
1780 | Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (Italy) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New 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) |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |