1503* | Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1504* | A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi (Italy) |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
1515* | Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1517* | Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1517 | Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1533* | Schott v. Egenolph (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1568* | Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints (Italy) |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1591 | A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany) |
1596* | Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1617* | Continued Ban on Possessing, Selling or Distributing Imported Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1675* | Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1706 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1721* | Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
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 | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany) |
1741* | The Danish Copyright Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1748* | Privilege Granted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Print Almanacs (Scandinavia) |
1752* | Regulations and Rules for the Printing Industry in Sweden (Scandinavia) |
1762* | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1765* | Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1765 | Reich v. Pauli (Germany) |
1766 | Prussian Cabinet Order (Germany) |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1774* | Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1781 | Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany) |
1785* | Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1824* | Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1827* | Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany) |
1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1846 | Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany) |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1876* | Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia) |
1877* | Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |