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.


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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]
1517Privilege 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]
1591A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany)
1596* Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1617Continued 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]
1649An 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)
1673Nuremberg 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]
1706Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1721Printer 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]
1737Privilege of Printing Pontoppidan's Catechism Granted to the Royal Orphanage (Scandinavia)
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1740Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany)
1741* The Danish Copyright Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1748Privilege Granted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Print Almanacs (Scandinavia)
1752Regulations 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]
1765Reich v. Pauli (Germany)
1766Prussian 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]
1774Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom)
1774The 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)
1781Chodowiecki'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]
1829Music 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]
1838Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)
1838Address of Certain Authors (United States)
1841* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1841Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1841Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1844* Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846Expert 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]
1876Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia)
1877* Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1884Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany)
189150 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)
1896The Question of Copyright (United States)