1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1591 | A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany) |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1765 | Reich v. Pauli (Germany) |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1791 | Beaumarchais's petition (France) |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Contract between Schiller and Cotta (Germany) |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1832 | Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) |
1832 | Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1851* | SACEM's act of constitution (France) |
1852 | Copyright and Natural Right (United States) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1863 | Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States) |
1863 | Hardee's Memorial (United States) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1872 | International Copyright Bill (United States) |
1876* | Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1880* | Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1884* | Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |