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| 1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1474* | Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1477* | Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
| 1486* | Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1487* | Printing Privileges to Monasteries (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1501 | Vergilius (Italy) |
| 1501 | Le Cose volgari. (Italy) |
| 1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1501 | Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1502 | Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters (Italy) |
| 1502* | Licensing Rules (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1502 | Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis (Germany) |
| 1502* | Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1503* | Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1503 | Scotto v. Benalio (Italy) |
| 1503 | Durante v. Torresani (Italy) |
| 1503* | Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1504* | A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi (Italy) |
| 1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) |
| 1506 | 'Lamentationum Jeremie Prophete' (Italy) |
| 1506 | Nebrija's Printing Privilege (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1508* | Privilege granted to Jacobo Cromberger (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1509* | Privilege granted to Tommaso Pighinucci for publishing “Medicina Plinii” (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1511* | Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer (Germany) |
| 1511 | Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany) |
| 1512 | Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) |
| 1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1514* | Privilege granted to João Pedro de Cremona (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
| 1515 | Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger (Germany) |
| 1515* | Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1516* | Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor (Italy) |
| 1516 | Ugo da Carpi's Patent (Italy) |
| 1516 | Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany) |
| 1516* | Privilege for the Divisiekroniek (Netherlands) Commentary: [1] |
| 1517* | Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) |
| 1517 | Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany) |
| 1518* | Rabbinic Reprinting Ban for Eliyahu Bakhur (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
| 1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
| 1526 | Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's 'Triompho di Fortuna' (Italy) |
| 1527* | Venetian Decree on Pre-publication Censorship (Italy) |
| 1530* | Privilege granted to Germão Galharde (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1530* | La Fleur de la science de pourtraicture (France) |
| 1531* | Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
| 1531* | Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
| 1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1531 | Francis I's letter patent to Pierre Attaignant (France) |
| 1532 | Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's 'History of Florence' (Italy) |
| 1533* | Schott v. Egenolph (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1534 | Melchiore Sessa's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
| 1534 | Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany) |
| 1536* | Privilege granted to Gonçalo de Baena (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1537* | Privilege granted to Baltasar Dias (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1537* | Ordinance on the Production and Use of Books in Printed Form, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1539 | Appointment of Academic Printer at the University of Copenhagen (Scandinavia) |
| 1545* | Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1545* | Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence (Italy) |
| 1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) |
| 1547* | French Censorship Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1549* | Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) |
| 1549* | Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) |
| 1550* | Rema Ruling re: Maharam of Padua (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
| 1551 | French Censorship Act (France) |
| 1552* | General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1552 | Letter Concerning the Danish Bible (Scandinavia) |
| 1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1553 | William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom) |
| 1553 | John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom) |
| 1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
| 1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
| 1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1557 | The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
| 1558* | Censorship Rules (Spain) |
| 1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
| 1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
| 1559* | Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1559* | Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) |
| 1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
| 1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1559 | Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom) |
| 1559 | Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) |
| 1559 | Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) |
| 1560 | Counterfeited papal privilege (Germany) |
| 1565 | Lauritz Benedicht's Printing Monopoly (Scandinavia) |
| 1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1568* | Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints (Italy) |
| 1570* | Ordinance concerning Printers, Booksellers and School masters (Netherlands) Commentary: [1] |
| 1571* | Privilege granted to Andrea Palladio for his Four Books on Architecture, with supporting endorsement by member of the Roman Inquisition (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1572 | Privilege granted to Luís Vaz de Camões (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1572 | Privilege for Petrus Johannis Godhus (Scandinavia) |
| 1579* | Privilege for the Deux-Aes Bible (Netherlands) Commentary: [1] |
| 1579* | Notice of Rabbinic Reprinting Ban (Jewish Law) |
| 1582* | Revocation of Papal privilege to print and distribute Roman [Gregorian] Calendar and Martyrology (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1584* | Privilege for Squaring of the circle (Netherlands) Commentary: [1] |
| 1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1587* | Privilege to Giovanni Giolito di Ferrari for publication of Paolo Comitolo's "Catena in Beatissimum Job," and revocation of Jean Stratius' privilege in the same work (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1588* | Petition of and Privilege to Tolomeo Veltroni for illustrated edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1589* | Petitions from and Privilege granted to Gerard Voss for his Latin translation of the works of St. Ephrem of Syria (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1589* | Bosio's edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
| 1591 | A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany) |
| 1593* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1593* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Giulio Burchioni for publishing a combined volume of works on table service and household management (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
| 1596* | Motu proprio controversy (Italy) |
| 1596* | Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
| 1598* | Petition of and Privilege to Orazio Torsellini for his History of the House of Loreto (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1599* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Alfonso Chacón for publishing the works of his uncle, historian Alonso Chacón (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1600* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Pietro Fetti to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1602* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Marcantonio Rossi for publishing choral work by the late Giovanni Guidetti of Bologna (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
| 1603* | Privilege granted to Francisco Soto to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1603* | Petition and Privilege for printing and distributing the Summa of St. Raymond of Peñafort (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1604* | Petition for licence and privilege by Cervantes (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1604* | Petition from and Privilege granted to Cosimo Gaci to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary: [1] |
| 1605* | Don Quixote’s Privilege (Spain) |
| 1605* | Don Quixote’s Privilege Extensions (Spain) |
| 1606* | Reprinting Ban for Bedek Ha-Bayit (Jewish Law) |
| 1607 | General privilege granted to Pierre Ballard (France) |
| 1608* | The States-General's ban on certain publications of the 'Bycorff' (Netherlands) |
| 1614* | Publishing Agreement: the Spanish translation of Ludovico Blosio oeuvre (Spain) |
| 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] |
| 1618 | Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom) |
| 1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1625-1626* | Resolutions concerning the Dutch School Order (Netherlands) |
| 1632* | Privilege for the States Bible (Netherlands) |
| 1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
| 1643* | Establishment of the First Printing House in Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1644 | Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom) |
| 1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
| 1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
| 1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
| 1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
| 1653 | An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) |
| 1656* | Privilege du Roy [Charles Le Brun] (France) |
| 1657 | Preface to Silesius's Chant Book (Germany) |
| 1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1660* | Decree on Engravings (France) |
| 1660* | The 'Fixed and Indissoluble' Contract of the Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Netherlands) |
| 1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1662 | Licensing Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
| 1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
| 1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
| 1666 | Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker (Germany) |
| 1667* | Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1667 | Recital of the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
| 1669* | Revocation of the Privilege granted to Pieter Hackens (Netherlands) |
| 1670 | Exclusive Rights to the Book Trade in Christiania (Scandinavia) |
| 1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
| 1675* | Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1676* | Decree on Sculptures (France) |
| 1677* | Pirated edition of Calderón de la Barca's comedias (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1684 | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
| 1684* | Renewed Swedish Censorship Laws (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
| 1686* | Resolution concerning the Grant of Book Privileges (Netherlands) |
| 1686 | Abolition of All Monopolies in the Book Trade in Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1688 | Establishment of a Printing Press in Iceland (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1688 | Laws Concerning Printing, Censorship, and Distribution of Books and Almanacs, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
| 1690 | Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany) |
| 1690* | Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1691* | Pseudo-Vera Tassis: Fake edition (Spain) |
| 1691 | Pseudo-Vera Tassis: Fake edition II (Spain) |
| 1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1700 | Bladen's Privilege (United States) |
| 1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1701* | Censorship Instruction for Newspapers, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) 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) |
| 1709 | More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
| 1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom) |
| 1710* | Willing Agreement of Booksellers in Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, etc. (Netherlands) |
| 1710* | General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden (Netherlands) |
| 1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1710 | A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
| 1711* | Legal Deposit at the Royal Library (Spain) |
| 1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
| 1714 | Decree on Fine Arts (France) |
| 1715* | Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges (Netherlands) |
| 1721* | Burnet v. Chetwood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1721 | Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom) |
| 1721 | Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) |
| 1721 | Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1723 | Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1725 | French book trade regulations (France) |
| 1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1728* | Resolution on Compliance with Book Deposit Regulations and Notice against the Printing of Books under the names of Professors at the University of Leyden (Netherlands) |
| 1729 | Gay v. Read (United Kingdom) |
| 1735* | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1735 | The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) |
| 1735 | Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
| 1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1737* | Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) 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 | Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs (Italy) |
| 1740 | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany) |
| 1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1741* | Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1741* | Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1741 | Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom) |
| 1741 | Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom) |
| 1741 | Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) |
| 1741* | The Danish Copyright Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1746 | North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States) |
| 1747* | Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1748 | Privilege Granted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Print Almanacs (Scandinavia) |
| 1749* | Crébillon case (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
| 1750 | New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
| 1751 | Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) |
| 1752* | Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain) |
| 1752* | Privilege Tranfers: Contract between Antonio Sanz and his bookseller (Spain) |
| 1752 | Regulations and Rules for the Printing Industry in Sweden (Scandinavia) |
| 1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1761* | La Fontaine case (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
| 1762* | Free Trade Regulations (Spain) |
| 1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1762* | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1762* | An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1762 | A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom) |
| 1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |
| 1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1764 | Parisian Booksellers memorandum (France) |
| 1764 | Licence to Establish an Office of Advertisements in the City of Bergen (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1765* | Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1765 | Reich v. Pauli (Germany) |
| 1766 | Prussian Cabinet Order (Germany) |
| 1766 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1766 | Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) |
| 1766* | The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1769* | Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1770 | Avis aux gens de lettres (France) |
| 1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
| 1770 | Abolishment of Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1771 | Rescript Limiting the Freedom Allowed by the 1770 Legislation (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1772 | Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
| 1772 | William Billings' Second Petition (United States) |
| 1772 | William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States) |
| 1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1773 | Reimarus: The publishing of books (Germany) |
| 1773 | Reich: On Book Publishing (Germany) |
| 1773 | On Klopstock's proclamation of a 'Republic of Scholars' (Germany) |
| 1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1773 | Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) |
| 1773 | Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) |
| 1773 | Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1774* | Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1774 | The Justified Reprinter (Germany) |
| 1774 | Imperial Privilege for a reprint series (Germany) |
| 1774 | The justified reprinter (Germany) |
| 1774 | Booktrade in Austria (Germany) |
| 1774* | Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1774 | Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom) |
| 1774 | Stella's Modest Exceptions (United Kingdom) |
| 1775* | Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1776* | Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1777* | Royal declaration on sculpture and painting (France) |
| 1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1777* | Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1777 | Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1778 | Decree on counterfeitings (France) |
| 1779 | Séguier's report (France) |
| 1780* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents (Italy) |
| 1780 | Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (Italy) |
| 1780 | Beaumarchais's report (France) |
| 1780 | Decree on Dramatic Literary Property (France) |
| 1780* | Dramatic Act (France) |
| 1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
| 1781 | Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany) |
| 1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
| 1782 | Letter from Smith to Webster (United States) |
| 1783 | Petition of John Ledyard (United States) |
| 1783* | Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1783 | Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States) |
| 1783 | Continental Congress Resolution (United States) |
| 1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1783 | New Hampshire Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1783 | Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1783 | Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States) |
| 1784 | Cella: On Reprinting of Books (Germany) |
| 1784 | Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States) |
| 1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1785* | Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
| 1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1786 | The Slandered Man (Germany) |
| 1786* | French Decree on Musical Publications (France) |
| 1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
| 1787* | Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1787 | Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States) |
| 1787 | Madison's Journal Record (United States) |
| 1787 | Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States) |
| 1788 | On literature and the book trade in Austria (Germany) |
| 1788 | The Federalist No. 43 (United States) |
| 1789 | Becker: On the property right in intellectual works (Germany) |
| 1789* | The Constitutional Copyright Clause (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1789 | Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States) |
| 1789 | House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (United States) |
| 1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
| 1789 | Ramsay's Petition (United States) |
| 1790-1800 | Sample registrations (United States) |
| 1790 | The Blue Man (pseudonym): Reprinting, contra and pro (Germany) |
| 1790 | Vindication of property against robbery (Germany) |
| 1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1790 | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban of reprinting [extended version] (Germany) |
| 1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1790 | Boufflers' report (France) |
| 1790* | Petition by the printmakers and proprietors of copperplates to the National Assembly, May (France) |
| 1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1791 | Reimarus: Book Publishing (Germany) |
| 1791 | Fauth: On reprinting of books without the knowledge and consent of the first publisher (Germany) |
| 1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1791 | Beaumarchais's petition (France) |
| 1792 [1791] | Müller: On Publication Piracy (Germany) |
| 1792* | Barcelona Newspaper' Printing Privilege (Spain) |
| 1792 | Knigge: On the Reprinting of Books (Germany) |
| 1792 | Reimarus: Publishing right with regard to reprinting (Germany) |
| 1792 | Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States) |
| 1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1794* | Contract between Schiller and Cotta (Germany) |
| 1794* | Petition by citizen makers of plaster casts to the National Convention, 3rd March (France) |
| 1795* | Provincial decree of Holland abolishing Book Privileges and bestowing a Right to Copy (Netherlands) |
| 1796 | Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany) |
| 1796* | Book Decree of the Province of Holland (Netherlands) |
| 1798* | Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1798* | Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1798 | Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
| 1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1799 | Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1799* | Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
| 1801 | Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
| 1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
| 1803* | National Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands) |
| 1805* | Memorandum of the Batavian Republic restricting the copying and selling of State Documents (Netherlands) |
| 1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
| 1808* | Amended Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands) |
| 1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1810 | Imperial decree on the book trade (France) |
| 1810 | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1812 | Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
| 1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
| 1813* | Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works (Spain) |
| 1813 | Bavarian Penal Law Book (Germany) |
| 1813* | High Court of Justice on the Right to Copy of Evangelical Hymns (Netherlands) |
| 1813* | Sovereign Decrees on Official State Publications (Netherlands) |
| 1813 | Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom) |
| 1813 | Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
| 1813 | Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom) |
| 1813 | Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
| 1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
| 1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1814* | Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1814* | Sovereign Decree on the Book trade and the property of Literary Works (Netherlands) |
| 1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1814 | Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1815* | Sovereign Decree on the right of property of translations of foreign works (Netherlands) |
| 1815* | Booksellers’ Deed of Commitment against Reproduction (Netherlands) |
| 1817* | Act regulating the printing and publication of literary and artistic works (Netherlands) |
| 1817* | Advice on the application of the 1817 Act to works copyrighted before 1817 (Netherlands) |
| 1818 | Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) |
| 1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
| 1820* | High Court of Justice on the application of the 1817 Act to translation disputes (Netherlands) |
| 1821* | Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1821* | Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands) |
| 1822* | Constitution of 1822 (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1822* | Royal decree on the printing and publishing of state documents by individuals (Netherlands) |
| 1824* | Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1825 | Merlin on counterfeiting (France) |
| 1826* | Constitutional Charter of 1826 (Portugal) |
| 1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
| 1826 | Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (United States) |
| 1826 | Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster (United States) |
| 1827* | Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1827* | Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1828 | Court of Appeal on moral rights (France) |
| 1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1828 | Letter from Donaldson to Peters (United States) |
| 1828 | Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton (United States) |
| 1828 | Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States) |
| 1828 | H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States) |
| 1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
| 1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
| 1829 | Printing statutes in the Canton of Zürich (Germany) |
| 1829 | Hessen Copyright Act (Germany) |
| 1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1830 | Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1830 | Judiciary Committee Report (United States) |
| 1830 | Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States) |
| 1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1831 | House Debate (United States) |
| 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) |
| 1833* | Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1833 | Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
| 1834* | Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment (Spain) |
| 1834 | Review of Neustetel's book (Germany) |
| 1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
| 1834* | Wheaton v. Peters (United States) |
| 1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
| 1834 | Letters from Sumner to Story (United States) |
| 1835* | Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1835* | Sofer Responsum on Vilna-Slavuta Talmud Dispute (Jewish Law) |
| 1835* | Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1835 | Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1835 | Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1835 | Publication of Lectures Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1836 | Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act (United Kingdom) |
| 1837* | Royal Order on Dramatic Copyright (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1837* | Royal Order on Music Copyright (Spain) |
| 1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1837 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1837 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
| 1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
| 1837 | Debates in Congress (United States) |
| 1837 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States) |
| 1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
| 1838 | Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany) |
| 1838* | Constitution of 1838 (Portugal) |
| 1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
| 1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
| 1838 | Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States) |
| 1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
| 1839* | First Copyright Bill (Portugal) |
| 1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1839 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1840 | Hölzl: On Reprinting of books (Germany) |
| 1840* | Supreme Court on Literary Property of the State (Netherlands) |
| 1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1840 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
| 1841 | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) |
| 1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1841 | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1841* | Folsom v. Marsh (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1841 | Master in Chancery Report (United States) |
| 1841 | S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States) |
| 1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1842* | Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1842 | Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (United States) |
| 1843* | Amsterdam District Court on the exclusive right to translate a foreign literary work (Netherlands) |
| 1843 | An Address to the People of the United States (United States) |
| 1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1844 | Commentary on the Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) |
| 1844 | Act on the property right of playwrights' widows and children (France) |
| 1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1844 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
| 1845 | Court of Appeal on right of publication (France) |
| 1845* | Court of Appeal on translations (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1845* | Supplement to the Regulations of the Association for the Book trade on the right of preference on translations (Netherlands) |
| 1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1846 | Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany) |
| 1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1846 | Handbook of German press legislation (Germany) |
| 1847* | Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1847 | Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1848* | Copyright Formalities: Registration (Spain) |
| 1848 | Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association 1838-1847 (Germany) |
| 1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
| 1850* | Supreme Court on the protection against reprinting of public sermons (Netherlands) |
| 1851* | First Copyright Law, 1851 (Portugal) |
| 1851* | SACEM's act of constitution (France) |
| 1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
| 1852 | Theory of Reprinting. Presented according to the directives of the German Confederation (Germany) |
| 1852* | French International Copyright Act (France) |
| 1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom) |
| 1852 | Copyright and Natural Right (United States) |
| 1853 | Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain (Germany) |
| 1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1853 | Court of Cassation on translations (France) |
| 1853 | Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom) |
| 1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
| 1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
| 1853* | Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States) |
| 1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States) |
| 1853 | Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States) |
| 1853 | 'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States) |
| 1854* | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
| 1854 | Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) |
| 1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1855* | Agreement between the Netherlands and France on the reproduction of scientific and literary works (Netherlands) |
| 1856-1857* | Controversy on reproduction of foreign works (Netherlands) |
| 1856* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1857* | Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1857* | Court of cassation on originality (France) |
| 1857 | Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) |
| 1858* | Provincial Court of Appeal on the right to copy Tollens’ works of poetry (Netherlands) |
| 1858* | Association for the Book trade’s Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands) |
| 1858 | Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom) |
| 1859* | Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain) |
| 1860* | Association for the Book trade’s Amended Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands) |
| 1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
| 1860 | Turner v. Robinson (United Kingdom) |
| 1861* | Supreme Court on Originality (Spain) |
| 1861* | Court of Cassation on telegraphic news (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1861 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1861 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
| 1862 | Bretón de los Herreros' Copyright Contract (Spain) |
| 1862* | Court of Cassation on photography (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1862* | Provincial Court of Appeal on the transfer of the right to copy in Max Havelaar (Netherlands) |
| 1862* | Principles adopted by the Royal Academy of Sciences on Literary and Artistic Property (Netherlands) |
| 1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
| 1862 | Southern Feeling (United States) |
| 1863 | Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States) |
| 1863 | Hardee's Memorial (United States) |
| 1863 | International Copyright Resolution (United States) |
| 1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
| 1866 | Reports of Riché, Perras, Sainte-Beuve. (France) |
| 1866* | Literary and artistic property act (France) |
| 1867* | Schäffle: 'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1867* | Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1867* | Seabra Civil Code, 1867 (Portugal) |
| 1867* | Cour de Cassation on moral rights (France) |
| 1868* | Colonial Copyright Extensions (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
| 1868* | Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands) |
| 1869* | Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1869 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1869 | Graves’ Case, London (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1869 | Victorian Copyright Act, Victoria (United Kingdom) |
| 1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1870 | Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany) |
| 1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1870 | Committee Report on S.703 (United States) |
| 1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
| 1872* | Supreme Court on Artistic Copyright (Spain) |
| 1872 | Morillot on the personal right of publication (France) |
| 1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
| 1872 | International Copyright Bill (United States) |
| 1873 | Committee on the Library Report (United States) |
| 1873-1876* | Controversy on reproduction of foreign works in the Netherlands and of Dutch works overseas (Netherlands) |
| 1873-1908* | Opuscles (Portugal) Commentary: [1] |
| 1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
| 1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1876 | Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia) |
| 1876 | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Norway (Scandinavia) |
| 1877* | Supreme Court on Music Copyright (Spain) |
| 1877* | Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1877* | Netherlands Lawyers' Association’s debate on the principle behind author’s rights protection (Netherlands) |
| 1877* | Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
| 1878* | Spanish Copyright Formalities: Certificates (Spain) |
| 1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
| 1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
| 1879* | Copyright Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1879 | Memorial of the Royal Academy of Arts, London (United Kingdom) |
| 1879* | Drone on Copyright (United States) |
| 1879* | Baker v. Selden (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1879 | Selden's Argument (United States) |
| 1879 | Baker's Argument (United States) |
| 1880* | Copyright Regulations (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1880 | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
| 1880 | Anglo-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
| 1880* | Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1881* | Copyright Act (Netherlands) |
| 1882* | Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1882 | Oscar Wilde photograph (United States) |
| 1883 | Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (United States) |
| 1883 | Sarony's Brief (United States) |
| 1883 | Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States) |
| 1884* | Bilateral Copyright Treaty between Spain and El Salvador (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
| 1884* | Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1884* | Bill on the regulation of copyright on works of visual arts (Netherlands) |
| 1885* | First Inscriptions of Works at the Spanish Copyright Office (Spain) |
| 1885 | Carte v. Duff (United States) |
| 1886* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
| 1886 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
| 1886 | Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom) |
| 1886 | Berne Convention (United Kingdom) |
| 1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
| 1887* | International Literary Congress in Madrid (Spain) |
| 1887 | Court of Cassation on international copyright (France) |
| 1888* | Civil Code (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1888 | American Authors and British Pirates (United States) |
| 1888 | The International Copyright Bill (United States) |
| 1890* | Copyright Pocketbooks (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |
| 1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
| 1891 | Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. (United States) |
| 1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
| 1892* | Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
| 1892* | Supreme Court on the protection of non-original writings (Netherlands) |
| 1893 | Falk v. Donaldson (United States) |
| 1894* | Copyright Formalities: Bulletin (Spain) |
| 1894 | Report on H.R. 6835 (United States) |
| 1894 | H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States) |
| 1895* | Núñez de Arce’s Will (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1896 | New Zealand Copyright Act, Wellington (United Kingdom) |
| 1896 | Regarding Norway’s Accession to the Berne Convention (Scandinavia) |
| 1896 | Public Performance Bill (United States) |
| 1896 | Report on H.R. 1978 (United States) |
| 1896 | Report on S. 2306 (United States) |
| 1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
| 1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
| 1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |
| 1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |
| 1897* | Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States) |
| 1898* | Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
| 1899* | Schmelkes Responsum (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
| 1899 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) |
| 1899 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States) |
| 1900 | Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) |
| 1900 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States) |
| 1902* | Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1] |
| 1902 | Bleistein's Brief (United States) |
| 1902 | Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States) |
| 1902 | Bleistein: Three Posters (United States) |
| 1903* | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (United States) Commentary: [1] |
| 1903 | Bleistein: Cartoon (United States) |