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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1479* Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1485Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany)
1501* Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1502Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis (Germany)
1511* Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1511* Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer (Germany)
1511Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany)
1512Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany)
1513* Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1515Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger (Germany)
1516Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany)
1517Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany)
1525Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany)
1531* Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1533* Schott v. Egenolph (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1534Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany)
1545* Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1560Counterfeited papal privilege (Germany)
1591A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany)
1598Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1657Preface to Silesius's Chant Book (Germany)
1658* Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1660* Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1666Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker (Germany)
1673Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1675* Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1690Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1690Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany)
1713* 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1713Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1724* Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1740Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany)
1740* Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1750Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany)
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]
1773Reimarus: The publishing of books (Germany)
1773Reich: On Book Publishing (Germany)
1773On Klopstock's proclamation of a 'Republic of Scholars' (Germany)
1774* Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1774The Justified Reprinter (Germany)
1774Imperial Privilege for a reprint series (Germany)
1774The justified reprinter (Germany)
1774Booktrade in Austria (Germany)
1781Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany)
1784Cella: On Reprinting of Books (Germany)
1785* Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1785* Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1785Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany)
1786The Slandered Man (Germany)
1788On literature and the book trade in Austria (Germany)
1789Becker: On the property right in intellectual works (Germany)
1790The Blue Man (pseudonym): Reprinting, contra and pro (Germany)
1790Vindication 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]
1790J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban of reprinting [extended version] (Germany)
1791Reimarus: Book Publishing (Germany)
1791Fauth: On reprinting of books without the knowledge and consent of the first publisher (Germany)
1792Knigge: On the Reprinting of Books (Germany)
1792Reimarus: Publishing right with regard to reprinting (Germany)
1792 [1791]Müller: On Publication Piracy (Germany)
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)
1796Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany)
1799* Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1806Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany)
1809* Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1813Bavarian Penal Law Book (Germany)
1815* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1821* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (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]
1827* Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1829Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany)
1829Printing statutes in the Canton of Zürich (Germany)
1829Hessen Copyright Act (Germany)
1830* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1832* Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1834Review of Neustetel's book (Germany)
1835* Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1837* Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1837* Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1838Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)
1840* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1840Hölzl: On Reprinting of books (Germany)
1844* Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1844Commentary on the Saxon Copyright Act (Germany)
1846* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany)
1846* Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846Handbook of German press legislation (Germany)
1848Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association 1838-1847 (Germany)
1852Theory of Reprinting. Presented according to the directives of the German Confederation (Germany)
1853Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain (Germany)
1853* Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
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]
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1870Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)
1876* Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1877* Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1880* Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1884Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany)
1884* Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
189150 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)
1892* Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. (Germany) Commentary: [1]