PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Keywords listed by priority

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privileges 274
duration 243
penalties 228
property theory 188
authorship 140
books 128
registration 109
book trade 107
deposit 94
authors' remuneration 94
censorship 90
transferability 89
reprints 85
music 84
licensing 78
translations 76
formalities 75
learning 74
engravings 74
lobbying 73
dramatic works 72
foreign reprints 72
importation 66
monopoly 65
piracy 64
international agreements 64
book market 60
public performance 60
newspapers 60
public good 58
originality 58
public domain 57
inheritability 57
incentives 57
reciprocity 55
scholarly writing 53
editions 52
moral rights 52
patents 50
natural rights 49
utility 48
printing 48
reputation 46
contract 46
maps 46
counterfeit 45
religious works 44
property analogies 42
author/publisher relations 41
societies 40
paintings 40
translation 40
common law copyright 40
interest groups 39
patronage 39
idea/expression 39
Stationers' Company 38
drawings 37
imitation 36
price regulation 36
defamation 36
inventions 36
Anglo-American 36
fraud 35
guild regulation 35
royalty/royalties 35
immoral works 35
sculpture 34
labour theory 33
universities 33
libraries 33
manuscript 32
perpetual protection 32
abridgements 32
photography 31
dramatico-musical works 31
oral works 30
adaptation 29
Bible 29
copy 29
guilds 29
inventors 28
anonymous works 27
remedies 27
Reformation 26
authenticity 26
copying 26
unpublished works 24
compilation 24
personality theory 24
fair use 23
free trade 23
commissions 23
law books 23
classics 23
authors 23
customs 22
creativity 22
applied art 21
typography 20
constitution 20
derivatives 19
art market 18
almanacs 18
music publishing 18
employer/employee relations 18
Enlightenment 18
states 18
new editions 17
forgery 17
plagiarism 17
serialisation 16
novelty 16
book fairs 16
renewal 15
subscription 15
French Revolution 14
import 14
replica 13
letters 13
barter trade 13
Renaissance 13
portrait 13
attribute 13
excluded subject matter 13
taxation 12
divine law 12
advertising 12
scribal publication 11
catechisms 11
anthologies 11
industrial revolution 10
Napoleonic Wars 10
humanism 10
privilege 10
grammars 10
arrangement 10
utilitarianism 10
ingenuity 10
technical manuals 9
architecture 9
divisibility 8
Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) 7
Engraving 7
exhibitions 7
signature 7
private domain 7
moral obligations 7
enlightenment 7
Art 7
Repetitions 6
posthumous works 6
Portraits 6
Replicas 6
Photographs 6
contracts 5
Publication 5
Privileges 5
ownership 5
Copying 5
confederacy 5
Collectors 4
medical tracts 4
excommunication 4
Vienna Congress 4
Print 4
Painting 4
fixation 4
secrecy 4
Venice 4
Early Modern 4
public utility 4
Artistic works 4
compulsory licensing 4
defences and exemptions 3
Riformatori dello Studio di Padova 3
Consiglio dei Pregadi 3
Senate of Venice 3
academic freedom 3
colonies 3
expurgation 3
invention 3
Sculpture 3
Börsenverein (German Publishers' and Booksellers' organisation) 2
woodcutter 2
woodcuts 2
author's remuneration 2
Royal Academy of Arts 2
bilateral agreements 2
Lord Thring 2
Lord Monkswell 2
Authorship 2
Woodcut 2
Religious works 2
Sitters 2
printmakers 2
Collegio of Venice 2
Inquisition 2
artist 2
codification 2
property 2
Counter-Reformation 2
Registration 2
Society of Arts 2
Public Library of Melbourne 1
Unpublished works 1
Titus Livius 1
priviliges 1
US 1
Penalties 1
property analogues 1
patterns 1
The Death of Chatterton 1
religion 1
Royal Commission on Copyright 1
portraiture 1
services 1
Sigismund Feierabend 1
Stereoscopic pictures 1
Sigmund Feierbend 1
Sigmund Feyerabend 1
Summary Proceedings 1
Pietro Valgrisi 1
printing press 1
printer 1
prescription 1
plaster 1
Richard Bethell 1
Triumph of Caesar 1
retail price 1
Petrus Valgrisius 1
printing 1
pattern book 1
Council of Trent 1
Catherino Zeno 1
Catherinus Geno 1
Censorship 1
choreographic works 1
Christ 1
Cipriana Michiel 1
Colonial copyright 1
Common law copyright 1
copies 1
Delabere Roberton Blaine 1
Casts from Nature 1
distributive justice 1
Dramatic Works 1
Duration 1
embroidery 1
Enea Parmigiano 1
Enea Vico 1
engraving 1
Exhibition 1
expression 1
Fine Arts Copyright Act 1
Catechisms 1
cast 1
Foreign reprints 1
arts 1
Aggrieved person 1
Albrecht Dürer 1
Ancient Rome 1
Antoine du Pérac Lafréry 1
Antonio Floriano 1
Antonio Floriano da Udene 1
Antonio Lafreri 1
Antonio Lafréry 1
Antonio Salamanca 1
art 1
assignat 1
cartography 1
author 1
Author-publisher relations 1
author/self-publishing 1
Benedetto Bordon 1
Benedetto Bordone 1
Blackburn J. 1
book 1
Books 1
booksellers 1
Bulls 1
fines 1
Formalities 1
painter (peintre du roi) 1
Lucrece 1
Jacob of Strasburg 1
Jacobus Argentoratensis 1
Jacobus of Strassburg 1
Jakob von Strassburg 1
Joseph Salviati 1
Julius Caesar 1
Justices of the Peace 1
Literary works 1
Livy 1
Lord Westbury 1
Lucretia 1
intellectual property 1
Lucretia Contarini 1
Manchester Art Treasures 1
mappamondo 1
Martinez de Salamanca 1
morality 1
Museum of Industry and Art 1
Musical Works 1
National Gallery 1
New Zealand 1
Originality 1
inventor 1
inherability 1
Francesco Marcolini 1
Giacomo di Argentina 1
Francesco Marcolini da Forli 1
François Clouet 1
Gaius Julius Caesar 1
Geert de Cremer 1
Geert de Kremer 1
Geography 1
Gerard de Cremer 1
Gerard de Kremer 1
Gerard Mercator 1
Gerardus Mercator 1
Giovanni Ostaus 1
Il Salviati 1
Giuseppe Porta 1
Giuseppe Salviati 1
gores 1
guild 1
Henri II 1
Henry Graves 1
Henry II 1
Henry Wallis 1
Hieronimo Zane 1
Hieronimus Zane 1
world maps 1


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