1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1534 | Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany) |
1537* | Ordinance on the Production and Use of Books in Printed Form, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1552* | Letter Concerning the Danish Bible (Scandinavia) |
1553 | John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom) |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1591 | A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
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] |
1774 | Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |