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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1498* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1556* Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy)
1741* Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1793* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1809* Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1821* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846* Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1853* Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1868* Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]