1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
1667* | Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1749* | Crébillon case (France) Commentary: [1] |
1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | Dramatic Act (France) |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1789* | The Constitutional Copyright Clause (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
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) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |