1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1477* | Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1486* | Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1502* | Licensing Rules (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1503* | Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1591 | A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany) |
1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1675* | Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1686* | Abolition of All Monopolies in the Book Trade in Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1688* | Laws Concerning Printing, Censorship, and Distribution of Books and Almanacs, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1690 | Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1721* | Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) 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] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1751 | Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom) |
1752* | Privilege Tranfers: Contract between Antonio Sanz and his bookseller (Spain) |
1752* | Regulations and Rules for the Printing Industry in Sweden (Scandinavia) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |
1765* | Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1766* | The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1773 | Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom) |
1774* | Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1781 | Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1810* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1835* | Sofer Responsum on Vilna-Slavuta Talmud Dispute (Jewish Law) |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
1837 | Debates in Congress (United States) |
1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1843 | An Address to the People of the United States (United States) |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1868* | Colonial Copyright Extensions (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1872 | Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1873 | Committee on the Library Report (United States) |
1874 | Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1876* | Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia) |
1876* | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1886 | Committee on Patents Report (United States) |
1888 | American Authors and British Pirates (United States) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | The Question of Copyright (United States) |
1896* | Regarding Norway’s Accession to the Berne Convention (Scandinavia) |