1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1502* | Licensing Rules (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1516* | Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor (Italy) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1558* | Censorship Rules (Spain) |
1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1713 | Augsburg 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 | Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs (Italy) |
1752* | Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1832 | Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) |
1832 | Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) |
1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |