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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1504* Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy)
1546* Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy)
1556 (1555 m.v.)* Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy)
1556* Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy)
1596* Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1735* Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1738* Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1747* Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1762* Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1781* Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1]
1793* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1814* Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1]
1821* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1840* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846* Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1847* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1]
1853* Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1]
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1858Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom)
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1872* Supreme Court on Artistic Copyright (Spain)
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1878Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
189150 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)
1893Falk v. Donaldson (United States)