1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1653 | An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
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* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
1773* | Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1794* | Contract between Schiller and Cotta (Germany) |
1799* | Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1799* | Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1810* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom) |