1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1710 | A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1711* | Legal Deposit at the Royal Library (Spain) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1790-1800 | Sample registrations (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
1812 | Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom) |
1813 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom) |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1844 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
1847* | Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1848* | Copyright Formalities: Registration (Spain) |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States) |
1854* | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1857* | Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870 | Committee Report on S.703 (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Spanish Copyright Formalities: Certificates (Spain) |
1878* | Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1880* | Copyright Regulations (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1880 | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1880 | Anglo-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
1894* | Copyright Formalities: Bulletin (Spain) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
1900 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein's Brief (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States) |