1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1517* | Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1517 | Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany) |
1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1550* | Rema Ruling re: Maharam of Padua (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1606* | Reprinting Ban for Bedek Ha-Bayit (Jewish Law) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1667* | Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1690 | Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany) |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
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) |
1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1769* | Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents (Italy) |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1798* | Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1809* | Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1813* | Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works (Spain) |
1813 | Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1818 | Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1865* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |