1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
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] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1741* | The Danish Copyright Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1845* | Court of Appeal on translations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1847* | Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1854* | Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1860* | Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |