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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1546* Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy)
1735* Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1735Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1741* Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1747* Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1762* Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1773Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom)
1776* Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (France) Commentary: [1]
1778* Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1]
1785* Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1791* Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1]
1793* Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1815* Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1821* Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1824* Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1826* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France)
1827* Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1828* Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1832* Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1834* Balzac's letter to authors (France)
1841* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1842* Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1]
1847* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1]
1853Letters on International copyright (United States)
1853* Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1]
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1861Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom)
1868* Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1869* Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1878Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1879* Drone on Copyright (United States)
1879* Baker v. Selden (United States) Commentary: [1]
1883Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (United States)
1883Sarony's Brief (United States)
1883Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States)
189150 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)