1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1552* | General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1690* | Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1761* | La Fontaine case (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1775* | Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1834* | Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment (Spain) |
1838* | Remarks on Literary Property (Spain) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1859* | Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1869* | Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1880* | Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1] |