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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1498* Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1]
1511* Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1512Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany)
1552* General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) Commentary: [1]
1559* Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1559* Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain)
1672* Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1]
1740Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany)
1772William Billings' Second Petition (United States)
1772William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States)
1777* Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1781Andrew Law's Privilege (United States)
1786* French Decree on Musical Publications (France)
1790* Sieyès' report (France) Commentary: [1]
1793* French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1]
1794* Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1818Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom)
1826* Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France)
1827* Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1828H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States)
1829Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany)
1830* Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1830Judiciary Committee Report (United States)
1831* Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1]
1835* Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1837* Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1837* Royal Order on Music Copyright (Spain)
1838* International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1838Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1838Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1839Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1840* Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1840Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1841* Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1841Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1842* Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1842Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom)
1842Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom)
1842Bill 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]
1844International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1844H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States)
1846* Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1846* Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1847* Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary: [1]
1847* A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1]
1851* SACEM's act of constitution (France)
1851Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom)
1852* International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1853* Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1853British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States)
1857* Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1861* Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States)
1863Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States)
1865* Copyright Act Amendment (United States)
1866* Literary and artistic property act (France)
1868* Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1870* Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1870* Copyright Act (United States)
1876Act on the Protection of Written Property, Norway (Scandinavia)
1877* Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1877* Supreme Court on Music Copyright (Spain)
1877* Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1]
1878* Morillot on the author's right (France)
1878* Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1878Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1879Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom)
1884Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany)
1884* Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1]
1885Carte v. Duff (United States)
1886* International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1]
1886International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1886Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom)
189150 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)
1894H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States)
1896Report on H.R. 1978 (United States)
1896Report on S. 2306 (United States)
1896Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States)
1896Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States)
1896Debate in Congress (United States)
1897* Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States)
1902* Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1]