1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer (Germany) |
1512 | Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) |
1532 | Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's 'History of Florence' (Italy) |
1533* | Schott v. Egenolph (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1549* | Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1579* | Notice of Rabbinic Reprinting Ban (Jewish Law) |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1594* | Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1647 | Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1653 | An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1676* | Decree on Sculptures (France) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1695 | Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1714 | Decree on Fine Arts (France) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1735 | Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740 | Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs (Italy) |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1765 | Reich v. Pauli (Germany) |
1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
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] |
1794* | Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1813 | Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
1827* | Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1829 | Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany) |
1831* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1833 | Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1835* | Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1851* | SACEM's act of constitution (France) |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1877* | Supreme Court on Music Copyright (Spain) |
1879* | Copyright Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1880* | Copyright Regulations (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1891* | International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States) |
1894 | Report on H.R. 6835 (United States) |
1894 | H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States) |
1896 | Public Performance Bill (United States) |
1896 | Report on H.R. 1978 (United States) |
1896 | Report on S. 2306 (United States) |
1896 | Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |
1897* | Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States) |
1899 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States) |
1900 | Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein's Brief (United States) |
1902 | Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States) |