1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
1526 | Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's 'Triompho di Fortuna' (Italy) |
1545* | Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence (Italy) |
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] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1749* | Crébillon case (France) Commentary: [1] |
1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
1772 | William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States) |
1783* | Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1783 | Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
1785 | Virginia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | Georgia Copyright Statute (United States) |
1786 | New York Copyright Statute (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary: [1] |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1830 | Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) |
1833* | Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1840* | Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1856* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1857 | Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom) |
1861 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |