1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1515* | Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy) |
1516* | Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor (Italy) |
1531* | Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy) |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1534 | Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany) |
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] |
1553 | John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom) |
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] |
1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1566* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Motu proprio controversy (Italy) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1785 | Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany) |
1785 | North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1802 | 1802 Amendment (United States) |
1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |