1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1504* | Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1507* | Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1511 | Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany) |
1515* | Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary: [1] |
1517* | Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1550* | Rema Ruling re: Maharam of Padua (Jewish Law) Commentary: [1] |
1552* | Letter Concerning the Danish Bible (Scandinavia) |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1553 | William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom) |
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] |
1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
1558 | Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Privilege for printing music for the Indies (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Pérez v. Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) |
1559 | Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom) |
1559 | Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom) |
1572* | Privilege for Petrus Johannis Godhus (Scandinavia) |
1579* | Notice of Rabbinic Reprinting Ban (Jewish Law) |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1606* | Reprinting Ban for Bedek Ha-Bayit (Jewish Law) |
1618 | Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1686* | Abolition of All Monopolies in the Book Trade in Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1688* | Laws Concerning Printing, Censorship, and Distribution of Books and Almanacs, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1700 | Bladen's Privilege (United States) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1714 | Decree on Fine Arts (France) |
1721* | Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1723* | Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1737* | Privilege of Printing Pontoppidan's Catechism Granted to the Royal Orphanage (Scandinavia) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1741* | The Danish Copyright Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1746 | North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States) |
1748* | Privilege Granted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Print Almanacs (Scandinavia) |
1750 | New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1752* | Regulations and Rules for the Printing Industry in Sweden (Scandinavia) |
1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1764* | Licence to Establish an Office of Advertisements in the City of Bergen (Scandinavia) |
1766* | The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1771* | Rescript Limiting the Freedom Allowed by the 1770 Legislation (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1772 | Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States) |
1772 | William Billings' Second Petition (United States) |
1772 | William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States) |
1773 | Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) |
1773* | Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom) |
1774 | The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom) |
1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: supporting documents (Italy) |
1780 | Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (Italy) |
1781* | 'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy) |
1781* | Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Andrew Law's Privilege (United States) |
1783 | Petition of John Ledyard (United States) |
1783 | Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States) |
1784 | Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (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) |
1789 | Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States) |
1789 | Ramsay's Petition (United States) |
1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
1792 | Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States) |
1799* | Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1806 | Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) |
1810* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
1814* | Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary: [1] |
1835* | Sofer Responsum on Vilna-Slavuta Talmud Dispute (Jewish Law) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1869* | Court of Cassation on originality (France) Commentary: [1] |