1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary: [1] |
1658* | Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1690* | Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts) (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1704* | Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1740* | Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1762* | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1765* | Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1781 | Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany) |
1785* | Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791 | Beaumarchais's petition (France) |
1793* | Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1821* | Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1827* | Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1828* | Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters (United States) |
1834* | Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States) |
1837* | Senate Report (United States) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1847* | A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1858 | Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |
1880* | Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1883 | Sarony's Brief (United States) |
1896 | Debate in Congress (United States) |