1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1749* | Crébillon case (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | Dramatic Act (France) |
1791* | Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary: [1] |
1791 | Beaumarchais's petition (France) |
1814 | Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1815* | Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1830 | Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1832 | Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom) |
1832 | Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) |
1833* | Dramatic Literary Property Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1833 | Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom) |
1833 | Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom) |
1834* | Balzac's letter to authors (France) |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841 | S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States) |
1842* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom) |
1842 | Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom) |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1844 | H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States) |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1846* | Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1851* | SACEM's act of constitution (France) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1852 | Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1856* | Copyright Act Amendment (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1861* | Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870 | Committee Report on S.703 (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1876* | Act on the Protection of Written Property, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1884* | Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1885 | Carte v. Duff (United States) |
1886* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1886 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
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 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (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) |
1902* | Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary: [1] |