1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643 | An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom) |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1649 | An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1710* | Statute of Anne (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1710 | A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1711* | Legal Deposit at the Royal Library (Spain) |
1713* | 'Books Constitution' of Emperor Rudolf II (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1721 | Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom) |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1729 | Gay v. Read (United Kingdom) |
1737* | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1737 | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1761* | La Fontaine case (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
1773* | Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1774 | Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) |
1777* | French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (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) |
1783* | Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1783 | Maryland Copyright Statute (United States) |
1783 | New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States) |
1784 | South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States) |
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) |
1789 | Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States) |
1790-1800 | Sample registrations (United States) |
1790* | Copyright Act (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1791* | Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary: [1] |
1793* | French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1798* | Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1801 | A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom) |
1812 | Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom) |
1814* | Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom) |
1814 | Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom) |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1828 | H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States) |
1830* | Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1837* | Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1838* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1838 | Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom) |
1838 | Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom) |
1839 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1840 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1841 | Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
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* | Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1844* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1844 | International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom) |
1846* | Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Britain (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1848* | Copyright Formalities: Registration (Spain) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1851 | Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom) |
1852* | International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States) |
1853 | Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States) |
1854* | Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain) |
1857* | Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom) |
1862 | Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom) |
1863 | Hardee's Memorial (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1870 | Committee Report on S.703 (United States) |
1870* | Copyright Act (United States) |
1876* | Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1877* | Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Spanish Copyright Formalities: Certificates (Spain) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1879* | Copyright Act (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1879 | Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom) |
1883 | Sarony's Brief (United States) |
1883 | Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States) |
1884 | Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany) |
1885* | First Inscriptions of Works at the Spanish Copyright Office (Spain) |
1891 | 50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany) |
1894* | Copyright Formalities: Bulletin (Spain) |
1896 | Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States) |