1545* | Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
1656* | Privilege du Roy [Charles Le Brun] (France) |
1676* | Decree on Sculptures (France) |
1701* | Censorship Instruction for Newspapers, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1735 | The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom) |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1750 | Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany) |
1759* | Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) 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] |
1770* | Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France) |
1773* | Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1774* | Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1777* | Royal declaration on sculpture and painting (France) |
1777* | Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1780* | Dramatic Act (France) |
1783 | Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States) |
1794* | Petition by citizen makers of plaster casts to the National Convention, 3rd March (France) |
1799* | Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1810* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
1821* | Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1832* | Gans: On the right to perform published stage plays (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1832 | Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom) |
1837 | Petition of British Authors (United States) |
1837 | Debates in Congress (United States) |
1838 | Address of Certain Authors (United States) |
1838 | Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States) |
1838 | Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States) |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1842* | Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary: [1] |
1848 | Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States) |
1853* | Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1853 | Letters on International copyright (United States) |
1853* | Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1857* | Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1862* | Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1870* | Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1878* | Morillot on the author's right (France) |
1878 | Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom) |
1890 | Report on H.R. 10881 (United States) |