Primary Sources on Copyright - Browse Data

Primary Sources on Copyright - Browse Data
PRIMARY SOURCES
ON COPYRIGHT
(1450-1900)
Stationers Charter (1684) -
Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Würzburg (1479) -
Rabbinic Reprinting Ban for Eliyahu Bakhur, Rome (1518) -
Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (1593) -
Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act, London (1799) -
Oscar Wilde photograph, New York (1882) -
Bleistein: Cartoon, Chicago (1903) -
Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly, Venice (1469) -
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, Madrid (1898) -
French Literary and Artistic Property Act, Paris (1793) -
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This is a freely-accessible, publicly-funded digital archive that collects together significant documents relating to the history of copyright law and practice. The documents have been selected by national editors, with the input of an editorial advisory board. Key documents are, where appropriate, transcribed and translated. The editors have written commentaries, explaining the reasons for selecting documents and their significance. The project was launched in 2008, initially funded by the AHRC in relation to 5 countries. Since 2024 it is supported by the AHRC as UK research infrastructure. The archive now extends to more than 20 (including historical and religious) jurisdictions and over 700 primary source documents. They can be browsed by date/language/jurisdiction, or searched.
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1469*
Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1474*
Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1477*
Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1479*
Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1485
Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany)
1486*
Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1487*
Printing Privileges to Monasteries (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1498*
Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1501
Vergilius (Italy)
1501
Le Cose volgari. (Italy)
1501*
Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1501
Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes, London (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1502
Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters (Italy)
1502*
Licensing Rules (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1502
Privilege of the Imperial Senate for Works of Conrad Celtis (Germany)
1502*
Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes, Lisbon (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1503*
Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1503
Scotto v. Benalio (Italy)
1503
Durante v. Torresani (Italy)
1503*
Privilege granted to Valentim Fernandes, Lisbon (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1504*
A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi (Italy)
1504*
Privilege Granted to Benedetto Bordon (Italy)
1506
'Lamentationum Jeremie Prophete' (Italy)
1506
Nebrija's Printing Privilege (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1507*
Eloy d'Amerval's privilege (France) Commentary:
[1]
1508*
Privilege granted to Jacobo Cromberger (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1509*
Privilege granted to Tommaso Pighinucci for publishing “Medicina Plinii” (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1511*
Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1511*
Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer (Germany)
1511
Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany)
1512
Lyrical Reference to an Imperial privilege for Arnolt Schlick (Germany)
1513*
Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1514*
Privilege granted to João Pedro de Cremona (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1515*
Ariosto's Printing Privilege (Italy)
1515
Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger (Germany)
1515*
Galliot Du Pré's Privilege (France) Commentary:
[1]
1516*
Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor (Italy)
1516
Ugo da Carpi's Patent (Italy)
1516
Imperial Privilege for Johannes Eck (Germany)
1516*
Privilege for the Divisiekroniek (Netherlands) Commentary:
[1]
1517*
Venetian Decree on Press Affairs (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1517
Privilege of the Duke of Bavaria (Germany)
1518*
Rabbinic Reprinting Ban for Eliyahu Bakhur (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1518*
The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1525
Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany)
1526
Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's 'Triompho di Fortuna' (Italy)
1527*
Venetian Decree on Pre-publication Censorship (Italy)
1530*
Privilege granted to Germão Galharde (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1530*
La Fleur de la science de pourtraicture (France)
1531*
Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy)
1531*
Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy)
1531*
Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1531
Francis I's letter patent to Pierre Attaignant (France)
1532
Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's 'History of Florence' (Italy)
1533*
Schott v. Egenolph (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1534
Melchiore Sessa's privilege for Machiavelli's works (Italy)
1534
Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany)
1536*
Privilege granted to Gonçalo de Baena (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1537*
Privilege granted to Baltasar Dias (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1537*
Ordinance on the Production and Use of Books in Printed Form, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1538*
Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1539
Appointment of Academic Printer at the University of Copenhagen (Scandinavia)
1545*
Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary:
[1]
1545*
Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence (Italy)
1545*
Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1546*
Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy)
1547*
French Censorship Act (France) Commentary:
[1]
1549*
Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy)
1549*
Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy)
1550*
Rema Ruling re: Maharam of Padua (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1551
French Censorship Act (France)
1552*
General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard (France) 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)
1554*
Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1554
Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom)
1556*
Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy)
1556 (1555 m.v.)*
Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy)
1557*
Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1557
The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1558*
Censorship Rules (Spain)
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*
Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
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
Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom)
1559
Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom)
1560
Counterfeited papal privilege (Germany)
1565
Lauritz Benedicht's Printing Monopoly (Scandinavia)
1566*
Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1568*
Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints (Italy)
1570
Ordinance concerning Printers, Booksellers and School masters (Netherlands) Commentary:
[1]
1571*
Privilege granted to Andrea Palladio for his Four Books on Architecture, with supporting endorsement by member of the Roman Inquisition (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1572
Privilege granted to Luís Vaz de Camões (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1572
Privilege for Petrus Johannis Godhus (Scandinavia)
1579
Privilege for the Deux-Aes Bible (Netherlands) Commentary:
[1]
[2]
1579*
Notice of Rabbinic Reprinting Ban (Jewish Law)
1582*
Revocation of Papal privilege to print and distribute Roman [Gregorian] Calendar and Martyrology (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1584
Privilege for Squaring of the circle (Netherlands)
1586*
Simon Marion's plea on privileges (France) Commentary:
[1]
1586*
Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1587*
Privilege to Giovanni Giolito di Ferrari for publication of Paolo Comitolo's "Catena in Beatissimum Job," and revocation of Jean Stratius' privilege in the same work (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1588*
Petition of and Privilege to Tolomeo Veltroni for illustrated edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1589*
Petitions from and Privilege granted to Gerard Voss for his Latin translation of the works of St. Ephrem of Syria (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1589*
Bosio's edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1590*
Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy)
1591
A publisher's 'Friendly Reminder' about reprints (Germany)
1593*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1593*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Giulio Burchioni for publishing a combined volume of works on table service and household management (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1594*
Council of Four Lands Printing and Book Trade Regulation (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1596*
Motu proprio controversy (Italy)
1596*
Total Ban on Book Imports, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1598
Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1598*
Petition of and Privilege to Orazio Torsellini for his History of the House of Loreto (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1599*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Alfonso Chacón for publishing the works of his uncle, historian Alonso Chacón (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1600*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Pietro Fetti to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1602*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Marcantonio Rossi for publishing choral work by the late Giovanni Guidetti of Bologna (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1603*
Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy)
1603*
Privilege granted to Francisco Soto to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1603*
Petition and Privilege for printing and distributing the Summa of St. Raymond of Peñafort (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1604*
Petition for licence and privilege by Cervantes (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1604*
Petition from and Privilege granted to Cosimo Gaci to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian (Vatican) Commentary:
[1]
1605*
Don Quixote’s Privilege (Spain)
1605*
Don Quixote’s Privilege Extensions (Spain)
1606*
Reprinting Ban for Bedek Ha-Bayit (Jewish Law)
1607
General privilege granted to Pierre Ballard (France)
1608
The States-General's ban on certain publications of the 'Bycorff' (Netherlands)
1614*
Publishing Agreement: the Spanish translation of Ludovico Blosio oeuvre (Spain)
1617
Continued Ban on Possessing, Selling or Distributing Imported Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1618*
Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary:
[1]
1618
Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom)
1624*
Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1625-1626*
Resolutions concerning the Dutch School Order (Netherlands)
1632*
Privilege for the States Bible (Netherlands)
1637*
Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1643*
The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1643
An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom)
1643*
Establishment of the First Printing House in Norway (Scandinavia)
1644
Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom)
1647
Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom)
1649
Book trade regulations (France)
1649
An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom)
1650s*
Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France)
1653
An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom)
1656*
Privilege du Roy [Charles Le Brun] (France)
1657
Preface to Silesius's Chant Book (Germany)
1658*
Schupp: The Book Thief (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1660*
Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1660*
Decree on Engravings (France)
1660
The 'Fixed and Indissoluble' Contract of Printers and Booksellers (Netherlands)
1662*
Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1662
Licensing Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1663
L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom)
1665*
French book trade regulations (France)
1666
Henning: The Highly Lauded Bookmaker (Germany)
1667*
Milton's Contract (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1667
Recital of the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1669*
Revocation of the Privilege granted to Pieter Hackens (Netherlands)
1670
Exclusive Rights to the Book Trade in Christiania (Scandinavia)
1672*
Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1673
Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1675*
Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1676*
Decree on Sculptures (France)
1677*
Pirated edition of Calderón de la Barca's comedias (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1684
Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1684*
Renewed Swedish Censorship Laws (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1686*
Book trade regulations (France)
1686
Resolution concerning the Grant of Book Privileges (Netherlands)
1686
Abolition of All Monopolies in the Book Trade in Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1688
Establishment of a Printing Press in Iceland (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1688
Laws Concerning Printing, Censorship, and Distribution of Books and Almanacs, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1690
Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1690
Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (Germany)
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]
1691*
Pseudo-Vera Tassis: Fake edition (Spain)
1691
Pseudo-Vera Tassis: Fake edition II (Spain)
1693
Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom)
1695
Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom)
1700
Bladen's Privilege (United States)
1701*
Royal letters patent (France) Commentary:
[1]
1701*
Censorship Instruction for Newspapers, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1704*
Defoe's Essay on the Press (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1706
Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709
Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709
More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709
Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom)
1710
Willing Agreement of Booksellers in Amsterdam, Leyden, Rotterdam,
The Hague, Utrecht, etc. (Netherlands)
1710
General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden (Netherlands)
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]
1713
Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany)
1714
Decree on Fine Arts (France)
1715*
Order on the Petitioning and Obtaining of Book Privileges (Netherlands)
1721*
Burnet v. Chetwood (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1721
Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom)
1721
Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom)
1721
Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1723
Freedom to Print Non-Privileged Books, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1724*
Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1725
French book trade regulations (France)
1725-1726*
Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary:
[1]
1725-1726*
Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary:
[1]
1728*
Notice against the Printing of Books under the names of Professors at the University of Leyden (Netherlands) (Netherlands)
1729
Gay v. Read (United Kingdom)
1735*
Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1735
The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom)
1735
Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1737*
Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1737*
Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1737
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom)
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
Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs (Italy)
1740
Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (Germany)
1740*
Encyclopaedia Article on 'The Reprinting of Books' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1741*
Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports) (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1741*
Pope v. Curl (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1741
Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom)
1741
Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom)
1741
Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom)
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)
1747*
Warburton's Letter from an Author (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1748
Privilege Granted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Print Almanacs (Scandinavia)
1749*
Crébillon case (France) Commentary:
[1]
1750
Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Booksellers, Paper Manufacturers and Bookbinders (Germany)
1750
New York Law Printing Privilege (United States)
1751
Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom)
1752*
Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain)
1752*
Privilege Tranfers: Contract between Antonio Sanz and his bookseller (Spain)
1752
Regulations and Rules for the Printing Industry in Sweden (Scandinavia)
1759*
Sieur d'Anville's contract (France) Commentary:
[1]
1761*
La Fontaine case (France) Commentary:
[1]
1761
Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom)
1762*
Free Trade Regulations (Spain)
1762*
Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary:
[1]
1762*
Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1762*
An Enquiry into Literary Property (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1762
A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom)
1763*
Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain)
1763*
Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary:
[1]
1764
Parisian Booksellers memorandum (France)
1764
Licence to Establish an Office of Advertisements in the City of Bergen (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1765*
Philipp Erasmus Reich and the Leipzig publishers' cartel (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1765
Reich v. Pauli (Germany)
1766
Prussian Cabinet Order (Germany)
1766
Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1766
Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (United Kingdom)
1766*
The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1769*
Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1770
Avis aux gens de lettres (France)
1770*
Luneau de Boisjermain's case (France)
1770
Abolishment of Censorship (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*
Saxonian Statute (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1773
Reimarus: The publishing of books (Germany)
1773
Reich: On Book Publishing (Germany)
1773
On Klopstock's proclamation of a 'Republic of Scholars' (Germany)
1773*
Hinton v. Donaldson (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1773
Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom)
1773
Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom)
1773
Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1774*
Pütter: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1774
The Justified Reprinter (Germany)
1774
Imperial Privilege for a reprint series (Germany)
1774
The justified reprinter (Germany)
1774
Booktrade in Austria (Germany)
1774*
Donaldson v. Becket (United Kingdom) 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)
1774
Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom)
1774
Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom)
1774
Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom)
1774
Stella's Modest Exceptions (United Kingdom)
1775*
Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1776*
Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary:
[1]
1776*
Fragments on the Freedom of the Press (France) Commentary:
[1]
1777*
Royal declaration on sculpture and painting (France)
1777*
French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges (France) Commentary:
[1]
1777*
Linguet's memorandum (France) Commentary:
[1]
1777*
Bach v. Longman (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1777
Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1778*
Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary:
[1]
1778
Decree on counterfeitings (France)
1779
Séguier's report (France)
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)
1780
Beaumarchais's report (France)
1780
Decree on Dramatic Literary Property (France)
1780*
Dramatic Act (France)
1781*
'Pezzana e Consorti' case: counter-petition and rulings (Italy)
1781
Chodowiecki's Allegory 'Works of Darkness' (Germany)
1781*
Andrew Law's Petition (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1781
Andrew Law's Privilege (United States)
1782
Letter from Smith to Webster (United States)
1783
Petition of John Ledyard (United States)
1783*
Connecticut Copyright Statute (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1783
Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States)
1783
Continental Congress Resolution (United States)
1783
Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States)
1783
Maryland Copyright Statute (United States)
1783
New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States)
1783
New Hampshire Copyright Statute (United States)
1783
Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States)
1783
Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States)
1784
Cella: On Reprinting of Books (Germany)
1784
Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States)
1784
Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States)
1784
South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1785*
Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1785*
Kant: On the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1785
Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (Germany)
1785
Virginia Copyright Statute (United States)
1785
North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1786
The Slandered Man (Germany)
1786*
French Decree on Musical Publications (France)
1786
Georgia Copyright Statute (United States)
1786
New York Copyright Statute (United States)
1787*
Calico Printers' Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1787
Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1787
Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States)
1787
Madison's Journal Record (United States)
1787
Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States)
1788
On literature and the book trade in Austria (Germany)
1788
The Federalist No. 43 (United States)
1789
Becker: On the property right in intellectual works (Germany)
1789*
The Constitutional Copyright Clause (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1789
Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States)
1789
House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (United States)
1789
Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States)
1789
Ramsay's Petition (United States)
1790-1800
Sample registrations (United States)
1790
The Blue Man (pseudonym): Reprinting, contra and pro (Germany)
1790
Vindication of property against robbery (Germany)
1790*
J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban on reprinting within the whole Empire (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1790
J.F.F. Ganz's draft for a general ban of reprinting [extended version] (Germany)
1790*
Sieyès' report (France) Commentary:
[1]
1790
Boufflers' report (France)
1790*
Petition by the printmakers and proprietors of copperplates to the National Assembly, May (France)
1790*
Copyright Act (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1791
Reimarus: Book Publishing (Germany)
1791
Fauth: On reprinting of books without the knowledge and consent of the first publisher (Germany)
1791*
Le Chapelier's report (France) Commentary:
[1]
1791*
Report of François Hell to the National Assembly (France) Commentary:
[1]
1791
Beaumarchais's petition (France)
1792 [1791]
Müller: On Publication Piracy (Germany)
1792*
Barcelona Newspaper' Printing Privilege (Spain)
1792
Knigge: On the Reprinting of Books (Germany)
1792
Reimarus: Publishing right with regard to reprinting (Germany)
1792
Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States)
1793*
Fichte: Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1793*
French Literary and Artistic Property Act (France) Commentary:
[1]
1794*
Prussian Statute Book (ALR) (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1794*
Contract between Schiller and Cotta (Germany)
1794*
Petition by citizen makers of plaster casts to the National Convention, 3rd March (France)
1795
Provincial decree of Holland abolishing Book Privileges and bestowing a Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1796
Lobethan: On Publishers' Privileges (Germany)
1796
Book Decree of the Province of Holland (Netherlands)
1798*
Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1798*
Beckford v. Hood (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1798
Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1799*
Kehr: Apology of the Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1799
Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom)
1799*
Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia)
1801*
Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1801
A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1801
Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1802
1802 Amendment (United States)
1803
National Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands)
1805
Memorandum of the Batavian Republic restricting the copying and selling of State Documents (Netherlands)
1806
Reprinting Regulation for the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany)
1808*
Amended Book Act of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands)
1809*
Baden Civil Code (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1810
Imperial decree on the book trade (France)
1810
Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1812
Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom)
1812*
Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia)
1813*
Rules to preserve the property of authors over their works (Spain)
1813
Bavarian Penal Law Book (Germany)
1813
High Court of Justice on the Right to Copy of Evangelical Hymns (Netherlands)
1813
Sovereign Decrees on Official State Publications (Netherlands)
1813
Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom)
1813
Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom)
1813
Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom)
1813
Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1813
Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1814*
Court of Cassation on sculptures (France) Commentary:
[1]
1814*
Court of Cassation on compilations (France) Commentary:
[1]
1814
Sovereign Decree on the Book trade and the property of Literary Works (Netherlands)
1814*
Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1814
Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1814
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom)
1814
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom)
1814
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom)
1814
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom)
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)
1815*
Annotated Publishers' Petition to the Congress of Vienna (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1815
Sovereign Decree on the right of property of translations of foreign works (Netherlands)
1815
Booksellers’ Deed of Commitment against Reproduction (Netherlands)
1817
Act regulating the printing and publication of literary and artistic works (Netherlands)
1817
Advice on the application of the 1817 Act to works copyrighted before 1817 (Netherlands)
1818
Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom)
1818
Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1820
High Court of Justice on the application of the 1817 Act to translation disputes (Netherlands)
1821*
Hegel: Remarks on Intellectual Property (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1821
Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands)
1822*
Constitution of 1822 (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1822
Royal decree on the printing and publishing of state documents by individuals (Netherlands)
1824*
Neustetel: The Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1825
Merlin on counterfeiting (France)
1826*
Constitutional Charter of 1826 (Portugal)
1826*
Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France)
1826
Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (United States)
1826
Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster (United States)
1827*
Treaties on reciprocal protection between Prussia and various German States (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1827*
Kramer: Rights of Writers and Publishers (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1828
Court of Appeal on moral rights (France)
1828*
Maugham's Treatise (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1828
Letter from Donaldson to Peters (United States)
1828
Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton (United States)
1828
Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States)
1828
H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States)
1828
H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States)
1829
Music publishers' agreement to ban reprinting (Germany)
1829
Printing statutes in the Canton of Zürich (Germany)
1829
Hessen Copyright Act (Germany)
1830*
Amended music publishers' agreement against piracy (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1830
Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom)
1830
Judiciary Committee Report (United States)
1830
Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States)
1831*
Copyright Act (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1831
House Debate (United States)
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
Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) (United Kingdom)
1833
Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom)
1834*
Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment (Spain)
1834
Review of Neustetel's book (Germany)
1834*
Balzac's letter to authors (France)
1834*
Wheaton v. Peters (United States)
1834*
Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States)
1834
Letters from Sumner to Story (United States)
1835*
Copyright statement of Johann Strauss for Austria and Prussia (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1835*
Sofer Responsum on Vilna-Slavuta Talmud Dispute (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1835*
Publication of Lectures Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1835
Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (United Kingdom)
1835
Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) (United Kingdom)
1835
Publication of Lectures Bill (United Kingdom)
1836
Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act (United Kingdom)
1837*
Royal Order on Dramatic Copyright (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1837*
Royal Order on Music Copyright (Spain)
1837*
Prussian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1837*
Directive for reciprocal copyright protection within the German Confederation (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1837
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom)
1837
Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1837*
Senate Report (United States)
1837
Petition of British Authors (United States)
1837
Debates in Congress (United States)
1837
Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States)
1838*
Remarks on Literary Property (Spain)
1838
Ordinance on the Establishment of Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)
1838*
Constitution of 1838 (Portugal)
1838*
International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1838
Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom)
1838
Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) (United Kingdom)
1838
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom)
1838
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom)
1838
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1838
Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1838
Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1838
Address of Certain Authors (United States)
1838
Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States)
1838
Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States)
1838
Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States)
1839*
First Copyright Bill (Portugal)
1839
Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1839
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1839
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom)
1839
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) (United Kingdom)
1840*
Bilateral Treaty between Austria and Sardinia (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1840
Hölzl: On Reprinting of books (Germany)
1840
Supreme Court on Literary Property of the State (Netherlands)
1840
Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1840
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1840
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1840
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) (United Kingdom)
1841*
Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France)
1841
Court of Cassation on artistic property (France)
1841
Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1841
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom)
1841
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom)
1841
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1841
Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1841*
Folsom v. Marsh (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1841
Master in Chancery Report (United States)
1841
S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States)
1842*
Court of Cassation on artistic property (France) Commentary:
[1]
1842*
Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1842*
Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom)
1842
Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom)
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)
1842
Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) (United Kingdom)
1842
Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (United States)
1843
Amsterdam District Court on the exclusive right to translate a foreign literary work (Netherlands)
1843
An Address to the People of the United States (United States)
1844*
Saxon Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1844
Commentary on the Saxon Copyright Act (Germany)
1844*
Act on the property right of playwrights' widows and children (France)
1844*
International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1844
International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1844
H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States)
1845
Court of Appeal on right of publication (France)
1845*
Court of Appeal on translations (France) Commentary:
[1]
1845
Supplement to the Regulations of the Association for the Book trade on the right of preference on translations (Netherlands)
1846*
Bilateral Treaty between Prussia and Great Britain (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1846
Expert Opinion on Schelling v. Paulus (Germany)
1846*
Austrian Copyright Act (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1846
Handbook of German press legislation (Germany)
1847*
Literary Property Act (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1847*
Foreign Reprints Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1847
Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom)
1847*
A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1848*
Copyright Formalities: Registration (Spain)
1848
Expert opinions of the Prussian Literary Experts' Association 1838-1847 (Germany)
1848
Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States)
1850
Supreme Court on the protection against reprinting of public sermons (Netherlands)
1851*
First Copyright Law, 1851 (Portugal)
1851*
SACEM's act of constitution (France)
1851
Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom)
1852
Theory of Reprinting. Presented according to the directives of the German Confederation (Germany)
1852*
French International Copyright Act (France)
1852*
International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1852
Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1852
Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom)
1852
Copyright and Natural Right (United States)
1853
Bilateral Treaty between Hamburg and Great Britain (Germany)
1853*
Bluntschli: On Authors' Rights (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1853
Court of Cassation on translations (France)
1853
Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom)
1853
Letters on International copyright (United States)
1853
British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States)
1853*
Stowe v. Thomas (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1853
Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States)
1853
Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States)
1853
Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States)
1853
'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States)
1854*
Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain)
1854
Literary and Artistic Property Act (France)
1854*
Jeffreys v. Boosey (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1855
Agreement between the Netherlands and France on the reproduction of scientific and literary works (Netherlands)
1856-1857
Controversy on reproduction of foreign works (Netherlands)
1856*
Copyright Act Amendment (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1857*
Anglo-Spanish Copyright Treaty (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1857*
Wächter: 'Publishing Right' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1857*
Court of cassation on originality (France) Commentary:
[1]
[2]
1857
Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom)
1858
Provincial Court of Appeal on the right to copy Tollens’ works of poetry (Netherlands)
1858
Association for the Book trade’s Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1858
Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom)
1859*
Casado's PhD on Copyright (Spain)
1860
Association for the Book trade’s Amended Draft of a Bill on the Right to Copy (Netherlands)
1860*
Nathanson Ruling in Matter of Yoreh De'ah (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1860
Turner v. Robinson (United Kingdom)
1861*
Supreme Court on Originality (Spain)
1861*
Court of Cassation on telegraphic news (France) Commentary:
[1]
1861
Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1861
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom)
1861*
Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States)
1862
Bretón de los Herreros' Copyright Contract (Spain)
1862*
Court of Cassation on photography (France) Commentary:
[1]
1862
Provincial Court of Appeal on the transfer of the right to copy in Max Havelaar (Netherlands)
1862
Principles adopted by the Royal Academy of Sciences on Literary and Artistic Property (Netherlands)
1862*
Fine Art Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1862
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1862
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) (United Kingdom)
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 (22 May) (United Kingdom)
1862
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom)
1862
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom)
1862
Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom)
1862
Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1862
Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom)
1862
Southern Feeling (United States)
1863
Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States)
1863
Hardee's Memorial (United States)
1863
International Copyright Resolution (United States)
1865*
Copyright Act Amendment (United States)
1866
Reports of Riché, Perras, Sainte-Beuve. (France)
1866*
Literary and artistic property act (France)
1867*
Schäffle: 'Authors' rights as an artificial means for safeguarding remuneration and annuities' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1867*
Mandry: Commentary on the Bavarian Copyright Act of 1865 (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1867*
Seabra Civil Code, 1867 (Portugal)
1867*
Cour de Cassation on moral rights (France)
1868*
Colonial Copyright Extensions (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1868*
Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France)
1868
Regulations of the Association for the Book trade (Netherlands)
1869*
Court of Cassation on originality (France)
1869
Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
[2]
1869
Graves’ Case, London (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1869
Victorian Copyright Act, Victoria (United Kingdom)
1870*
Copyright Act for the German Empire (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1870
Societies of Copyright Experts (Germany)
1870*
Copinger's Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1870
Committee Report on S.703 (United States)
1870*
Copyright Act (United States)
1872*
Supreme Court on Artistic Copyright (Spain)
1872
Morillot on the personal right of publication (France)
1872
Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom)
1872
International Copyright Bill (United States)
1873
Committee on the Library Report (United States)
1873-1876
Controversy on reproduction of foreign works in the Netherlands and of Dutch works overseas (Netherlands)
1873-1908*
Opuscles (Portugal) Commentary:
[1]
1874
Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom)
1876*
Copyright Acts for the German Empire regarding works of art, photography, and designs (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1876
Book Printer H. J. Jensen vs. The Poet Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavia)
1876
Act on the Protection of Written Property, Norway (Scandinavia)
1877*
Supreme Court on Music Copyright (Spain)
1877*
Gareis: Juridical Nature of Author's Rights (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1877
Netherlands Lawyers' Association’s debate on the principle behind author’s rights protection (Netherlands)
1877*
Swedish Copyright Act (Scandinavia) Commentary:
[1]
1878*
Spanish Copyright Formalities: Certificates (Spain)
1878*
Morillot on the author's right (France)
1878*
Royal Commissioners' Report (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1878
Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1879*
Copyright Act (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1879
Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom)
1879
Memorial of the Royal Academy of Arts, London (United Kingdom)
1879*
Drone on Copyright (United States)
1879*
Baker v. Selden (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1879
Selden's Argument (United States)
1879
Baker's Argument (United States)
1880*
Copyright Regulations (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1880
Franco-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain)
1880
Anglo-Spanish Bilateral Copyright Treaty (Spain)
1880*
Kohler: Author's Right (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1881
Copyright Act (Netherlands)
1882*
Danvila’s Copyright Treatise (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1882
Oscar Wilde photograph (United States)
1883
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (United States)
1883
Sarony's Brief (United States)
1883
Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States)
1884*
Bilateral Copyright Treaty between Spain and El Salvador (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1884
Bilateral treaty between Switzerland and France (Germany)
1884*
Orelli: 'Swiss Copyright Act 1883 with comments and appendices' (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1884
Bill on the regulation of copyright on works of visual arts (Netherlands)
1885*
First Inscriptions of Works at the Spanish Copyright Office (Spain)
1885
Carte v. Duff (United States)
1886*
International Copyright Act (United Kingdom) Commentary:
[1]
1886
International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1886
Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom)
1886
Berne Convention (United Kingdom)
1886
Committee on Patents Report (United States)
1887*
International Literary Congress in Madrid (Spain)
1887
Court of Cassation on international copyright (France)
1888*
Civil Code (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1888
American Authors and British Pirates (United States)
1888
The International Copyright Bill (United States)
1890*
Copyright Pocketbooks (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1890
Report on H.R. 10881 (United States)
1891
50 Prussian Expert Opinions from 1870-1876 (Germany)
1891
Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. (United States)
1891*
International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States)
1892*
Bilateral treaty between the German Reich and the U.S.A. (Germany) Commentary:
[1]
1892
Supreme Court on the protection of non-original writings (Netherlands)
1893
Falk v. Donaldson (United States)
1894*
Copyright Formalities: Bulletin (Spain)
1894
Report on H.R. 6835 (United States)
1894
H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States)
1895*
Núñez de Arce’s Will (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1896
New Zealand Copyright Act, Wellington (United Kingdom)
1896
Regarding Norway’s Accession to the Berne Convention (Scandinavia)
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)
1896
The Question of Copyright (United States)
1897*
Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States)
1898*
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain (Spain) Commentary:
[1]
1899*
Schmelkes Responsum (Jewish Law) Commentary:
[1]
1899
Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom)
1899
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States)
1900
Artistic Copyright Bill, London (United Kingdom)
1900
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States)
1902*
Court of Cassation on moral rights (France) Commentary:
[1]
1902
Bleistein's Brief (United States)
1902
Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States)
1902
Bleistein: Three Posters (United States)
1903*
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (United States) Commentary:
[1]
1903
Bleistein: Cartoon (United States)