France

Date

Document

1

1507

Privilege granted to Eloy d'Amerval, for his book, the Livre de la deablerie

2

1515

Privilege granted to Galliot Du Pré, printer, for Le grant coustumier de France

3

1547

Edit

4

1552

General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard

5

1586

Simon Marion's plea on privileges, author's right and public domain

6

1618

Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian Book trade (statuts de la communauté des libraires, imprimeurs et relieurs de Paris)

7

1640s (?)

Mémoire

8

1649

 Edit du Roy containing new regulations for the Book Trade

9

1657

Parliament of Paris' decision on privileges duration and public domain

10

1660

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi (King's council decree)on engravings

11

1665

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on privileges (Josse v. Malassis)

12

1676

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi

13

1686

Book trade regulations (statuts)

14

1686-1690

Mémoire

15

1714

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi

16

1725

Mémoire of Blondel on the Parisian booksellers "vexations"

17

1725

Mémoire of Louis d'Héricourt on the Author's literary property

18

1723-1744

Saugrain's publication of the Code de la librairie (1723 book trade regulations)

19

1749

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on Author's rights (Aff. Crébillon)

20

1757

Règlement pour les comédiens ordinaires du Roi, Dramatic Act.

21

1759

Contract between an author, le Sieur d'Anville, and his booksellers (Desaint, Saillant and Durant)

22

1761

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi

23

1762

Déclaration royale on privileges granted to inventors

24

1763

Diderot's Letter on the Book Trade

25

1770

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi

25.1

1777

Mémoire to the Men of Letters (Avis aux Gens de Lettres)

26

1776

Mémoire

27

1776

Fragments

28

1777

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi

29

1777

Linguet's opinion on the 1777 Decrees

30

1790

Loi relative aux découvertes utiles…(Revolutionary Patent Act) with the report of de Boufflers

31

1791

Loi relative aux spectacles…

32

1791

Report of François Hell to the National Assembly on perpetual literary property

33

1791

Beaumarchais' petition to the National Assembly

34

1793

pLoi relative aux droits de propriété des Auteurs d'écrits en tout genrep

35

1810

Imperial Decree on the Book Trade (on duration on artistic and literary property)

35.1

1844

1844 Dramatic Act

35.2

1854

1854 Act

36

1814

Cour de Cassation

36.1

1814

Conclusions of Merlin on the same topic

37

1834

Letter of Balzac to the French writers of the nineteenth century (on international counterfeiting and collaboration of les Hommes de lettres to defend their rights)

38

1841

Report of Lamartine to the Deputy Chamber on literary and artistic property duration

38.1

1841

Intervention of Renouard on the same topic and on the nature of droit d'auteur

39

1841

Cour de Cassation, 23 July (Aff. des Pyramides) on artistic property

40

1844

Cour d'Appel (Court of Appeal), 7 November (Aff. Girardin) on translations p

41

1851

Statuts

41.1

1883

Decision Tribunal Civil de la Seine, 30 November

42

1852

Report of M. Abbatucci and Decree on international counterfeiting

43

1861

Cour de Cassation, 8 August (Aff. Havas Bullier) on telegraphic news and the 1793 Statute

44

1863

Me Rendu's plea on photography

45

1866

Loi sur les droits des héritiers et des ayants cause des Auteurs

46

1867

Cour de Cassation, 21 August (Aff. Delprat) on protection of periodical writings ("moral" rights of their authors, collaborative works, press), with some remarks of Thiercelin.

47

1868

Les Majorats Littéraires, Proudhon

48

1878

De la nature du droit d'auteurp, Morillot

49

1887

Cour de Cassation

50

1902

Cour de Cassation, 25 June (Aff. Lecocq) on the consecration of the author's moral rights