May 2009 Archives

Main Stacks: KF390.5 .C6 I65 2009
Information technology law institute 2009 : Web 2.0 and the future of mobile computing : privacy, blogs, data breaches, advertising, and portable information systems / co-chairs, Peter Brown, Leonard T. Nuara.

Core documents related to the history of copyright in the world form a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond.  There is a very nice interactive timeline that indicates important legal documents relating to copyright law by language.  Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing, Inc. (1903) is the last case listed for U.S. American English.  There is even a cartoon about the outcome of the Bleistein case. The site offers access to core documents for Germany, France, Britain,  Italy and the US.

http://www.copyrighthistory.org/