The Primary Sources on Copyright project aims to identify and collect the primary sources of copyright law between 1450 and 1900, from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and a little beyond.
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Patricia Akester and Victor Drummond are the coordinators of the Portuguese-Brazilian strand of the Primary Sources on Copyright research project.
For each of the geographical zones/jurisdictions, national editors take responsibility for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating and commenting documents. These include privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts and materials relating to legislative history, but also contemporary letters, essays, treatises and artefacts.
General editors: Lionel Bently & Martin Kretschmer
Editors for Portugal & Brazil: Patricia Akester & Victor Drummond