| Session and Chapter. | Title. | Short Title. |
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| 8 Geo. 2, c. 13. | An Act for the encouragement of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical, and other prints by vesting the properties thereof in the inventors and engravers during the time therein mentioned. | The Engraving Copyright Act, 1734. |
| 7 Geo. 3, c. 38. | An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the eighth year of the reign of King George the Second, for encouragement of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints, and for vesting in and securing to Jane Hogarth, widow, the property in certain prints. | The Engraving Copyright Act, 1766. |
| 15 Geo. 3, c. 53. | An Act for enabling the two Universities in England, the four Universities in Scotland, and the several Colleges of Eton, Westminster, and Winchester, to hold in perpetuity their copyright in books given or bequeathed to the said universities and colleges for the advancement of useful learning and other purposes of education; and for amending so much of an Act of the eighth year of the reign of Queen Anne, as relates to the delivery of books to the warehouse keeper of the Stationers’ Company for the use of the several libraries therein mentioned. | The Copyright Act, 1775. |
| 17 Geo. 3, c. 57. | An Act for more effectually securing the property of prints to inventors and engravers by enabling them to sue for and recover penalties in certain cases. | The Prints Copyright Act, 1777. |
| 54 Geo. 3, c. 56. | An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act of His present Majesty for encouraging the art of making new models and casts of busts and other things therein mentioned, and for giving further encouragement to such arts. | The Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814. |
| 3 Will. 4, c. 15. | An Act to amend the laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property. | The Dramatic Copyright Act, 1833. |
| 5 & 6 Will. 4,c. 65. | An Act for preventing the publication of Lectures without consent. | The Lectures Copyright Act, 1835. |
| 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 69. | An Act to extend the protection of copyright in prints and engravings to Ireland. | The Prints and Engravings Copyright Act, 1836. |
| 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 110. | An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the fifty-fourth year of King George the Third, respecting copyrights, as requires the delivery of a copy of every published book to the libraries of Sion College, the four Universities of Scotland, and of the King’s Inns in Dublin. | The Copyright Act, 1836. |
| 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45. | An Act to amend the law of copyright. | The Copyright Act, 1842. |
| 10 & 11 Vict. c. 95. | An Act to amend the law relating to the protection in the Colonies of works entitled to copyright in the United Kingdom. | The Colonial Copyright Act, 1847. |
| 25 & 26 Vict. c. 68. | An Act for amending the law relating to copyright in works of the fine arts, and for repressing the commission of fraud in the production and sale of such works. | The Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862. |