The Stationers' Register was a journal maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. The company is a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate the various professions associated with the publishing industry, including printers, bookbinders, booksellers, and publishers in England. The Register itself allowed publishers to document their right to produce a particular printed work, and constituted an early form of copyright law. The Company's charter gave it the right to seize illicit editions and bar the publication of unlicensed books. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Copyright symbol. ...

In 1710, the Copyright Act or Statute of Anne entered into force, superceding company provisions pertaining to the register. The company continued to offer some form of registration of works until February of the year 2000. The Statute of Anne (8 Anne c. ...

External links

The Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company Official site of the Stationers' Company in its current incarnation.