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For the encouragement of learning : the origins of Canadian copyright law /

"For the Encouragement of Learning addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada's earliest...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tawfik, Myra J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2023]
Colección:Studies in book and print culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Contextualizing Colonial Copyright in Nineteenth-Century British North America
  • 2. How Copyright Laws Originate: The Anglo-American Copyright Tradition
  • 3. Dr. François Blanchet and the Quest for Copyright in Lower Canada
  • 4. Copyright, Education, and Schoolbooks: Joseph Lancaster in Montreal
  • 5. The Making of the 1832 Copyright Act
  • 6. Authors and Publishers, Teachers and Schoolbooks: The Impact of the 1832 Copyright Act
  • 7. Copyright Law in British North America Leading Up to the UK Copyright Act of 1842
  • 8. Imperial Interposition and Colonial Defiance: The Circulation of British Copyright Works in British North America from 1842 to 1850
  • 9. Copyright and "Canadian Content" in the Province of Canada
  • 10. The Imprint of the Province of Canada on Copyright Law and Policy in the Dominion of Canada (1867-1924)
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Methodology Employed to Determine Copyright Registrations in Lower Canada from 1832 to 1841
  • Appendix 2: Reconstructed Copyright Registrations in Lower Canada from 1832 to 1841 in Order of Registration Date
  • Appendix 3: Methodology Employed in Chapter 9 to Determine Copyright Registrations in the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1867
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index