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

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For the encouragement of learning : the origins of Canadian copyright law / Myra Tawfik.

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"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 copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright's normative purpose. Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the mass production of educational material. The book reveals that copyright laws were integral features of British North American education policy and highlights the important roles played by teachers, education reformers, and politicians in the emergence and development of the law. It also explains how policy-makers began to consider the relationship between copyright and cultural identity formation once British interference into domestic copyright affairs increased, and as Canadian Confederation neared. Using methodologies at the intersection of legal history and book history, For the Encouragement of Learning embeds the copyright legal framework within the history of Canada's book and print culture."-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 148754524X
ISBN: 9781487545246
Physical Description: xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-363) and index.
Additional Physical Form available Note:: Issued also in electronic format.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

(7)

1 Contextualizing Colonial Copyright in Nineteenth-Century British North America

(20)

Reception of British Copyright Law in British North America

(3)

Securing a British Copyright: The Statute of Anne 1710 and Its Amendment in 1814

(7)

Recognition of a Non-statutory or Common Law Right in Published Works

(5)

The Right of Petition

(2)

2 How Copyright Laws Originate: The Anglo-American Copyright Tradition

(18)

The Statute of Anne 1710: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning

(6)

The Statute of Anne and the Diffusion of Knowledge

(7)

(5)

3 Dr Francois Blanchet and the Quest for Copyright in Lower Canada, 1824--1827

(32)

Francois Blanchet and the Lower Canadian Enlightenment

(6)

The Publisher and the Scientist: The Genesis of Patent and Copyright Laws in Lower Canada

(5)

The First Patent Act: An Act to Promote the Progress of Useful Arts in This Province, 4 Geo. 4, c. 25 (1824)

(2)

The Politics of Education in Lower Canada

(4)

Education and Schoolbooks in Lower Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

(7)

The Petition of Hamilton Leslie for a Premium or Reward for a New System of Teaching

(5)

One Final Attempt: The Parliamentary Session of 1827

(1)

The Early Copyright Bills and Their Provenance

(2)

4 Copyright, Education, and Schoolbooks: Joseph Lancaster in Montreal

(29)

Joseph Lancaster: Author and Publisher

(12)

"...But Here Is No Copy Right or Present Security": Joseph Lancaster, Joseph-Francois Perrault, and Copyright in Lower Canada

(13)

5 The Making of the 1832 Copyright Act

109

(26)

The Standing Committee on Education and Schools: Copyright Policy and the Politics of Education, Literacy, and Learning

109

(4)

The Report of the Education Committee

113

(3)

The Necessity of Schoolbooks and the Little Time, Talents, and Capital to Produce Them

116

(9)

The Influence of the Copyright Law of the United States

125

(10)

An Act for the Protection of Copy Rights, 2 Will. 4 c. 53 (1832)

129

(6)

6 Authors and Publishers, Teachers, and Schoolbooks: The Impact of the 1832 Copyright Act

135

(45)

Impact of the Act on Policy-Makers: The Education Committee and the Assembly

135

(7)

Rates and Patterns of Copyright Registrations

142

(16)

144

(5)

Rates and Patterns of Lower Canadian Copyright Registrations

149

(6)

Schoolbook Registrations

155

(3)

The Impact of Copyright on Authors, Printers, and Publishers in Lower Canada

158

(1)

New Strategies and New Publishing Practices

158

(18)

The Changed Relationship between Authors and Their Publishers

165

(1)

Courtesy of the Trade? J.H. Willis and H.H. Cunningham (1831)

166

(3)

Jean-Baptiste Boucher, John Neilson, and Neilson & Cowan (1795--1842)

169

(4)

Henri Des Rivieres Beaubien and Ludger Duvernay (1831--1834)

173

(3)

Readers and Books: Access and Affordability

176

(4)

7 Copyright Law in British North America Leading Up to the UK Copyright Act of 1842

180

(30)

181

(5)

186

(6)

188

(4)

192

(6)

An Act for the Protection of Copy Rights in This Province 4 & 5 Vict, c. 61 (1841)

198

(10)

Legal Deposit under the 1841 Act

201

(1)

Administrative Deposit

201

(2)

Library Deposit

203

(5)

British North American Copyright up to 1842

208

(2)

8 Imperial Interposition and Colonial Defiance: The Circulation of British Books in British North America, 1842--1850

210

(38)

The UK Copyright Act 1842 and Its Impact in British North America

211

(6)

The Provinces Fight Back: "A Law So Repugnant to Public Opinion Cannot and Will Not Be Enforced"

217

(8)

The Province of Canada: "Great Anxiety Prevails in Canada to Know the Decision of Her Majesty's Government"

225

(5)

The Parliament of the Province of Canada (1843): Of Tariffs and Trade in Books

230

(12)

230

(5)

The Reading Needs of French Canadians: The Three Great Departments of Religion, Literature, and Law

235

(7)

The Politics of Colonial Copyright: "We Were Required at the Dictation of Downing Street to Put a Tax on Knowledge"

242

(6)

9 Copyright and Canadian Content in the Province of Canada

248

(39)

248

(25)

251

(13)

264

(5)

Printers and Publishers

269

(4)

To Foster Native Talent: The Provincial Assembly, Printing Petitions, and Tariffs on Imported Schoolbooks

273

(14)

Schoolbook Petitions

274

(2)

With a View to Fostering Native Talent / Avec le desir de proteger le talent national

276

(6)

Provincial Tariffs on Imported Books

282

(5)

10 The Imprint of the Province of Canada on Copyright Law and Policy in the Dominion of Canada, 1867--1924

287

(16)

Epilogue

303

(8)

Appendix 1 Methodology Employed in Chapter 6 to Determine Copyright Registrations in Lower Canada from 1832 to 1841

311

(3)

Appendix 2 Reconstructed Copyright Registrations in Lower Canada from 1832 to 1841 in Order of Registration Date

314

(9)

Appendix 3 Methodology Employed in Chapter 9 to Determine Copyright Registrations in the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1867

323

(2)

Bibliography

325

(40)

Index

365

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