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For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.
List of contents
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
About the author
Myra Tawfik is the Don Rodzik Family Chair in Law and Entrepreneurship and a Distinguished University Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.
Summary
For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.
