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.
By:
Myra Tawfik
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781487545246
ISBN 10: 148754524X
Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
Reviews for For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law
""" For the Encouragement of Learning examines the nineteenth-century origins of Canadian copyright. Its evidence-based approach grounded in book history brings a new richness to our understanding of copyright in this period, shedding light on the origins and objectives of early copyright law. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a true understanding of copyright in Canada."" --Sara J. Bannerman, Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, McMaster University, and author of The Struggle for Canadian Copyright "" For the Encouragement of Learning is an essential text for fully understanding the origins and development of copyright law in Canada. By grounding her insights in deeply researched historical contexts - colonial and Anglo-American copyright, educational and cultural trends, resistance to British copyright laws, the reading needs of French Canadians, to name but a few - Myra Tawfik has given us a landmark study for assessing Canadian copyright law's past, present, and future."" --Robert Spoo, Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of English, University of Tulsa ""Painstakingly researched and meticulously written, Myra Tawfik's book provides a sweeping picture of early Canadian copyright history while dropping delicious anecdotes. Vast amounts of information are put together and transformed for the reader to experience an easy storytelling of Canadian copyright law within general Canadian history. It is the pre-Confederation copyright history book that was missing in Canada."" --Ysolde Gendreau, Faculty of Law, Universit� de Montr�al"
