Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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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. Fran�cois 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

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