IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 M 12.0 U IIIIII.6 V} <9 /}. "(3 /. 'c^: 7 CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical Notes / Notes techniques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Physical features of this copy which may alter any of the images in the reproduction are checked below. D Coloured covers/ Couvertures de couleur L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemp!aire qu'il lui a 6td possible de se procurer. Certains ddfauts susceptibles de nuire d la quality de la reproduction sont not6s ci-dessous. 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March jol/i. 181^5. |iyi'i;;lll I'm- tllr I'llitrll Stiltl'S. stipu- lan.uliu «rkf> 11111^(1101.116*11(1 I ri'priiilMi-aiinot I'ritjiin t'lioiiiims siulciiiciils Inning Im'cm ciTiiiliilrd willi icjjiiid ti> tlic Ciuiiiiliiiii Onpyiiglil Ai'l "f IM89, it liiis Iktii (Iffiiiril iulvi»ulili' liv llif ('ii(iyii(,'lit AssiMiiiliun i>f (Juiiiiila In ihsiic tl'v follnwiiiK i-t,ali'iiiiMils ; Tim Caniuliiiii Oopyrii'lit Aft nt' ISS'J was uiiiiiiIimiiukIv iiasscil liv \\w I'liiliiiini'iil of Ciiimilii, and ii'i'fiMiti'd tn i"r"'rai hy tin' (iiiveriiiir-(!i'iu'iiil. Till! Act WUM to coiiii' into opcnitiuii on ptdclaiiialloiL of llir I iovi'rnurdi'MiMal. Till- (loM'iMorti.N..V. Act of I.HCiT. The followinf,' are anion;; the I'imhoiih why the Act should lie |ii'oelalined : A I'opyiiKli' i'* aiialagoiis to a piit«iit. Tlic Canadian (.'o|iyrii;lit .Set is anala<{ous to thi' t'anmliaii Patent a .i<|i\niiht . . #, 1 'I'l 1 ■ 1 <• 11 1. 11 aimlnifoui 10 » Act. llial rateiit .\et reinnic.s niaiiutactun; 111 Canmla. I lie llii|ieiial liovcriiiiii'Mt ihd not ihsallow the iiatmi. Patent .\(t. i'he linpeiial ( ■o\einineiit would not pinpo.se thai .i rniloil .Slates patentee, on serwiin^ the liriti.sh patent, should theicliy seeiiie the I'anadian patent. Why should the Imperial ( iovciii it assure the I'nited Staten author, that on securing I'opyri^dil in (niat I'litain, he thereliy secures ( 'opyri;_dit in t'anaila ! (Jaiiaihi e.xdusively le^dslates a.s to the terms on which patents may he secured in Canada. Caiiadii should he permitted to exercise the same powers as to the teinis on which copyrights may lie secured in Canmla. The I'niteil Stales piililishi'r when liuyiiii; fniin a liriti^h author 1 1 lates that Canada shall he included. Canadians resent this sale of iheii market, and pir-lsi in iheir I'l.aini lo .idopi, such le^isl.ii ion as will put a stop Ihi'ielii. I'he fc.ir thai Canadian publishers would llood llie iSrilisli ,ind Iniled .Slates markets with cheap I'ditions, i luimimu ib utterly unfonnded, as the Copyright Acts of those countries prohihil the iinportalion and sale of nnauthorisi^d rffloUiVr editions, and impose a heavy lienally for violation of the law, C.uiadian pulilisheis. therefore, loiild not llood '""''"'" either market with cheap editions. It has liappeneil that oriiei's for hooks sc:it to I ondun have lieen iclurned with " cannol su|i|ily marked thereon, llius foieiiiK (Jaiiadiaiis to huy tliose hooks from the I'liiti'd Sljites pulilisliers. (^n the other hand, the British publisher [iriiils a cheap filitioii of a work hy .1 United .States author. This cheap edition is c.spoii.ed to Canada. .\n illustration on this point is furnished in the ca.se of I'. Marion Crawforil's Imok. "The lialstoiis." 'I'his hook was published in thi> Cnited .States at S'J. It was published 8imultaiieouslyinlbT.il Itritaiii .it IJ shilling's. Ihit the Itritish publishers printed a cheap Colonial edition which -olil in Can.id.i for "•") cents. This cheap eilition was on sale in Canada within a day or two after the publicali f ilie I'nited Stale- .s-J edition. Here, ihen. is a Itritish publisher issuing' a ohi'a|> paper- edition for sale in Canada when one of ihe m.iiii objeclioiis of the opponents of the Can.idiaii Act, which is made to do duty on I'very occasion, is that the Canadian publisher will issue cheap paper editions which will ll(X)d the l.^nited States market in conipetitioii with tlii> niori' I'Xpensive I'inted States editions! It must be ilistiiictiv uiiderstoiKl. ho«i'M-r, that this cheap paper edition, wliiili is sold in Canada, iloes )inl llood llie I'nited States market, for the very e\eellenl reason, already slaleil. that the I 'iiiled Slates Cipyriu'hl .\ct prohibits its ini- piirlali'in iir -ale in the rnited .Slates. The Canadian .Set permits ihe inn.ort.ali.in of liiil ish edition,- of work-, w hel her copvii'dited here or pub li"i'"f'» ""f" ' , 1 . 1 . " 1 ,,.,11, iiriiaiii. lished under the lovnlly cl.iu-e of the .\ii ; hut cM-lndc's toreiyn editions. should the author (be he ISrilisli or Americanl ne;;lecl to secure c.ipyriuhl in I beat Ihitain. any publisher [^''ii'^^™!!^' Jj°, niav reprint the work llii'ie svilhoiit payiiij; the author. Should the .■iiithor neglect lo secure copyrifihl in the I'liiled States, any publisher may reprini llicwink there without paying; the .lutlior. Should the author neglect to .secure copyright in Canada, no Canadi.in piibli-her .iiuld reprint the work In Canada without payin;; the author ten per cimU. royally. It is therefore clearly seen that w Idle I lie |{iiii-h and I'niled St.ati's .\cls perinil the piracy of authors' works, tlii> Canadian .\cl iloi's not. The inti' in the Canadian ,\ct was not orii;inal with I hi' proinot^'i's thereof. i'Ik- I'oyK.' The idea was siiimcsted by the Korci^n lieprints .\ct, p.i-sed by the Imperial I'arliament, which allows a I'nited Slates publisher, or ol her foreign publisher, who has printed a mpy right book without permission, to DUjiply the Canadian market on payment of a royalty of I2.J, pi'r cent . .ollected on the wholesale price of the Ixiok, which royalty goes to the IJritish copyright owrii'r. It was but iialural for the Canadian to desire to 1)0 placed on an eipial footing with the foreign publisher, so far as his own market was coneerned. Therefore a royalty of Id per cent, on the retail price of the book was suggested. Kiirlhermore, many dilliculties havi' Imjcii encountered in collecting the royalty on iniport.s, it being almost impo,ssibli' to keep a eomplet.e and accuiati' list at every Custom House, ami to cheek every invoice therefroiu. The collection of the royally on reprints, on the other hand, is provided for by the Canadian Law in a perfectly safe manner, as tin' Inland Ucvenue l»epartiiieiit is to stamp the title page of each copy of every Iniok ibsuetl, and l«'fore this is done the royally must U' paid to the (ioveriinient to the credit of the author. An a mutter of fact, then, the author will exchange IiIn royalty of 12^ per cent, on iiuporUi, which ia uncertain of collection, for a royalty on reprints of 111 pi'r cent, on the retail price, which is certain of collection. ^^ipr.fj c)n t>ot? In : >inii|i)riM.{ I Ills (|ii vstinu, til' y • i^i'.ipliic il |i nitinn i)f (\:iiiilii, siili' liy sicli' willi Uic Ilnitnd StiiteM, r:i tint many iiilviintii^iis are given to aulliois by tint lattiT. Tj s.'jure copyri)(!it in tin Unitf-l Sii'.is, tli must lie imported iiiio Canada, and moreover these edilinns are, in many ea«es, piihlished at such ]iriees as to put ihcm beyond the reach of the great majority of ('anadian reailers. British authors arc now able to secure i.ipyright in the I'nile:! States, and United Slates authors are now able to secure c)|iyright in (ireat Britain (which covers Canada'. Tlien'fore the copyright owners now refu,se to p"iiit in Cinala, Tln'V su]i])ly this inirl;ei with e.liiions print'iil either in the I'nited States or Ureal Britain, This is considered a great injury to the priming, pip-r and allied indastri-!s in Canada, It is, ui'ireover, a source of trouble and annoyanie to the p'ople of Cmida, as till British inirket is so far away that, after tin' supply on hand of a book is e.vhausted, some weeks must elapse before a new supply can be procured, .V circular, containing objections to the Cmadian .\'t, hi- b ■ 'ii rcjently issued in England. 'I'lioe objec- tions should not prevail. Tile ciri'ular stales thit Ciiiadi has asked the British (iovernment to sanction arrangements to take copy- right in ('anada away from all British authors except such as are Canadians, Such is not the case. Canada does not propose to take away lopyriglil in Canada from British authors, Tlio Jb-itish author and the United States author may, under the Canadian Act, secure copyright in Canathi on exactly the same terms as the Can- lulian author, flis olijected that the Canadian .-Vet will injure the value of the British edition, because the Canadian edilion could bi impirteil into th'; Uiiit"d Kingdom and the other colonies, and compete with it. But from the icjiort of lyord Knutsford's Copyright Commission of 1 S92, it appears that, at the instance of the British copy- right owners, the law of (ireat Britain w.i- fraiii td so that the importation of Canadian reprints of British works into Ureal Britain is prohibited. It is objecttMl tliat the Canadian .\ctisal variance with the Free Trade principles of the Unilied King- dom, That may be. The Canadian TarilV Act is also avowedly at variance with the Kree Trade principles of the United Kingdom -yet the British (iovernment would not propose to interfere with it. Ft is objected tli.it the Cinadiaii .\cl A'ill destroy the British author's present means of securing copyright in till' Cniti'd States of .\iii ■rica That is only an opinion. Are not the British publishers themselves alone rcspjisiblc for the a','ilalion a',iainst allowing B-itish authors to hold copyright in the United States? The action of the Brilish Music I'liblishers' ,\ssociation in cinlesting what is known as the " manufacturing " clause in th • United States .Vi't, has (liini British authors incalculable harm in ihe United Stat^-s , and if the Brilish iirisic publisher.s will not accept that ininufacturing clause, (as British biok |)ublishers have very wisely done), British authors may yet Knd themselves depri^ied of the banetit of copyright in tlie United States. As to the B.'rne C invention, it should li;' understood that the Oana'lian Parliamnit never adopted or agrejil to the B^rne C invention. On the contrary, the Canadian Parliiim"nt has twice asked that notice be given of Canaila's desire that the conv.'ntion bi' denounced. Most of the other objcL'tiims are based on the supposition that the auilior loses I'ontrol over his work under the Canadian Ad, Nothing could be further from the fact, since, by eumplying with the terms of the Act, authors and copyright owners retain entire control of their works and may suppress old editions, or issue new ones as desired, Canadians insist on the full right of the Parliament of Canada to pass and enact legislation on copyright as desired from lime to time ; the same as they enjoy on the other subjects entrusted to that Parliament under the B,N',A, Act of iHi;;, The right of the Pailiam 'iii of (Janida lo enact and enforce its own copyright legislation has been en- dorsed liy the una'iimous vote of the Parliament and Senate of Caniula ; by the Newspaper Press of Canada ; by the Board of Trade of the l-'ity of Toronio, and other cities ; by the Kiiiploying Printers of Canada ; by the Typographical Unions and Prii.ling Pressmen's I'nions ; by the Trades and Ijilmr Iknincils (coinprising representatives from the various trades), by tlie Bo(ik,seller.s' and Paper Makers' A,ssociation, and by many others. The above reasons, amongst others, for the enforcement of the Copyright Act of ISCi), were laid liefore .Sir Mackenzie Bowell, the Premier of the D.iininion of Canada, and Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, the .Ministjir of .Justice, by an inlbiential deputation of the Copyright /Vssociation of Caniula, at Toronio, in hebruaiy, b'^'.l.'i. Signed on bclialt'of the Copyright .\ssociat Ion of Caiiuda, Ocoi{ra|>tll('Al pMlikon, .\