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- Title
"Against All Invasion": The Archival Story of Kipling, Copyright, and the Macmillan Expansion into Canada, 1900-1920.
- Authors
MacLaren, Eli
- Abstract
The Macmillan Company expanded into Canada in order to defend its imperial monopolies, particularly that on the works of Rudyard Kipling. The expansion was an offshoot of the growing New York house, but its fundamental intent was to bind the slippery Canadian market to the purposes of imperial copyright. George N. Morang had abruptly deprived Macmillan of this market with the first effective monopolies in the history of the Canadian book trade. He acquired these copyrights through licences that fulfilled the Canadian "Copyright Amendment 1900." If authors, such as Kipling, increasingly retained proprietary control of their works, and if at the same time Canadian publishers such as Morang acquired the legal means to prohibit certain British editions from entering Canada, then a British publisher such as Macmillan suddenly stood to lose a great deal. This deprivation provoked a decisive reaction. Within a few years, the Macmillan Company of Canada was a chartered business based in Toronto, and it had clawed back control of Kipling's works in Canada. The expansion helped prevent the growth of an independent Canadian publishing industry in the first decades of the twentieth century.
- Subjects
CANADA; ARCHIVES; MACMILLAN Co.; ARCHIVAL resources; MONOPOLIES; COPYRIGHT
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2006, Vol 40, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/jcs.40.2.139