Development of International Copyright Laws, Competition with British Works and the Growth of National Literature of America and Canada

在19世纪的大部分时间里，由于没有国际版权条约，英国作家的作品在美国重印时没有支付适当的版税。英国作家对这种情况表示不满;此外，美国和加拿大作家不得不与英国作品竞争，因为英国的作品可以在不向作者付款的情况下制作，他们在为自己的作品寻找出版商方面遇到了困难。在这项研究中，我研究了国际版权法的发展与美国和加拿大建立民族文学运动之间的关系。

Throughout most of the nineteenth-century, in the absence of an international copyright treaty, works by British authors were reprinted in the United States without proper royalty payments. British authors expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation ; moreover, American and Canadian authors had to compete with British works which could be produced without payment to authors, and they were experiencing difficulty in finding publishers for their works. In this study, I have looked into the relationship between the development of international copyright laws and the movements towards the establishment of national literature in the United States and Canada.