Book contents
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- 6 People Not Machines
- 7 Australian Legislation Abroad
- 8 ‘The Berne Convention Is Our Ideal’
- 9 A Future of International Copyright?
- 10 ‘Trade-Related’ after All?
- 11 Intellectual Property, Innovation and New Space Technology
- 12 Intellectual Property and Private International Law
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
8 - ‘The Berne Convention Is Our Ideal’
Hall Caine, Canadian Copyright and the Natural Rights of Authors after 1886
from Part II - Across Jurisdictions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2020
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- 6 People Not Machines
- 7 Australian Legislation Abroad
- 8 ‘The Berne Convention Is Our Ideal’
- 9 A Future of International Copyright?
- 10 ‘Trade-Related’ after All?
- 11 Intellectual Property, Innovation and New Space Technology
- 12 Intellectual Property and Private International Law
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Summary
This chapter documents how British writer, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine used the Berne Convention to popularise authors’ rights on a speaking tour of Canada in 1895 (where on behalf of the Society of Authors, British Parliament and American publishers he was tasked with preventing Canada’s effective withdrawal from the Berne Convention). Caine’s efforts demonstrate how the tension between the utopian idea of copyright as a natural right and the political pragmatism that Ricketson identified as underpinning the Berne Convention 1886 played out in practice. This history helps us understand how the idea of a universal right of authors continues to influence the public imagination as the main rationale for copyright.
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- Across Intellectual PropertyEssays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, pp. 102 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020