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I'm in the middle of reading Michael Slater's biography of Charles Dickens, and it's excellent (if a little fawning). Given that I grew up just a few miles from the Medway town where Dickens spent his childhood, it's pretty embarrassing how little I knew about the 19th century's greatest British author. And given my obsession with copyright law, it's equally shameful that, until reading Slater's book, I knew nothing of his campaign for an International copyright treaty. The campaign was well-meaning, but essentially self-interested: Dickens held the UK copyright of his famous works "" like the Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist "" but, in the USA (where Dickens was also hugely popular), publishers were free to steal his work and characters and republish them in books, newspapers and periodicals without paying royalties.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Up-1ueyugwQ/
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