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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.

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