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"Against All Invasion": The Archival Story of Kipling, Copyright, and the Macmillan Expansion into Canada, 1900-1920

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From: Journal of Canadian Studies
Date: 20060401
Author:MacLaren, Eli

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 co pyright. 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 ...

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