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| current | 23:57, 7 January 2017 | | 7,780 × 5,164 (27.73 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <i>The Pirate Publisher—An International Burlesque that has the Longest Run on Record</i> by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, published as a centrefold in <i>Puck</i>, v. 18, no. 468 (1886 February 24). A commentary on the state of copyright laws that, prior to a 1911 treaty, generally offered no protection to foreign authors and works. <p>In the cartoon, hordes of German, Norwegian, French, English, and American authors surround a publisher who republishes their newly-created works without attribution or royalties in a foreign country, as international law then allowed. Of note is <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" class="mw-redirect" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a>, fifth from the right in the front row, as the many unauthorised or "pirate" productions of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" class="extiw" title="en:H.M.S. Pinafore">H.M.S. Pinafore</a></i> caused him and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" class="extiw" title="en:Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> to première <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance" class="extiw" title="en:The Pirates of Penzance">The Pirates of Penzance</a></i> in America, to at least gain the initial profits there before anyone else could exploit it, and the title and subject of <i>The Pirates of Penzance</i> is sometimes - although somewhat dubiously in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">my</a> opinion - considered to partially be a reference to the issue of pirate productions of their works. Other authors shown include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" class="extiw" title="en:Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennyson" class="extiw" title="en:Tennyson">Tennyson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning" class="extiw" title="en:Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._C._Burnand" class="extiw" title="en:F. C. Burnand">F. C. Burnand</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola" class="extiw" title="en:Émile Zola">Émile Zola</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" class="extiw" title="en:Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorien_Sardou" class="extiw" title="en:Victorien Sardou">Victorien Sardou</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" class="extiw" title="en:Wilkie Collins">Wilkie Collins</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr." class="extiw" title="en:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.</a>, as well as many others. </p> This has been a very difficult restoration - there were actually 3 or 4 false starts as I tried to get around a very nasty crease in the original. I think it came out pretty well in the end, though. |
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