Article published in The New York Times about copyright infringement in Canada and the United States. "Music Pirates in Canada American Publishers Say They Are Suffering by Copyright Violations There – Steps Taken for Redress. "Canadian pirates” is what the music dealers call publishing houses across the line who are flooding this country, they say, with spurious editions of the latest copyrighted popular songs. They use the mails to reach purchasers, so members of the American Music Publishers’ Association assert, and as a result the legitimate music publishing business of the United States has fallen off 50 per cent in the past twelve months.”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86135/pic-music-industry-angry-over-piracy-from1897/

13 June 1897

The New York Times

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