Politics in Publishing - The Internationalization of the Japanese Book Market: Publishers, Business Organizations and the State, 1900-1960 KU Leuven
On April 18, 1899 Japan accessed the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works that had been established in 1886 by a federation of mainly European states upon demand from various authors’ and publishers’ associations. Once the treaty was concluded, the international Bureau of the Berne Union aimed for a global expansion of its treaty thus beginning efforts to gain more members and further extend the protection of ...