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Charles Dickens was a vocal campaigner for stronger copyright laws in the 19th century. He was frustrated by the rampant plagiarism of his early works. In 1843, Dickens held a meeting that formed the Association for the Protection of Literature to discuss copyright abuses, which was one of the earliest efforts to organize authors. It took decades of campaigning by Dickens and others, but the Berne Convention was eventually established in 1886 to provide international copyright protections between member sta
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