BoingBoing points to a NY Times article from 1897 discussing claims from the U.S. music publisher industry about "Canadian pirates." Earlier this year, I sat on the doctoral committee of Sara Bannerman, who has written a remarkable dissertation that traces the pressure Canada faced on copyright from both the U.S. and U.K. which dates even earlier than this article.
Canadian Music Piracy Claims, Circa 1897
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“What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!” ^H^H..^H copyrast!
Russian poet Pushkin writing to Benkendorf in 1827 complaining about the fact that some jurisdictions still have copyright laws that permit those who publish translations to publish the original works as well.
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/copyright/58233/