Talk:John Walsh (printer)

I recently came across an mention of Walsh from "The Emergence of Musical Copyright in Europe from 1709 to 1850" by Frederic M. Sherer (Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 3-18, December 2008). Sherer writes: "to avert John Walsh’s chronic piracy of his works, George Frideric Handel made Walsh his official publisher and sustained a continuing relationship." This apparently was the norm of the era: "...publishers such as John Walsh in London and the Probst firm in Leipzig would obtain works published elsewhere and put out their own editions, needless to say, without paying compensation". I had never heard of Walsh or Probst before, but I came across this while researching the origins of copyright in Europe. Just an interesting tidbit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.242.53 (talk) 20:44, 26 December 2010 (UTC)