James L.W. West III (1992), 'The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations', Studies in Bibliography, 45, pp. 303-11.

The long battle in the United States for passage of an international copyright law ended finally in March 1891 with the passage of the Chace Act, the first American international copyright statute. Historians have regarded the bill as a milestone, an indication that the United States was renouncing its stance as an international pirate and was entering into normal copyright relations with other civilized countries. Literary scholars have followed this lead and have assumed that the Chace Act more or less ended the long feud between the intellectual establishments in England and America over international copyright. The reality, as we shall see in this article, was somewhat different.