Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain /
Without Copyrights tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself. From its inception in 1790, American copyright law offered no or less-than-perfect protection for works published abroad-t...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013
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| Series: | Modernist literature & culture
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Growing the American public domain
- The American public domain and the courtesy of the trade in the nineteenth century
- Transatlantic modernism in the American public domain
- Ezra Pound's copyright statute: Perpetual rights and unfair competition with the dead
- Ulysses unauthorized: Protectionism, piracy, and protest
- Joyce V. Roth: Authors' names and Blue Valley Butter
- Ulysses authorized: Random House and courtesy
- Epilogue: Disturbing the American public domain