Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain / Robert Spoo.

"Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap

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Main Author: Spoo, Robert E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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.