Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain /
Spoo, Robert E.
Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain / Robert Spoo. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, - xvi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Modernist literature & culture . - Modernist literature & culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index.
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.
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-to the fury of Charles Dickens, among others, who sometimes received no money from vast sales in the United States. American publishers avoided ruinous competition with each other through "courtesy of the trade," a code of etiquette that gave informal, exclusive rights to the first house to announce plans to issue an uncopyrighted foreign work. The climate of trade courtesy, lawful piracy, and the burdensome rules of American copyright law profoundly affected transatlantic writers in the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unknown legal archives, Robert Spoo recounts efforts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Bennett Cerf, the founder of Random House, and others to crush piracy, reform U.S. copyright law, and define the public domain.
9780199927876 0199927871
Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892
2012040019
GBB359023 bnb
Copyright--History.--United States
Copyright, International--History.
Law and literature.
Droit d'auteur--Histoire.--
Droit d'auteur international--Histoire.
Copyright.
Copyright, International.
Law and literature.
Urheberrecht
Geschichte
Auteursrecht.
Bellettrie.
Publieke domeinen.
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.
History.
KF2994 / .S65 2013
346.7304/82
Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain / Robert Spoo. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, - xvi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Modernist literature & culture . - Modernist literature & culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index.
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.
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-to the fury of Charles Dickens, among others, who sometimes received no money from vast sales in the United States. American publishers avoided ruinous competition with each other through "courtesy of the trade," a code of etiquette that gave informal, exclusive rights to the first house to announce plans to issue an uncopyrighted foreign work. The climate of trade courtesy, lawful piracy, and the burdensome rules of American copyright law profoundly affected transatlantic writers in the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unknown legal archives, Robert Spoo recounts efforts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Bennett Cerf, the founder of Random House, and others to crush piracy, reform U.S. copyright law, and define the public domain.
9780199927876 0199927871
Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892
2012040019
GBB359023 bnb
Copyright--History.--United States
Copyright, International--History.
Law and literature.
Droit d'auteur--Histoire.--
Droit d'auteur international--Histoire.
Copyright.
Copyright, International.
Law and literature.
Urheberrecht
Geschichte
Auteursrecht.
Bellettrie.
Publieke domeinen.
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.
History.
KF2994 / .S65 2013
346.7304/82