Title: Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain /
Authors: Spoo, Robert E.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Copyright United States History.; Copyright, International History.; Law and literature.
Abstract: "Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap.
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.