Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public domain /
Robert Spoo.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- xvi, 355 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Modernist literature & culture .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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