Modernism and Copyright

by Saint-Amour, Paul K.

• ISBN13: 9780199731534
• ISBN10: 0199731535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How was modernism shaped, from its beginning, by intellectual property law? What role did the law's imperial and transatlantic asymmetries play in modernism's dissemination? How did various modernists exploit, reform, anoint, and evade copyright? And how is the study of modernism today being affected by expanding copyright regimes? Modernism and Copyright is the first book to take up these questions. A truly multi-disciplinary study, it brings together essays by scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates. Its contributors' methods are as diverse as the works they discuss: Ezra Pound's copyright statute and Charlie Parker's bebop compositions feature here, as do early Chaplin films, EverQuest, and the Madison Avenue memo. As our portrait of modernism expands and fragments, Modernism and Copyright locates works such as these on one of the few landscapes they all clearly share: the uneven terrain of intellectual property law.

Author Biography

Paul K. Saint-Amour is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: Modernism and the Lives of Copyright	p. 1
Portraits of the Modernist as Copywright
Ezra Pound, Legislator: Perpetual Copyright and Unfair Competition with the Dead	p. 39
Thinking Back through Copyright: Individual Rights and Collective Life in Virginia Woolf's Nonfiction	p. 65
Melodic Properties of the Culture System
Rhythm Changes: Contrafacts, Copyright, and Jazz Modernism	p. 89
Melody, Theft, and High Culture	p. 114
The Fall and Rise of Remix Culture
Gag Orders: Comedy, Chaplin, and Copyright	p. 135
Marked by Modernism: Reconfiguring the "Traditional Contours of Copyright Protection" for the Twenty-first Century	p. 155
Regimes of Attribution and Publicity
The Modern Author at Work on Madison Avenue	p. 173
Modernism and the Emergence of the Right of Publicity: From Hedda Gabler to Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon	p. 195
Biography, Privacy, and Copyright
"The Quick in Pursuit of the Dead": Ian Hamilton and the Clash between Literary Biographers and Copyright Owners	p. 217
Privacy and the Misuse of Copyright: The Case of Shloss v. the Estate of James Joyce	p. 243
Calving the Wind
Beyond the Grave: Continuing Life through Great Works	p. 263
Mens Sine Affectu	p. 265
Modernism After Modernism After Modernism
"It's Good to Be Primitive": African Allusion and the Modernist Fetish of Authenticity	p. 275
Solomon's Bluff: Virtual Property and the Aesthetics of Modern Worldmaking	p. 302
Appendix: Copyright Protection and Users' Rights: Frequently Asked Questions	p. 325
Bibliography	p. 339
Contributors	p. 359
Index	p. 363
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