Modernism and Copyright [Paperback]

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 Copyrightis 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.

Acknowledgments

Series Editors' Foreword


Paul K. Saint-Amour
Introduction: Modernism and the Lives of Copyright

I: Portraits of the Modernist As Copywright

Robert Spoo
Ezra Pound, Legislator: Perpetual Rights and Unfair Competition with the Dead

Celia Marshik
Thinking Back through Copyright: Freedom and Fair Use in Virginia Woolf's Nonfiction

II: Melodic Properties of the Culture System

Mark Osteen
Rhythm Changes: Contrafacts, Copyright, and Jazz Modernism

Joanna Demers
Melody, Theft, and High Culture

III: The Fall and Rise of Remix Culture

Peter Decherney
Gag Orders: Comedy, Chaplin, and Copyright

W. Ron Gard & Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Marked by Modernism: ReconlÓ3