Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain Robert Spoo. title to a public domain work. This agreement to refrain from poaching on other houses potentially injured foreign authors because there was no competition to better the offer of the ...
Written by one of the leading authorities on the subject, the book covers such topics as: · Obscenity laws and censorship · Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain · Patronage and literary piracy · Privacy, defamation, publicity ...
... public domain in US jurisprudence became “an aggressively legislated commons.” Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 3. 5. Martha Woodmansee, “The Genius and the ...
... public domain. How did American publishers monetize such a public domain when its chief resource—popular foreign titles—could be reprinted abundantly, by anyone and everyone, without permission or fear of liability? How did lawful piracy ...
... publishers had acquired the author's copyright before publishing or performing the work, even with no suggestion that an assignment had occurred. Byers also appeared to appreciate that a deficient registration system presented unique ...
... (without permission) excerpts of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (then titled ... Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain (2016). When Random ... publishing agreement with Shakespeare and Company. The contract, dated 9 December ...
... Copyright, multiple witnesses complained of the fact that first performance abroad ... publishing companies did pay successful British novelists for their work ... Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain (Oxford ...
... Public Domain.” https:// joycefoundation.utulsa.edu/home/joyce-copyright/joyce-works-copyrightpublic-domain/ Spoo, Robert. “Three Myths for Aging Copyrights ... Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain. New York: Oxford ...
... Copyrights : Piracy , Publishing , and the Public Domain ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 ) . 23. On the importance of geography , see Johns , Piracy , 13–14 , 41–56 . 24. Michael Birnhack, “Copyright Pioneers,” WIPO Journal 5, ...
... Copyright Law”, Publishing Research Quarterly (Winter 1991–1992): 23. 2 Robert Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 68‒9; also “The Manufacturing Clause: ...