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.

AcknowledgmentsSeries Editors' ForewordPaul K. Saint-Amour"Introduction: Modernism and the Lives of Copyright"I: Portraits of the Modernist As CopywrightRobert 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 SystemMark Osteen"Rhythm Changes: Contrafacts, Copyright, and Jazz Modernism"Joanna Demers"Melody, Theft, and High Culture"III: The Fall and Rise of Remix CulturePeter Decherney"Gag Orders: Comedy, Chaplin, and Copyright"W. Ron Gard & Elizabeth Townsend Gard"Marked by Modernism: Reconfiguring the 'Traditional Contours of Copyright Law' for the Twenty-First Century"IV: Regimes of Attribution and PublicityCatherine L. Fisk"The Modern Author at Work on Madison Avenue"Oliver Gerland"Modernism and the Emergence of the Right of Publicity: From Hedda Gabler to Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon"V: Biography, Privacy, and CopyrightMark A. Fowler"'The Quick in Pursuit of the Dead': Ian Hamilton and the Clash Between Literary Biographers and Copyright Owners"Carol Loeb Shloss"Privacy and the Misuse of Copyright: The Case of Shloss v. The Estate of James Joyce"VI: Calving the WindStanford G. Gann, Jr."Beyond the Grave: Continuing Life Through Great Works"Mary de Rachewiltz"Mens Sine Affectu"VII: Modernism After ModernismJoseph R. Slaughter"'It's good to be primitive': (Re)Placing Africa at the Ends of Modernism"Eric Hayot & Edward Wesp"Solomon's Bluff: Virtual Property and the Aesthetics of Modern Worldmaking"Appendix: Copyright Protection and Users' Rights-Frequently Asked QuestionsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex