Modernism and Copyright

How was modernism shaped by copyright law? How did modernists, for their part, exploit, reform, and evade intellectual property law? In pursuit of these questions, Modernism and Copyright brings together essays by well-known scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates.

About the author

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.

Summary

How was modernism shaped by copyright law? How did modernists, for their part, exploit, reform, and evade intellectual property law? In pursuit of these questions, Modernism and Copyright brings together essays by well-known scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates.

Additional text

An absorbing inquiry, from multiple perspectives. into how intellectual property laws and practices in the last century have embodied, shaped, and responded to foundational assumptions about the nature of identity, property, creativity, and collectivity.

Product details

• Authors: Paul K. Saint-Amour, Paul K. (EDT) Saint-Amour
• Assisted by: Paul K. Saint-Amour (Editor), Saint-Amour Paul K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2010
• EAN: 9780199731534
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973153-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Music, LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Theatre Studies, Copyright Law, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Music of film and stage