Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain : piracy, publishing, and the public domain

Without Copyrights reveals the impact of copyright law on transatlantic modernism in the United States. Key aspects of modernism James Joyce's reputation in America, Ezra Pound's proposals for copyright reform, Samuel Roth's activities as a pirate-pornographer are re-examined in the light of the U.S. law and the voracious public domain it created.