Copyright Protectionism and Its Discontents: The Case of James Joyce's "Ulysses" in America
Year: 1998
Type: paratext
Abstract: In 1927, the expatriate American poet, Ezra Pound, then living in Italy, dispatched to the editor of The Nation a characteristically pugnacious letter containing what must have seemed an unusual declaration: For next President I want no man who is not lucidly and clearly and with no trace or shadow of ambiguity against the following abuses: (1) Bureaucratic encroachment on the individual, as [in] the asinine Eighteenth Amendment, passport and visa stupidities, arbitrary injustice from customs officials; (2) Article 211 of the Penal Code, and all such niuddle-headedness in any laws whatsoever; (3) the thieving copyright law.' Three years later, in an article in The Hound & Horn, Pound returned to this list of "abuses," now describing them as "[c]ertain specific laws and regulations [that] are contrary to the welfare of letters in America in 1930" and placing special emphasis on "our copyright law, originally designed to 1.
Source: The Yale Law Journal
DOI: 10.2307/797499
Author: Robert Spoo
Language: English
Topic: Intellectual Property Law
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W98130580