Robert Spoo is Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. A former editor of James Joyce Quarterly, he is the author of James Joyce and the Language of History (Oxford UP, 1994; net sales: 880).

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: "The American Public Domain and the Courtesy of the Trade in the Nineteenth Century" ; Chapter 2: "Transatlantic Modernism and the American Public Domain." ; Chapter 3: "Ezra Pound's Copyright Statute: Perpetual Rights and Unfair Competition with the Dead." ; Chapter 4: "James Joyce's Ulysses and American Copyright Protectionism." ; Chapter 5: "James Joyce v. Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company." ; Chapter 6: "The 1934 Random House Ulysses: Copyright and Trade Courtesy. ; Epilogue

Robert Spoo takes us into a pioneering, novel, fascinating and challenging historical journey in which he imbues new life into past copyright conflicts that were told from a very specific, and rather limited, perspectives. Spoo opens a new debate that some would argue was closed decades ago--a debate reminding them that authors do not create in a social vacuum, that authors are nurtured by society, other authors and their works, and that without these resources no person could reach the status of an 'author'...I am confident that readers of Spoo's tour-de-froce will agree that he has rigorously reminded us of the many flaws we tend to cherish, and of the long-needed rethinking process of the public domain in contmeporary copyright traditions.

Robert Spoo is Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. A former editor of James Joyce Quarterly, he is the author of James Joyce and the Language of History (Oxford UP, 1994; net sales: 880).

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: "The American Public Domain and the Courtesy of the Trade in the Nineteenth Century" ; Chapter 2: "Transatlantic Modernism and the American Public Domain." ; Chapter 3: "Ezra Pound's Copyright Statute: Perpetual Rights and Unfair Competition with the Dead." ; Chapter 4: "James Joyce's Ulysses and American Copyright Protectionism." ; Chapter 5: "James Joyce v. Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company." ; Chapter 6: "The 1934 Random House Ulysses: Copyright and Trade Courtesy. ; Epilogue

Robert Spoo takes us into a pioneering, novel, fascinating and challenging historical journey in which he imbues new life into past copyright conflicts that were told from a very specific, and rather limited, perspectives. Spoo opens a new debate that some would argue was closed decades ago--a debate reminding them that authors do not create in a social vacuum, that authors are nurtured by society, other authors and their works, and that without these resources no person could reach the status of an 'author'...I am confident that readers of Spoo's tour-de-froce will agree that he has rigorously reminded us of the many flaws we tend to cherish, and of the long-needed rethinking process of the public domain in contmeporary copyright traditions.

Robert Spoo is Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. A former editor of James Joyce Quarterly, he is the author of James Joyce and the Language of History (Oxford UP, 1994; net sales: 880).

• Introduction ; Chapter 1: "The American Public Domain and the Courtesy of the Trade in the Nineteenth Century" ; Chapter 2: "Transatlantic Modernism and the American Public Domain." ; Chapter 3: "Ezra Pound's Copyright Statute: Perpetual Rights and Unfair Competition with the Dead." ; Chapter 4: "James Joyce's Ulysses and American Copyright Protectionism." ; Chapter 5: "James Joyce v. Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company." ; Chapter 6: "The 1934 Random House Ulysses: Copyright and Trade Courtesy. ; Epilogue

Robert Spoo takes us into a pioneering, novel, fascinating and challenging historical journey in which he imbues new life into past copyright conflicts that were told from a very specific, and rather limited, perspectives. Spoo opens a new debate that some would argue was closed decades ago--a debate reminding them that authors do not create in a social vacuum, that authors are nurtured by society, other authors and their works, and that without these resources no person could reach the status of an 'author'...I am confident that readers of Spoo's tour-de-froce will agree that he has rigorously reminded us of the many flaws we tend to cherish, and of the long-needed rethinking process of the public domain in contmeporary copyright traditions.