@article{27548,
      note = {Restricted admission to print.},
      author = {Spoo, Robert E., and Spoo, Robert E.,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27548},
      title = {Without copyrights : piracy, publishing, and the public  domain /},
      abstract = {Without Copyrights tells the story of how the clashes  between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates"  influenced both American copyright law and literature  itself. From its inception in 1790, American copyright law  offered no or less-than-perfect protection for works  published abroad-to the fury of Charles Dickens, among  others, who sometimes received no money from vast sales in  the United States. American publishers avoided ruinous  competition with each other through "courtesy of the  trade," a code of etiquette that gave informal, exclusive  rights to the first house to announce plans to issue an  uncopyrighted foreign work. The climate of trade courtesy,  lawful piracy, and the burdensome rules of American  copyright law profoundly affected transatlantic writers in  the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unknown legal  archives, Robert Spoo recounts efforts by James Joyce, Ezra  Pound, Bennett Cerf, the founder of Random House, and  others to crush piracy, reform U.S. copyright law, and  define the public domain.},
      recid = {27548},
      pages = {xvi, 355 pages :},
}