Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Chapter 11 The Transnational Turn
- Chapter 12 Pound, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 13 Italian Fascism
- Chapter 14 Late Cantos, ‘Aesopian Language’, States’ Rights and John Randolph of Roanoke
- Chapter 15 Copyright
- Chapter 16 The Temple and the Scaffolding
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Copyright
from Part III - Culture and Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019
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Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Chapter 11 The Transnational Turn
- Chapter 12 Pound, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 13 Italian Fascism
- Chapter 14 Late Cantos, ‘Aesopian Language’, States’ Rights and John Randolph of Roanoke
- Chapter 15 Copyright
- Chapter 16 The Temple and the Scaffolding
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
When Ezra Pound launched his writing career in London in 1908, English copyright was governed by an Act of 1844, which required registration of works at Stationers’ Hall in order for copyright to be secured. The Act was soon replaced, however, by the Imperial Copyright Act of 1911, under which copyright protection was extended to works upon creation without the need for registration. Notable among the changes effected by the Act of 1911 was the extension of the term of copyright to life plus fifty years (subject to certain exceptions). Previously, the law fixed the term of copyright at either forty-two years from first publication or the life of the author plus seven years, whichever proved the longer. Two provisions allowed for compulsory licenses as a limitation on copyright.
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