In American Women Authors and Literary Property, Melissa Homestead (building upon Meredith McGill's American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting) frames female authorship as one facet of the greater economic structure of the mid-century literary marketplace, legal dimensions of which privileged readers' claims to the usefulness of print materials over authors' proprietary claims to their works. Though she emphasizes how women authors imagined "the struggle and dispossession . . . not secure possession" of their works in print, the experiences of her female authors come to represent the kinds of struggles authors throughout the period faced, as law affected how authors conceived of their relationship to literary works (as products of imagination and as commodities), publishers (as ...
..., * * * copyrights, * * * and other like property,'2 and that, accordingly, each of these seems was ... serials, plays, short stories and other literary works published in the United States in the Saturd...
... show that he has legal authority to the literary property concerned. (b) The producer must show acc...
For a 123-year-old detective, Sherlock Holmes is a surprisingly reliable earner. Though readers were not always informed of his compensation for, say, uncovering the truth of the Red-Headed League or bringing the Hound of the Baskervilles to heel, Holmes remains a valuable literary property.
Questions on copyright are answered. First, copyright is no longer a backwater discipline relegated to the inspection of nerdy specialists. Instead, it is now central to the everyday activities of most American citizens. Second, many people often conflate copyright and "intellectual property." Third, some important theoretical and political considerations influence the definitions of copyright. Copyright is the right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. Copyright protects original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, according to the US Copyright Office. Though many people c...
Due process allows a state to exercise jurisdiction over a non- resident attorney sued for breaching his duties as a trustee, even though he claimed he mainly acted in his capacity as lawyer when he was in the state, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a dismissal. The defendant, a New York attorney, was hired by a Kentucky woman to draft an estate plan and trust agreement disposing of extensive literary property rights that she owned. The defendant became co- trustee of the resulting trust upon the execution of the trust agreement, and was the sole trustee after the woman's death.
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