The copywrights

They borrow from published works without attribution. They remarke literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scisors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Coopyrights-Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, whose work wrestled with the intelectual property laws of their day. In a highly readable and thought-provoking book that places today´s copyright wars in historical context, Paul K.Saint-Amour asks: Would their art have survived the copyright laws of the new millennium?