Without copyrights: piracy, publishing, and the public domain

Prologue: Growing the American public domain

The American public domain and the courtesy of the trade in the nineteenth century

Transatlantic modernism in the American public domain

Ezra Pound's copyright statute: perpetual rights and unfair competition with the dead

Ulysses unauthorized: protectionism, piracy, and protest

Joyce V. Roth: authors' names and Blue Valley Butter

Ulysses authorized: Random House and courtesy

Epilogue: Disturbing the American public domain.