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  • Chapter 15 - Copyright

  • from Part III - Culture and Politics
  • Edited by Mark Byron, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    The New Ezra Pound Studies
    Published online:
    17 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019, pp 241-256

  • 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.