Introduction: modernism and the lives of copyright / Paul K. Saint-Amour
Ezra Pound, legislator: perpetual copyright and unfair competition with the dead / Robert Spoo
Thinking back through copyright : individual rights and collective life in Virginia Woolf's nonfiction / Celia Marshik
Rhythm changes : contrafacts, copyright, and jazz modernism / Mark Osteen
Melody, theft, and high culture / Joanna Demers
Gag orders : comedy, Chaplin, and copyright / Peter Decherney
Marked by modernism : reconfiguring the "tradition contours of copyright protection" for the twenty-first century / W. Ron Gard and Elizabeth Townsend Gard
The modern author at work on Madison Avenue / Catherine L. Fisk
Modernism and the emergence of the right of publicity : from Hedda Gabler to Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon / Oliver Gerland
"The quick in pursuit of the dead" : Ian Hamilton and the clash between literary biographers and copyright owners / Mark A. Fowler
Privacy and the misuse of copyright : the case of Shloss v. the Estate of James Joyce / Carol Loeb Shloss
Beyond the grave : continuing life through great works / Stanford G. Gann Jr.
Mens sine affectu / Mary de Rachewiltz
"It's good to be primitive" : African allusion and the modernist fetish of authenticity / Joseph R. Slaughter
Solomon's bluff : virtual property and the aesthetics of modern worldmaking / Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp.