Bate, Jonathan (2010) Fair enough? Myths and ambiguities in copyright law. TLS-The Times Literary Supplement (No.5601). pp. 14-15.

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Abstract

Bate details the strangest moment in his career as a literary researcher: the discovery that another scholar claimed the copyright of the poet on whom he was working. He argues that the writer in question was John Clare, the early nineteenth-century farm laborer who achieved brief fame under the sobriquet "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". Clare was bedevilled by ill luck. His publisher went bankrupt and there was a recession, destroying the market for poetry. Then his mental health collapsed and he spent the last twenty-four years of his life in a lunatic asylum. As a result, only about 20 percent of his poems were published in his lifetime. This was where the scholar Eric Robinson saw his opportunity. When he began work on an edition of Clare's complete poetry in the 1960s, the law of copyright dictated that copyright in unpublished works existed in perpetuity. Moreover, Bate identifies that fair dealing remains an equally neglected area in the historiography of copyright law.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	TLS-The Times Literary Supplement
Publisher:	Times Supplements Limited
ISSN:	0307-661X
Official Date:	6 August 2010
Dates:	Date Event 6 August 2010 Published
Number:	No.5601
Number of Pages:	2
Page Range:	pp. 14-15
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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