Reading poetry and its paratexts for evidence of fair dealing

Abstract

A close reading of Canadian poetry books’ citational paratexts — such as the copyright page, whose statements hold both intertextual information and legal consequence — argues that Canadian poetry publishers make extensive unauthorized use of copyrighted works, thus modelling fair dealing on a de facto basis, even while Canadian publishers and publishing lobbyists publicly clamour for fair dealing’s curtailment or withdrawal from statute.