Who invented Oscar Wilde? : the photograph at the center of modern American copyright / David Newhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newhoff, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright--United States--Philosophy.

Copyright.

Copyright--Photographs--United States.

Copyright--Motion pictures--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, [2020]

Summary:

AAP PROSE Award, Finalist in Media and Culture Studies 2021 In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. Dangerous Paradoxes

2. Copyright in a Few Snapshots

3. Stone Drawing

4. The Mencken

5. The Aesthetic Sham

6. The "Death of Chatterton" Case

7. The Girl (Boy) on the Tracks

8. The Apparatus Can't Mistake

9. Who Invented Oscar Wilde?

10. The Wit of Macaulay v. Mickey Mouse

11. Monkeys and Selfies and "Monkey Selfies"

12. Art Is Theft

13. Invasive Species

14. Who's Inventing the Future?

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-266) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64012-388-1

OCLC:

1196171763