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Hollywood's copyright wars : from Edison to the Internet / Peter Decherney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decherney, Peter.
- Series:
- Film and culture.
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright--Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Copyright.
- Copyright--Broadcasting rights--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the vatieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers and sceenwriters to amateur video makers, file sharers, and internet entrepreneurs has a stake in the history and future of piracy, copy protection, and the public domain.Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive patent and copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits aga
- Contents:
- Introduction : the theater of copyright
- Piracy and the birth of film
- Hollywood's golden age of plagiarism
- Auteurism on trial : moral rights and films on television
- Hollywood's guerrilla war: fair use and home video
- Digital Hollywood: too much control and too much freedom
- Conclusion: the copyright reform movement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231501460
- 0231501463
- OCLC:
- 817570746
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