Hollywood's Copyright Wars From Edison to the Internet

Name: Hollywood's Copyright Wars From Edison to the Internet
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ISBN: 9780231159470

ISBN-10: 0231159471

ISBN-13: 9780231159470

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Decherney

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Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties 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 copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.86" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


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


Index