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Informationen zum Autor Peter Decherney is associate professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. Klappentext 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 against YouTube and Universal! Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film! television! and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Zusammenfassung 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 influence and adapt to copyright law. Though much of Hollywood's engagement with the law occurs offstage! in the larger theater of copyright! many of Hollywood's most valued treasures! from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977)! cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law and recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Theater of Copyright1. Piracy and the Birth of Film2. Hollywood's Golden Age of Plagiarism3. Auteurism on Trial: Moral Rights and Films on Television4. Hollywood's Guerrilla War: Fair Use and Home Video5. Digital Hollywood: Too Much Control and Too Much FreedomConclusion: The Copyright Reform MovementNotesIndex ...
