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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.
Table des matières
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Theater of Copyright
1. Piracy and the Birth of Film
2. Hollywood's Golden Age of Plagiarism
3. Auteurism on Trial: Moral Rights and Films on Television
4. Hollywood's Guerrilla War: Fair Use and Home Video
5. Digital Hollywood: Too Much Control and Too Much Freedom
Conclusion: The Copyright Reform Movement
Notes
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Decherney is professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of
Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American.
Résumé
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.
