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Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
Peter Decherney
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Description for Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: APFR; LNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526. From Edison to the Internet. Series: Film and Culture Series. 304 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFR; LNTX. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 24. Weight: 526.
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 influence ... Read more
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 influence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231159463
SKU
V9780231159463
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About Peter Decherney
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.
Reviews for Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
Both scholarly and readable, this will be of interest to movie history buffs and those who deal with copyright issues. Library Journal A splendid new study of the legal, technological, and aesthetic wrangling over motion picture copyright wrongs and rights, particularly timely.
Thomas Doherty Moving Image Source Decherney's readable book provides a century of evidence about the complicated relationship ... Read more
Thomas Doherty Moving Image Source Decherney's readable book provides a century of evidence about the complicated relationship ... Read more