| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Film and culture
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Film and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. 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. Many landmark decisions have barely changed the industry's behavior, while some quieter policies have had revolutionary effects. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Copyright -- Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Copyright -- Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Copyright -- Broadcasting rights -- United States -- History.
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Copyright -- Broadcasting rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Decherney, Peter. Hollywood's copyright wars. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231159463 (DLC) 2011041745 (OCoLC)756045736 |
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Print version: Decherney, Peter. Hollywood's copyright wars. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011041745 |
| ISBN |
9780231501460 (electronic book) |
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0231501463 (electronic book) |
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9780231159463 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231159463 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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