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Hollywood's Copyright Wars - From Edison to the Internet (Paperback)
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Hollywood's Copyright Wars - From Edison to the Internet (Paperback)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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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 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. His
most remarkable contributions uncover Hollywood's reliance on
self-regulation. Rather than involve congress, judges, or juries in
settling copyright disputes, studio heads and filmmakers have often
kept such arguments "in house," turning to talent guilds and other
groups for solutions. Whether the issue has been battling piracy in
the 1900s, controlling the threat of home video, or managing modern
amateur and noncommercial uses of protected content, much of
Hollywood's engagement with the law has occurred offstage, in the
larger theater of copyright. Decherney's unique history recounts
these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and
culture.
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