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Who invented Oscar Wilde? : the photograph at the center of modern American copyright /

In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony. Few would guess that one of those photographs would become the subject of the Supreme Court case that challeng...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newhoff, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : eidolons
  • Dangerous paradoxes
  • Copyright in a few snapshots
  • Stone drawing
  • The Mencken
  • The aesthetic sham
  • The "death of Chatterton" case
  • The girl (boy) on the tracks
  • "The apparatus can't mistake"
  • Who invented Oscar Wilde?
  • The wit of Macaulay v. Mickey Mouse
  • Monkeys and selfies and "monkey selfies"
  • Art is theft
  • Invasive species : when machines make art
  • Who's Inventing the Future?
  • Epilogue : Mirrors of Memory.