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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newhoff, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Copyright > United States > Philosophy.
Copyright > Photographs > United States.
Copyright > Motion pictures > United States.
Droit d'auteur > Photographies > États-Unis.
Droit d'auteur > Cinéma > États-Unis.
Copyright > Motion pictures
Copyright > Photographs
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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