@article{27078,
      note = {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.},
      author = {Decherney, Peter,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27078},
      title = {Hollywood's copyright wars : from Edison to the internet  /},
      abstract = {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 screenwriters 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, this book 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. The author 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. This  history recounts these extralegal solutions and their  impact on American media and culture. -- Publisher  description.},
      recid = {27078},
      pages = {xii, 287 pages :},
}