| 1.1 | Edison’s Kinetographic Record of a Sneeze, aka Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894), the first film registered for copyright |
| 1.2 | Napolean Sarony’s photograph of Oscar Wilde, the subject of an 1884 Supreme Court case |
| 1.3 | “The Mother Elephant ‘Hebe’ and her Baby ‘Americus,’” the subject of an 1888 Supreme Court case |
| 1.4 | Siegmund Lubin, king of the film pirates |
| 1.5 | Advertising Lubin’s short-lived court victory over Edison |
| 1.6 | One of the posters considered in Bleistein v. Donaldson (1903) |
| 1.7 | Members of the Motion Picture Patents Company (c. 1908–1909) 36 |
| 1.8 | The Black Maria, Edison’s studio |
| 1.9 | Eugen Sandow the strong man, posing for Edison in the Black Maria (1894) |
| 1.10 | Loie Fuller performing the Serpentine Dance |
| 1.11 | The Harper Brothers |
| 2.1 | Loie Fuller’s dress frame patent |
| 2.2 | How a French Nobelman Got a Wife Through the New York Herald Personal Columns (1904) |
| 2.3 | “203 Charlie Chaplins”: A Chaplin lookalike contest |
| 2.4 | An advertisement for Chaplin imitator Billy West |
| 2.5 | Felix the Cat in Hollywood (1923): A parody of Chaplin |
| 2.6 | Charlie Chaplin in The Champion (1915) |
| 2.7 | Mexican actor and Chaplin imitator Charles Amador |
| 2.8 | Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) |
| 2.9 | Adam Sandler in The Waterboy (1998) |
| 2.10 | The “church scene” from When Tomorrow Comes (1939) |
| 2.11 | Judge Learned Hand |
| 2.12 | The Cohens and Kelleys in Atlantic City (1929) |
| 2.13 | Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton (1932) |
| 2.14 | Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) |
| 3.1 | Poster for Gene Autry’s Home on the Prairie (1939) |
| 3.2 | Shane (1953)—“mutilated” by TV editing? |
| 3.3 | Death of a Gunfighter (1969), the first film to carry the Allen Smithee credit |
| 3.4 | Screen shot from TV series Battlestar Galactica (1978–79) |
| 3.5 | Screen shot from Star Wars (1977) |
| 3.6 | Screen shot from Monty Python’s Flying Circus |
| 3.7 | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946): one of the early film classics to be colorized |
| 4.1 | Screen shot from Abraham Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy assassination |
| 4.2 | Screen shot from Bruce Conner’s assemblage film Report (1963–1967) |
| 4.3 | Screen shot from Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1964) |
| 4.4 | Screen shot from Hardware Wars (1977), a Star Wars spoof |
| 5.1 | Early copy protection: the Chained Library of Hereford Cathedral in England |
| 5.2 | The placement of sprocket holes in a typical Edison film |
| 5.3 | Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh computer (1984) |
| 6.1 | A member of the Free Culture student organization protesting copy protection on music and movies |