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12 Angry Men (1957), 178
1932 Code of Practice, 89
1968 Democratic National Convention, 166
2 Live Crew, 184–85
24 Hour Psycho (1993), 189
A&M Records, 190–91
Abel, Richard, 34
Abie’s Irish Rose (1922), 92; Nichols v. Universal, 104
Ace in the Hole, aka The Big Carnival (1951), 99
actualities, 27
adaptation, 12, 36, 42–45, 47–51, 55–56, 58, 84, 86, 91, 95, 139
Adobe Flash Player, 224
Adorno, Theodor, 68
Adrian, Gilbert, 94
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, 103
The Adventures of Sam Spade, 103
Alfred A. Knopf, 103–104
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), 188
Altman, Robert, 129
Amador, Charles, aka “Charlie Aplin,” 72, 74–75, 102, 108
American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 103, 125, 170–71, 179; dispute with Monty Python, 137–43
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 234
American Graffiti (1973), 132
American Library Association, 240
American Mutoscope & Biograph, 19–21, 28–29, 33, 35, 37, 55, 80, 204; Biograph v. Edison, 62–67, 84
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), 88
American Writers Association, 89
American Zoetrope, 123
Anatomy of a Murder (1959), 125
Anger, Kenneth, 187–90
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 123
Apocalypse Now (1979), 123
Apple, Inc., 173, 205, 214–21; Macintosh computer, 215–17; Steve Jobs and, 173, 215, 217–20
Arnheim, Rudolph, 67
Artists and Models (1937), 106
The Asphalt Jungle (1950), 150
AT&T, 206
Au Telephone, 66
Audio Home Recording Act (1992), 209
Aufderheide, Patricia, 199, 225
auteurs/auteurism, 8, 110–11, 123–24, 126, 128; New Hollywood auteurs, 129–30, 133–37, 143–45, 149
authorship, 6–7, 15, 75, 82, 101, 111, 133, 136, 139, 143, 150, 235; theory of, 89–90, 110; work for hire, 112
Autry, Gene, 119–22; Autry v. Republic Prods., Inc., 120, 124–25, 128, 139
avant-garde, 185, 190, 192; artists, 182, 188–89, 196, 225; film, 185–86, 188, 190–91; found footage, 185
Azlant, Edward, 56
Backtrack (1990), 129
The Bad Seed (1956), 127
Baker, Senator Howard, 166
Ballet mécanique (1924), 70
Balshofer, Fred, 34
Balzac, Honoré de, 102
Band, Jonathan, 213
Barlow, John Perry, 227
Barney & Friends, 229
Batman Dracula (1964, unfinished), 186
Battlestar Galactica (TV series, 1978–79), 131–33, 135, 148
Bayh, Birch, 176
Beauty and the Beast (TV series, 1991), 171
Beban, George, 73
Behind the Door (1974), 134–35
Behind the Door II (1977), 134
Beister, Edward, 160
Bell, Howard, 127
Belton, John, 149
Ben Hur, 47, 49–50, 52; on Broadway, 49, 54; Kalem v. Harper Brothers, 37–38, 45, 53, 55–58, 87, 107, 173; film, 45–47, 51; novel, 37, 45–46, 48
Benjamin, Walter, 68
Bergman, Ingrid, 105–107
Berlin, Irving, 158
Bernbach, Doyle Dane (advertising agency), 170
Berne Convention, 44–45, 54, 113, 144, 146–48, 150
Betamax (Sony), 140, 160–62, 166–67, 169–70, 172, 206, 208, 233
Biograph. See American Mutoscope & Biograph
Birnbaum, Dara, 188
The Black Crook, 41; Martinetti v. Maguire, 42
Black Hole (1979), 131
Black Maria, 38
Blackmun, Justice Harry, 159, 178
Blaustein, Julian, 100
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographic Company (1903), 30, 32, 52, 54
Blockbuster Video, 181
Blonde Venus (1932), 77
Blow-up (1966), 123
Bogart, Humphrey, 103
Bogdanovich, Peter, 123
Bolles v. Outing (1899), 25
Bone, Judge Homer T., 120–22, 125–26
Bordwell, David, 19
Bosworth Company, 55
Boucher, Rick, 211
Boyle, James, 198
Brady, Matthew, 14
Brady, William A., 43
Brandeis, Louis, 60
Brenan, Justice William, 227
Brest, Martin, 129
Breyer, Stephen, 159–60
British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 137–38, 141, 143
Brooker, Will, 195
Bruzzone, Donald, 167–68
Buchwald, Art, 100
Buck Rogers, 130
Buffington, Judge Joseph, 30–32, 34, 57
Burkan, Nathan, 71–75
Burrows-Giles Lithographic Company v. Sarony (1884), 15, 17–18, 24–25, 41
Burton, Richard, 100
Bush, George W., 237
Business Software Alliance, 156
Cahiers du cinéma, 123
Cain, James M., 7, 84–90, 97; James M. Cain v. Universal Pictures Co., 86–87
Carlyle Productions, 124–25
Carol Burnett Show, 107
Carpenter, Richard, 189–91
Carr, Harry, 81
Carson, Johnny, 228–29
Carter, Judge James Marshall, 106–107, 182
Casablanca (1942), 103
Cawelti, John, 130
Center for Social Media, 241
The Champion (1915), 71
Chaplin, Charlie, 7, 67–77, 92, 102, 104, 105, 108; Chaplin v. Amador, 75–76; co-founder United Artists, 109; influence on avant-garde, 70; Little Tramp character, 70–72, 74, 76; as Romantic genius, 67–68, 74–75, 77
character copyright, 74, 76, 104–105, 185
Charles, Ray, 187
Cheyenne (1947), 103
Chinatown (1974), 130
Choy, Christine, 186
Christening and Launching Kaiser Wilhelm’s Yacht Meteor (1902), 23, 27, 30, 34–35
Christian Broadcasting Network, 230
Church of Scientology, 221–22, 228
Churchill, Winston, 74
cinema of attractions, 38, 40, 42
CinemaScope, 170
Clinton, Bill, 209
The Cohens and the Kellys (1926), 92
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 103, 161, 166, 170, 179, 226, 234; Electronic Video Recorder (EVR), 161–62, 230
Columbia Pictures, 124–25, 182
Coming to America (1988), 100
Communications Decency Act of 1996, 222
Congress (U.S.), 2, 7–8, 18, 27, 30, 41, 43–45, 47, 48, 54, 56, 58, 110, 113–15, 146–50, 153, 155–57, 159–61, 163, 166, 174–77, 181, 202, 209, 212, 221–22, 237, 240, 242
Cooper, Drury, 63
Coppa, Francesca, 192
Coppola, Francis Ford, 123, 130; American Zoetrope, 123
copy protection, 179–80, 201–211, 218, 220
Copyright Act (1909), 30, 43–45, 47, 54, 56, 58
Copyright Act (1976), 48, 112, 159, 161, 163, 165–66, 175
Copyright Office, 13, 19, 23–24, 27, 37, 112, 146, 149, 212–14, 240
Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), 236–39
Cosgrave, Judge George, 79–80
Courtney, Minerva, 68
Craven, Wes, 151
Crawford, Joan, 94
Creative Commons, 241
Crowther, Bosley, 85
Curwood, James Oliver, 109
da Vinci, Leonardo: Mona Lisa, 185
Daily Show (TV program), 225, 234
Dallas, Judge George Mifflin, 24, 26–31
Daly, Augustin, 66
Dastar v. Twentieth Century-Fox (2003), 143
David, Owen, 78
A Day at the Races (1937), 77, 98
Day of the Animals (1977), 134
Deady, Judge, 41–42
Dean, Howard, 237
Death of a Gunfighter (1969), 128
Delli Carpini, Michael X., 212
Desny v. Wilder, 99–100
Dick, Kirby, 199
Dickson, W. K. L., 21
Dietrich, Marlene, 77
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 9, 200, 202, 212, 214–15, 221–22, 223, 224, 227–33, 235, 236, 237, 240; anticircumvention provisions, 210–11, 214, 218, 219; safe harbor provision, 223–24, 228, 231, 232; success of Apple Inc., 220
Digital Future Coalition, 237
Dill, Clarence, 114
Directors Guild of America, 128, 146–49, 152
Dishonored Lady (1930), 94–95
Disney, Walt, 68
documentary film, 182, 196, 198–200, 213–14
Don’t Look Back (1967), 197
Double Indemnity (1944), 88
Duchamp, Marcel, 185
Duffy, Senator F. Ryan, 115
Dumas, Alexandre, 103
Dune (1984), 129
Dunne, Irene, 85
dupes/duping, 12, 19–20, 24, 26–29, 32–35, 58, 62–63
DVD, 151, 162, 201–202, 203, 205, 206, 209–211, 212–13; Content Scrambling System (CSS), 201, 210–11
DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA), 210, 213
Dykstra, John, 131
E.T. (1982), 180
Easy Rider (1969), 123
Eckhardt, Joseph, 21
Éclair Company, 55
Edison, Thomas, 2, 6, 12–13, 19–20, 21–28, 30–35, 38, 41, 42–44, 55, 62, 64–66, 77, 102, 104, 181, 203–205, 210, 220–21, 234; dispute with Lubin, 21–35; patents, 21–23; Trust, 5, 7, 22, 34, 45, 47, 55
Edison Manufacturing Company, 5, 13, 19–29, 32–34, 37, 44, 64, 215; Black Maria, 38; registering films as photograph, 13, 32
Edison v. Lubin (1903), 18, 26–27, 30, 34–35, 37, 44, 50, 56–58, 62
Eldred v. Ashcroft, 238–39
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 6, 156, 212, 227, 229–31, 234, 237, 241
Electronic Video Recorder (EVR), 161–62, 230
Eliot, T. S., 70
Ellison, Harlan, 232
“Emancipation of Rodney,” 78–79, 82
EMI, 219
Encyclopedia Britannica v. Crooks, 167
end user license agreement (EULAs), 195
Erlanger, A. L., 45
errors and omissions insurance (E&O), 197–98
ESPN, 168–69, 174; SportsCenter, 168
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 71
The Exorcist (1973), 130, 134; Warner Bros. Inc. v. Film Venture International, 135
Faden, Eric, 157
fair use, 48–49, 143, 152–53, 155–69, 173–74, 176, 178, 182, 184, 200, 211, 213–14, 223–26, 229, 231, 234, 241; avant-garde and, 186–90; documentary film and, 196–99
Fairbanks, Douglas, 8, 108–109, 112–13, 119, 154; Fairbanks v. Winik, 108–110
Fairey, Shepard, 191
Family Move Act, 153
Fantasia (1940), 171
Faulkner, William, 96
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 179
Federal Communication Commission (FCC), 238; Financial Interest and Syndication (Fin-Syn), 170
Felix the Cat, 69
Ferguson, Judge Warren J., 172–75, 207–208
Film Culture, 124
The Film Integrity Act of 1987, 148 Film Ventures International (FVI), 134–36
First Amendment, 1, 58, 100, 107, 122
first-sale doctrine, 177, 180–81
Flash Gordon, 130
Flickr, 223
Foley, Thomas, 149
Fonda, Henry, 178
Fong, Kandy, 192–93
Ford, Gerald, 161
Fosselius, Ernie, 194
Fox v. Universal, 133
Frank, Barney, 223
Frankfurt School, 68
Free Press, 238–39
French New Wave, 123
The Freshman (1925), 77–82
Friedkin, William, 123, 129–30, 133–35
From Here to Eternity (1953), 105–106, 182–83
From Spikes to Spindles (1974), 187
Fuller, Loie, 41–42, 61–62, 80; Serpentine Dance, 41–42, 62, 80
Further Off the Straight and Narrow (2006), 197
Gaines, Jane, 19
Gauntier, Gene, 45
Geller, Uri, 228–29
genre, 7, 38, 59, 60, 64, 76, 84, 87, 102, 107, 130, 134–36; chase film, 64; conventions, 134–35; exploitation, 34; homage, 130; horror, 134; parody, 106; science fiction, 130–34, 192
Gephardt, Richard, 148
Gibson, Mel, 151
Gilmore, John, 227
Gilmore, William, 33
Ginsburg, Jane, 111
Godard, Jean-Luc, 123
Goettel, Judge Gerard, 183
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), 127
Goldmark, Peter, 161
The Gold Rush (1925), 77
Gomery, Douglas, 206
Google, 220, 224, 226, 228, 232–33
Gordon, Douglas, 189
Gore, Al, 209
Gortikov, Stanley, 209
graphical user interface (GUI), 216–17
The Great Train Robbery, 34
Greene, Graham, 74
Griffin, Russell M., 192
Grizzly (1976), 134
Grouper (video-sharing site), 225, 232
The Guardian (1990), 129
Gunning, Tom, 66
Gypsy (1962), 127
Gypsy in My Soul (1976), 143
Haber, Joyce, 124
Hal Roach Studios, 144–45
Hammett, Dashiell, 103–104
Hand, Judge Learned, 76, 90–92, 94–95, 97, 98, 104
Hardware Wars (1977), 192, 194, 196
Harper and Brothers, 45–46, 48–51, 54
Harrison, Judge Benjamin, 120
Harry Potter series, 36
Hawks, Howard, 123
Haynes, Todd, 189–91
Hays, Will, 94
Heard Over the Phone (1908), 66
Hegedus, Chris, 197–98
Hertzberg, Hendrik, 141
Hilderbrand, Lucas, 166
Hill, Judge Irving, 133
Hitchcock, Alfred, 189
Hogan’s Heroes (TV series, 1965–1971), 104–105
Hollywood Ten, 115–16
Hollywood, 3, 4, 8, 36, 59–61, 67–68, 76, 82, 84, 87, 92, 94–97, 101, 105–108, 116–18, 120, 124, 127–28, 133, 143, 148, 151–53, 157, 163–64, 170–71, 176–79, 181–82, 192, 201, 205–206, 209, 214, 222, 225, 231, 233, 235; blacklist, 116; New Hollywood, 130, 133–34, 136–37, 143–45, 149; self-regulation, 2; studio system, 8, 9, 59, 61, 74, 98, 109–110, 123, 128; studios, 1, 37, 67, 89, 96, 98, 102–103, 115, 118, 122–23, 134, 137, 144, 151–52, 170, 174–75, 177–79, 182, 185, 191, 202, 206, 208, 210–11, 214, 222, 232, 236, 237, 241; treatment of writers, 86–89, 115; and television, 101–105, 118–19, 120, 122, 124, 127
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr., 30, 32, 37, 52–55, 57–58, 174; The Common Law, 52
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr., 15
home video, 6, 8, 144, 151–52, 155, 157, 161–62, 168, 171–72, 174–75, 177, 180, 210; DVD, 151, 162, 201–206, 209–211, 212–16; rentals, 174, 177, 180–81, 208; sales, 180; VHS, 172, 177, 206–207, 213. See also Video Cassette Recorder
Hoover, Herbert, 114
Hoover, J. Edgar, 96
Hopper, Dennis, 129
horror film, 134
House Committee on Un-American Activities, 116
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the New York Personal Columns, 64
Hoyt, Eric, 100
Hudner, Judge John, 74
Huston, John, 150
I Am Curious Yellow (1969), 123
idea/expression dichotomy 60, 66, 81, 90, 97
idea protection, 99–100
In Living Color, 107
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), 146
Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), 131
intellectual property, 2–4, 6, 19, 53, 86, 101, 133, 168, 217, 223, 234–35, 241; extension of body, 121–22
internet, 4, 6, 122, 202, 211, 219, 221, 224–25, 227, 232, 236, 240; file sharing, 58, 233
iPad, 218–20
Iron Curtain (1948), 116–17
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), 144–45
iTunes, 20, 205, 214, 218–19, 226
Jack and the Beanstalk, 28–29, 34
The Jack Benny Program (TV series, 1950–1965), 105, 182
Jaszi, Peter, 60, 150, 198–99, 225, 237
Jaws (1975), 2, 130, 134–36; Universal v. Film Venture International, 135
Jaws 2 (1978), 134
Jaws 3-D (1983), 135
Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, 55
Jhally, Sut, 197–98
Johnson, Steve, 220
Joyce, James, 70
Kalem Company, 41, 45–52, 54, 56
Kalem v. Harper Brothers, 37–38, 45, 53, 55–58, 87, 107, 173
Kaplan, Benjamin, 160–61
Kapor, Mitch, 227
Karandash, 69
Karim, Jawed, 233
Karno’s Speechless Comedians, 67
Kaustenmeier, Robert, 164
Keaton, Buster, 67
Kennedy, John F., 158
Keystone Studios, 68
Kinetograph/Kinetoscope, 21, 42
King of Kings (1927), 77
King’s Row (1942), 103
Klaw & Erlanger, 45–46, 48–49, 51, 54–55
Klein, Justice Arthur, 125
Klein, Naomi, 190
Koch, Justice Edward R., 117
Koons, Jeff, 191
Kracauer, Siegfried, 68
Lacombe, Judge Emile, 41–42, 80
Land, Chris, 73
Landy, Marcia, 138
Lang, Fritz, 123
Lanham Act (1946), 142
Larson, Glen, 131
Larson, John Howard, 115–16, 146
Lasker, Judge Morris, 139–42
Lasky, Jesse, 56
Lean, David, 95
Lederberg, Dov, 186
Léger, Fernand, 70
Lehman, Bruce A., 202
Lenz, Stephanie, 230–231
LeRoy, Mervyn, 127
Lessig, Lawrence, 5, 200, 238–39
Letty Lynton, 94; Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures, 94–98; film (1932), 94–95; novel (1931), 94
Leval, Judge Pierre, 184
Lewis, Wyndham, 70
Library of Congress, 23–24, 166, 212. See also Copyright Office
Life of an American Fireman, 34
The Life of Brian, 143
Little Caesar (1931), 127
The Little Mermaid (1989), 171
Lloyd v. Witwer, 77, 80–81, 84
Lloyd, Harold, 7, 70, 76–84, 90, 92, 96–97, 105
Lloyd, Susan, 84
Locke, John, 121; Lockean Property Theory, 121–22, 126, 139
London, Jack, 55
The Lonely Villa (1909), 66
Love Affair (1939), 85–86
Lubin, Siegmund, 21–24, 26–28, 30, 32–35, 43, 53, 64, 181
Lucas, George, 4, 8, 123, 130–33, 136, 145–48, 150, 192–96; dispute over Battlestar Galatica, 131–33; moral rights, 145–48; fan vidding 192–96; LucasFilm, 4, 193–94, 196
L’ultimo squalo (1981, aka, Great White, aka The Last Jaws), 134–36
Lumbard, Judge Joseph, 142
Lumière Brothers, 204; projector, 20
Lynch, David, 129
Macdonald, Dwight, 74
MacDonald, Scott, 187
MacLaine, Shirley, 143
Macrovision, 179–80, 207–208, 210–11
MAD Magazine, 158
Maddow, Ben, 150
Madeline (1950), 95
magic lantern, 25
Majestic Film Company, 108–109, 112
The Maltese Falcon: novel, 103–104; Warner Bros. Pictures v. CBS, 104
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), 124
Mann, Anthony, 185
Manovich, Lev, 221
Marley, Bob, 187
The Matrix, 225
Matsch, Judge Richard P., 153–54
Matsushita, 172
Mattel, 190
MCA, 162, 170–75, 180; DiscoVision, 162, 171
McCain, John, 230
McChesney, Robert, 238–39
McDowell, Roddy, 179
McLuhan, Marshall, 118
McSherry, Corynne, 231
Mean Streets (1973), 188
Media Access Project, 238
Media Education Foundation (MEF), 197–98
Meet Joe Black (1998), 129
Méliès, Gaston, 27
Messmer, Otto, 69
MGM, 94, 98, 103, 106, 144, 146, 182, 206
The Mickey Mouse Club, 171, 173
Microsoft, 207, 210, 215–18, 220, 23; Windows, 216, 218
Mildred Pierce (1945), 88
Miller Brewing Company, 167–68
Milton, Joyce, 72
Minimum Basic Agreement, 88, 100
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (TV program), 178
Modern Times (1936), 2
Montgomery, Robert, 94
Montoro, Edward, 134–35
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python, 137–43, 225; Gilliam v. ABC, 137–43, 152
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV program), 137–38, 140–41, 143
The Moon Is Blue (1953), 124
moral rights, 110–18, 121–22, 124–25, 127–30, 136–37, 139–42, 144, 146–48, 150–54
Morris, Harry, 73
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 144, 148, 152, 153, 156, 162, 163–64, 174, 175–77, 179, 180, 194, 199, 210, 213, 231, 235, 241; home video, 175–77
Motion Picture Exhibitors League, 75
Motion Picture Patents Company, 13, 35–37, 44, 47, 56, 181
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 3
Movie Crazy (1932), 97
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), 77
Mrazek, Robert, 149
Mrazek-Yates Amendment, 149
Murphy, Eddie, 100
Mutual Film Corporation, 73, 90–92
Mutual v. Ohio, 57
MySpace, 225
Napster, 9, 207, 211, 233, 238
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), 126
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 170, 226, 230
National Endowment for the Arts, 147
National Film Preservation Act (1988), 148–49, 153
National Film Preservation Board, 148–49
National Film Registry, 148 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 96
A Narrow Escape (1908), 66
Nelson, Ricky, 187–88
The Nervous Wreck (1923), 78
Netscape, 218
New Hollywood, 130, 133–34, 136–37, 143–45, 149
Newman, Alfred, 116–17
Nichols, Anne, 92
Nichols, John, 238
nickelodeons, 175
A Night at the Opera (1935), 98
A Nightmare on Elm Street, 105
Nimmer, Melville, 175
O. Henry, 55
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 60
O’Reilly, Tim, 221
Obama, Barack, 230
Ochs, Lee, 75
Off-Air Taping Guidelines, 164–65
Orbison, Roy, 184
Organization for Transformative Works, 241
Ott, Fred (Fred Ott’s sneeze), 13, 23, 32
The Outlaw (1943), 144
Paik, Nam June, 188
Palin, Michael, 139–41
paper prints, 13
Paramount Decision (1948), 123
Paramount, 55, 100, 104–105, 131, 181, 193, 206; Director’s Company, 123
Parker, Trey, 143
parody, 2, 48, 70, 105–107, 143, 182–83, 194, 196, 200, 225, 234
The Passion of the Christ (2005), 151
Patterson, Frances Taylor, 56
Pazen, Joseph, 72–73
Pennebaker, D. A., 197
Personal (1904), 62–67
Photoplay Author’s League, 87–88
Picasso, Pablo, 185
Pickford, Mary, 109
The Pilgrim (1923), 70
piracy, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 20, 27, 32, 34, 58, 60, 143, 174, 179, 181, 194, 205, 210, 219, 220
A Place in the Sun (1951), 125
plagiarism, 60, 77–79, 84, 92, 96–97, 98; unintentional, 80–81
Planet of the Apes, 179
Playboy Magazine, 221–22
Polaroid, 179
politique des auteur, 123–24. See also auteurs/auteurism
The Postman Always Rings Twice: film (1946), 88; novel, 84, 88
The Power and the Glory (1933), 87
Preminger, Otto, 8, 124–25, 127; Preminger v. Columbia Pictures, 125–28, 138–39
Presley, Elvis, 187–88
Preston, Judge H. L., 75
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships, 198
Price, Byron, 89
Prince, 231
Prince, Richard, 191
Prince, Stephen, 178
Prodigy, 221–22
Production Code Administration, 3, 88, 94
Project for Information Justice and Intellectual Property, 241
Protazanov, Yakov, 66
Psycho (1960), 189
public domain, 3, 4, 56, 70, 82, 91, 94, 103, 111–12, 117, 145–46
Public Knowledge, 240–41
Quicktime, 221
Quo Vadis (1951), 127
The Race Track, 74
Randi, James, 228–29
Reagan, Nancy, 145
Reagan, Ronald, 148
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 156, 208–209
Reiner, Rob, 151
Report (1963–1967), 186
Republic Studios, 119–22
Return to Hoth (1981), 192–93
Revue Productions, 170–71
Road to Glory (1937), 96
Rodenberry, Gene, 193
Rogers, Roy, 119–22, 124; Republic v. Roy Rogers, 120, 122, 128, 139
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 114
Roosevelt, Theodore, 23
Rose Hobart (1936), 185
Rosen, Jeffrey, 52
The Roy Rogers Show, 199
Safety Last (1923), 78
Sandler, Adam, 84
Sandow, Eugene, 38
Sapient, Brian, 229
Sarony, Napoleon, 15
Scent of a Woman (1992), 129
Schary, Dore, 98
Schein, Harvey, 170
Schindler’s List (1993), 151
Schwartz, Eric, 149
Scorpio Rising (1964), 187–89
Scorsese, Martin, 188
Screen Gems, 125
Screen Writers Guild, 88–89, 95–96, 98, 115. See also Writers Guild of America
Sculley, John, 217
The Searchers (1956), 130
Sega, 221–22
Segrave, Kerry, 40
Selig Company, 23
Seltzer, Wendy, 227
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 114
Sennett, Mack, 67–68
Serpentine Dance, 41–42, 62; Fuller v. Bemis, 42, 62
The Seven Chances (1925), 66
Shales, Tom, 131
Shane (1953), 125
Sheets, Robert, 96
Sheffner, Ben, 231
Sheinberg, Sidney, 170–71
Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures, 94–98
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 55
Shoulder Arms (1918), 72
Silent Running (1972), 133
Silver, Josh, 238
The Simpsons (TV series), 196, 199, 225
Sirk, Douglas, 85
Smith, Harry, 186
Smith, Madeline, 94–95
Smithee, Allen (pseudonym), 128–29
Snow White (1937), 171
So’s Your Uncle (1943), 97
Soderbergh, Steven, 152
Solberg, Thorvald, 24, 34–35, 44, 114
Something to Live For (1952), 125
Sony v. Universal (1984), 169–75, 178–79
Sony, 140, 160, 171–72, 176, 207–208, 225, 234; Betamax, 140, 160–62, 166–67, 169–70, 172, 206, 208, 233; U-Matic, 160
Soupault, Philippe, 68
Souter, Justice Donald, 184
South Park (TV series), 143, 225
Spielberg, Steven, 130, 133–36, 145–48, 150–52
Stalag 17 (1953), 104
Stam, Robert, 147
Stanwyck, Barbara, 106
Star Trek (TV series), 192–93
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1978), 131
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), 180
Star Wars (1977), 130–34, 192–96; franchise, 4; characters, 105; compared to Battlestar Galactica, 135, 148; fans, 194–96
Startup.com (2001), 197
State Censor boards, 58
Stein, Gertrude, 70
Stephens, Judge Albert, 104
Stevens, George, 124–25, 127; Stevens v. NBC, 126–28, 138–39
Stevens, Justice John Paul, 178
Stewart, Rosella, 99
Stone, Matt, 143
Story, Judge Joseph, 12
The Strength of Donald MacKenzie (1916), 91
Stumpf, Richard J., 207
Sturges, Preston, 87
Sugarland Express (1974), 147
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), 189–91
Supreme Court of California, 99–100
Supreme Court of New York, 109, 117, 125
Supreme Court of the United States, 15, 17, 26, 32–33, 50, 52, 57, 95, 142–43, 159, 170, 172, 174, 178, 238
Swisher, Kara, 149
The Taming of the Shrew (1967), 100
Tarzan and Jane Regained Sort Of (1964), 186
Taylor, Elizabeth, 100
Technology/Transformation (1976), 188
television, 102, 118, 124, 138, 140–41, 225; advertising, 162; American network, 138, 140–41; audience, 170; British public, 141; film broadcast rights, 118–20, 122, 127–28; home video, 161, 164–65; industry, 101–102, 139, 162, 166, 232; PBS, 137; relation to Hollywood, 101–105, 118–19, 144, 154, 170; syndication, 137
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006), 199
Thornton v. Schreiber, 17
Thurmond, Sen. Strom, 176
THX1138 (1971), 123
Time-Warner, 213
Tivo, 169
To Be or Not to Be (1942), 106
Topper (1937), 144–45
Townsend, Edward, 54
Townsend Amendment (1912), 13, 54
Trade-Mark Cases (1879), 15, 17
Triangle Film Corporation, 105, 112, 154
Trilogy Studios, 151–52 A Trip to the Moon (1902), 19, 27
Truffaut, François, 123
Trumbull, Douglas, 133
Tur, Robert, 232
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), 150
Turner Entertainment, 150
Twentieth Century-Fox, 96, 116–17, 132–33, 175, 194, 221, 234
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1903), 43
Universal v. Lloyd, 97
Universal, 55, 84, 86, 89, 92, 96, 123, 132–33, 135, 148, 172, 176, 178–79, 231; MCA/Universal, 132, 177, 206; Music Group, 229–31
Vaidhyanathan, Siva, 90, 133, 229, 238
Valenti, Jack, 144, 149, 152, 162, 174–76
Vanderbilt Television News Archive, 166
vaudeville, 40, 42, 53, 68, 72, 75–76; copyright, 61–62, 67; Chaplin, 67
Vestal Bill, 114–15
Viacom, 181, 193, 225–26, 229, 231–33
Video Cassette Recorder (VCR), 3, 4, 8, 12, 58, 156, 160–62, 164, 166, 169–79, 182, 201, 207–208, 212
Video Software Dealers Association, 181
Visconti, Luchino, 88
Visual Artists Rights Act, 113, 148
von Sternberg, Josef, 77
Wallace, General Lew, 45–47, 49
Wallace, Henry, 46
Walt Disney Company, 4, 84, 103–104, 131, 157, 171–78, 213, 234, 239
Wanger, Walter, 84
Warner Bros., 4, 103–104, 123, 135, 206, 239;
Warner Brothers Presents, 103;
Warner Home Video, 201;
Warner Music Group, 234
Warren, Judge Earl, 173–74
The Waterboy (1998), 84
Watson, Billy, 73
Waxman, Henry, 209
Way Out West (1937), 144
Wellman, William, 116
Western Electric, 206
Wheaton v. Peters (1834), 111
When Tomorrow Comes (1939), 85–86, 89
White-Smith v. Apollo (1908), 30, 52–53
Wide World of Entertainment, 137
Wiese, Michael, 194
Wikipedia, 223
Wilbur, Judge Curtis, 81–82
Williams, John, 136
Wilson, Edmund, 74
Wilson, Heather, 230
Wizard of Oz (1939), 127
Wonder Woman (1975), 188
The Woodsman (1911), 90
Woolsey, John, 90
work for hire, 112
World Trade Organization, 9, 237
Writers Guild of America, 88, 100–101. See also Screen Writers Guild
Xerox, 216
Yankwich, Judge Leon, 86–89, 92, 97
Yates, Sidney, 149
YouTube, 2, 6, 9, 143, 156, 191, 223–26, 228–34, 236
Your Show of Shows (TV series, 1950–1954), 105, 182
Zapruder, Abraham, 158; Zapruder film, 158, 168, 186
Zeffirelli, Franco, 100
Zhdanov, Andrei, 117
Zobel, Judge Rya, 168
Zukor, Adolf, 5