Circulation and Control : : Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century.

• Author: Delamaire, Marie-Stéphanie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Slauter, Will.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 pages)

With contributions by art historians, legal scholars, historians of publishing, and specialists of painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic arts, this rich collection of essays explores the relationship between intellectual property laws and the cultural, economic, and technological factors that transformed the pictorial landscape during the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Law, Culture, and Industry: Toward a History of Intellectual Property for Visual Works in the Long Nineteenth Century -- New Visual Media and Artistic Practices -- Existing Studies and New Lines of Inquiry -- Structure and Common Themes -- Bibliography -- 2. The First Copyright Case under the 1735 Engravings Act: The Germination of Visual Copyright? -- Introduction -- The Statutory Background: The Statute of Anne (1710) and the Engravings Act (1735) -- The Meaning of Invention and Design -- Who Was Elizabeth Blackwell? -- Making and Selling A Curious Herbal -- The Proceedings in Chancery -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3. Who Owns Washington? Gilbert Stuart and the Battle for Artistic Property in the Early American Republic -- Stuart v. Sword: Controlling Copying in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia -- Painting as Intellectual Property in Eighteenth-Century London: Art Theory and its Intersection with Artistic and Trade Practices -- Stuart and the Visual Economy of the Young Republic -- Bibliography -- 4. The Scope of Artistic Copyright in Nineteenth-Century England -- Bibliography -- Statutes -- Legal Cases -- 5. The 'Death of Chatterton' Case: Reproductive Engraving, Stereoscopic Photography, and Copyright for Paintings ca. 1860 -- The Poet and the Painting -- The Rise of Stereography -- Photography and tableaux vivants -- Reproductive Engravings and the Threat of Photography -- Turner's Stand on Behalf of Engraving Rights -- Robinson's Defense -- What Constitutes 'Publication' of a Painting? -- Gallery Rules Related to Copying -- What Constitutes an Illegal Copy? -- Legal Significance v. Commercial and Cultural Effects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6. Before an Image Was Worth a Thousand Words: Ben-Hur and Copyright's Right of Derivatives.

All the Profits of Publication Which the Book Can, in Any Form, Produce -- Ben-Hur: My God, Did I Set All of This in Motion? -- The Masterpiece of the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated -- It Is a Very Valuable Property -- Aftermath: Harper v. Kalem and the Logic of Derivative Works -- Bibliography -- 7. The Frame Maker/Picture Dealer: A Crucial Intermediary in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Print Market -- Philadelphia Frame Makers' Role in the Print Market -- 'Growing Taste for Beauty in Forms and Colors': Philadelphia Frame Makers and Subscription Art Unions -- Frame Maker/Picture Dealers, Print Values, and Copyright -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8. Piracy, Copyright, and the Transnational Trade in Illustrations of News in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Trading Visual News, 1842-1860 -- The Parties -- The Case -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 9. (Re)Assembling Reference Books and Recycling Images: The Wood Engravings of the W. &amp -- R. Chambers Firm -- Sources for Visual Material in Chambers's Encyclopaedia -- The Culture of Copying Among Encyclopedia Publishers -- On-the-Ground Book Production Management -- How New Illustration Styles Presented the Face of 'Modernity' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- 10. Architectural Copyright, Painters and Public Space in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Introduction -- Building Nineteenth-Century Public Spaces -- Image-Making and Public Space -- Architecture and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century -- Architects and the Society of Arts Copyright Committee -- Architectural Copyright and the RIBA Copyright Committee -- Tensions between Painters and Architects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 11. Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture and United States Design Patents -- Hiram Powers -- John King and Thomas Ball -- John Rogers -- Dayton Morgan -- Leonard Volk -- Clark Mills -- Conclusion.

Bibliography -- 12. New or Improved? American Photography and Patents ca. 1840s to 1860s -- The Smithsonian Institution, the Patent Office and Innovation History -- The Patents -- Keeping and Embellishing Photographs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 13. King Tāwhiao's Photograph: Copyright, Celebrity, and the Commercial Image in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand -- Blackman v. Monkton -- Celebrity, Consumers, and the Circulation of Images -- King Tāwhiao -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 14. 'Photography VS the Press': Copyright Law and the Rise of the Photographically Illustrated Press -- Introduction -- Sales Killers: Halftones and the Business of Professional Photographers -- American Newspaper Publishers Association v. Photographers' Copyright League of America: The 1895 Amendment to the Copyright Act -- Loopholes and Letdowns: Bolles v. Outing Co. (1899) and Falk v. Curtis Publishing Co. (1900) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Index.