Early cinema's heyday of copying: The too many copies of L'Arroseur arrosé (the waterer watered)

Cultural Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 227-244

  Gaines, Jane M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copying; Copyright; Duplication; Intellectual property; Mechanical reproduction; Motion picture history

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645124791     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502380600551485     Document Type: Article

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