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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Copyright Act Amendment, Washington D.C. (1865) Source: Library of Congress: 13 Stat. 540 Citation: Copyright Act Amendment (1865), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: us_1865 Full title An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act to amend the several Acts respecting Copyright" Full title original language N/A Abstract An amendment to the Copyright Act that introduced for the first time copyright protection to photographs. The commentary explores the mutual influences of copyright law and the field of photography that began to emerge in the second half of the nineteenth century and gathered momentum during the Civil War. Photography was constructed using competing images in copyright discourse, as a non-artistic activity based on mechanical skill or as a creative field of original authorship. At the same time photography presented a challenge to central concepts within copyright thought and contributed to their development and transformation during the late nineteenth century. This process was most conspicuous in regard to the concept of originality in copyright law. Bibliography Farley, Christine Haight. "Copyright Law"s Response to the Invention of Photography." 65 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 385 (2004). Panzer, Mary. Mathew Brady and the image of history. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1997. Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Washington D.C. Year 1865 Language English Source Library of Congress: 13 Stat. 540 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A Persons referred to in commentary N/A Places referred to Washington Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to U.S. Copyright Act 1831, 21st Cong., 2d Sess., 4 Stat. 436 U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1856, 11 Stat. 138 U.S. Copyright Amendment Act 1865 (extending copyright to photographs), 13 Stat. 540, c.126 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Library of Congress U.S. Congress U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words books, protected subject matter deposit editions, new engravings, protected subject matter libraries maps, protected subject matter music, protected subject matter photography, protected subject matter Responsible editor Oren Bracha Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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