Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 volume 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 circa 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 volume 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 volume 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. and R. Chambers Firm -- Sources for Visual Material in Chambers's Encyclopaedia

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.

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