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A Brief Publishing History of Don Quixote (2024)

• jbperry 1y ago
  Would be interesting to see a good write-up of just how much publishers ripped off other peoples work in these early days.
  • m463 1y ago
    I think the early french film - A Trip to the Moon - was pirated by edison and others in the united states and the original filmmakers didn't make any money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Release
    • danlitt 1y ago
      Very common, many such cases. The reason Hollywood is on the west coast is because it was outside the effective reach of Edison's patents. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sl4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3130,3977758 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sl4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmUF...
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