 Brevets et émergence de l'industrie cinématographique, une étude comparative Etats-Unis - Europe (1895-1908)Post-Print from HAL Abstract: The historical emergence of the film industry in the United States and in Europe between 1895 and 1908 is analyzed in relation with the importance of the institution of patents (or « brevets d'invention ») and how it fosters economic activity. The theories and economic justifications of the patent institutions are studied in both countries. This period is dominated on the American side by the claims of the inventor Thomas Edison, which led to a prolonged war about patents which strongly handicapped the production and gave rise to the monopoly of the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC). Conversely, in Europe, more particularly in France, one notes a fast rise of multiple film production companies in a directly competing form. The systematic comparative analysis will then highlight the causes of these so dissimilar evolutions, i.e. two historical configurations of the rights of intellectual propriety and two different definitions of the institution of patent. This historical study can thus inform the recurring theoretical debate in the past as well as today on the definition, the width, the depth and the reinforcement of patent. Keywords: motion picture industry; brevets d'invention; industrie du cinéma; brevets; patents; Edison (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Les Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales, 2006, 61eme année - n° 5 (septembre-octobre 2006), pp.1123-1145 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00129216 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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