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 systemati...
The influence of political and social institutions on economic development is a major question devel...
Abstract In the early days of the cinema, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was Edison 's ...
This paper is concerned with the cultural implications of legal decisions around the invention and p...
34 pagesThe purpose of this article is to establish a typology of the major business models develope...
42This text is part of a general study of U.S. patents wars in the late nineteenth and early twentie...
The history of patent systems suggests that protecting invention, which was supposed to encourage ec...
Cette étude porte sur le phénomène de la « guerre des patents », à partir de trois exemples histori...
This book studies the relationship between technological innovation and industrial property in Franc...
La première version de cet article, déposée en Archive ouvertes comme note de recherche, était intit...
La dernière décennie du XVIIIe siècle a apporté des changements non seulement dans l'ordre politique...
This paper surveys the recent historiography of three national patent systems during the period of t...
En 1791 en France, les brevets d’invention remplacent les privilèges de l’Ancien Régime. En échange ...
As an important issue of the debate on industrial property in nineteenth century France, the non exa...
Considered sometimes as one of the factors of industrialization, the patent system has always been d...
International audienceThe relationship between French public research and industrial property is amb...
The influence of political and social institutions on economic development is a major question devel...
Abstract In the early days of the cinema, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was Edison 's ...
This paper is concerned with the cultural implications of legal decisions around the invention and p...
34 pagesThe purpose of this article is to establish a typology of the major business models develope...
42This text is part of a general study of U.S. patents wars in the late nineteenth and early twentie...
The history of patent systems suggests that protecting invention, which was supposed to encourage ec...
Cette étude porte sur le phénomène de la « guerre des patents », à partir de trois exemples histori...
This book studies the relationship between technological innovation and industrial property in Franc...
La première version de cet article, déposée en Archive ouvertes comme note de recherche, était intit...
La dernière décennie du XVIIIe siècle a apporté des changements non seulement dans l'ordre politique...
This paper surveys the recent historiography of three national patent systems during the period of t...
En 1791 en France, les brevets d’invention remplacent les privilèges de l’Ancien Régime. En échange ...
As an important issue of the debate on industrial property in nineteenth century France, the non exa...
Considered sometimes as one of the factors of industrialization, the patent system has always been d...
International audienceThe relationship between French public research and industrial property is amb...
The influence of political and social institutions on economic development is a major question devel...
Abstract In the early days of the cinema, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was Edison 's ...
This paper is concerned with the cultural implications of legal decisions around the invention and p...