Unfair to genius : the strange and litigious career of Ira B. Arnstein / Gary A. Rosen.
"A musical prodigy in the late nineteenth century, Arnstein performed as a boy soprano at the famous 1893 'White City' exhibition in Chicago. He grew up to be a composer of moderate accomplishment, but by the mid-1920s his fortunes had reversed in the face of changing tastes and times...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "A musical prodigy in the late nineteenth century, Arnstein performed as a boy soprano at the famous 1893 'White City' exhibition in Chicago. He grew up to be a composer of moderate accomplishment, but by the mid-1920s his fortunes had reversed in the face of changing tastes and times. Embittered and confused, he became convinced that he was the victim of a conspiracy to steal his music and set out on a three-decade-long campaign to prove it, suing most of the major players in the popular music industry of his day. Although Arnstein never won a case, Rosen shows that the decisions rendered ultimately defined some of the basic parameters of copyright law. His most consequential case, against a dumbfounded Cole Porter, established precedents that have provided the foundation for successful suits against George Harrison, Michael Bolton, and many others"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190259892 0199838313 1280595841 9780190259891 9780199838318 9781280595844 |