{"id":16008,"date":"2023-01-09T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-motion-picture-film-to-receive-copyright\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:42:24","slug":"first-motion-picture-film-to-receive-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-motion-picture-film-to-receive-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFirst\u201d Motion Picture Film to Receive Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2011\/01\/07\/first-patent-for-motion-picture-film\/440px-fred_otts_sneeze\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-235\" title=\"Fred Ott's Sneeze\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/bf583__440px-Fred_Otts_Sneeze-220x300.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/440px-Fred_Otts_Sneeze-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/440px-Fred_Otts_Sneeze.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>January 9, 1894<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W.K._Dickson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W.K. Dickson<\/a>, an employee of Thomas Edison&#8217;s movie studio, receives a copyright for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion picture film<\/a>. The 5 second demonstration was a 47-frame film showing a man sneezing. This man, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Ott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Ott<\/a>, is now most famously known for having this sneeze recorded in film. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/treasures\/trr018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Ott&#8217;s Sneeze<\/a>&#8221; is the earliest surviving film to receive a copyright in the United States.\u00a0While technically\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinetoscope#Going_public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a copyright for a film had been granted to Edison&#8217;s studio in the previous year<\/a>, the records for what film it was have been lost.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/09\/first-motion-picture-film-to-receive-copyright\/\">&#8220;First&#8221; Motion Picture Film to Receive Copyright<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/09\/first-motion-picture-film-to-receive-copyright\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 9, 1894 W.K. Dickson, an employee of Thomas Edison&#8217;s movie studio, receives a copyright for a\u00a0motion picture film. The 5 second demonstration was a 47-frame film showing a man sneezing. This man, Fred Ott, is now most famously known for having this sneeze recorded in film. &#8220;Fred Ott&#8217;s Sneeze&#8221; is the earliest surviving film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2101,2835,399,2809,2302,1177],"class_list":["post-16008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-copyright","tag-film","tag-first","tag-motion","tag-picture","tag-receive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}