In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony.
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Few would guess that one of those photographs would become the subject of the Supreme Court case that challenged Copyright protection for all photography--a constitutional question that asked how a machine-made image could possibly be a work of human creativity.
In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony