Many people think the history of photography is the history of invention.
But the history of the photography much more significantly is the history of patenting inventions, controlling certain ideas, certain principles, certain techniques, certain devices of photography, and keeping other people from commercially exploiting your ideas. The history of the Kodak company still to this day is very much about litigations in relationship to certain concepts and ideas. Just give me some examples in his early firm of the importance of these patents for George Eastman. Well, the very beginning of photography, experiments that Daguerre and Niepce start, is about the idea of commercially controlling the idea and invention of photography. And when the announcement was made in 1839, there were immediate attempts made to patent and to control and commercially exploit all of the concepts, all of the techniques of photography.