8. Piracy, Copyright, and the Transnational Trade in Illustrations of News in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Thomas Smits is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual (news) culture. He applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to analyse large collections of historical images and is the author of the prize-winning The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842–1870 (Routledge, 2019).