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The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) of "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915. The success of "The Great Train Robbery" inspired several similar films. The first (premiering less than a year later, in August 1904) was a remake of the same name directed by Siegmund Lubin. It has been called the first film remake (at the time, copyright protection for motion pictures was legally murky and illegally copied prints and unauthorized remakes abounded. It wasn't until the 1912 Townsend Amendment to the Copyright Act of 1909 that motion pictures were specifically defined as a protected work). The film also inspired numerous imitators, including "The Bold