With Zahr Said, we discuss what makes creative works similar and the role of the “reader” in constructing a work’s meaning. Christian derails with a James Bond commercial. But we get back on track and talk about paintings, poems, Star Wars, textualism, and the Big Sick.
This show’s links:
Zahr Said’s faculty profile (https://www.law.washington.edu/directory/profile.aspx?ID=602) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1030166)
Zahr Said, A Transactional Theory of the Reader in Copyright Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2902765)
Joseph Miller, Hoisting Originality (http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1778&context=fac_artchop)
About Louise Rosenblatt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Rosenblatt)
Oral Argument 132: The Soul of Music (http://oralargument.org/132) (guest Joe Fishman)
Joseph Fishman, Music as a Matter of Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2931091)
Mark A. Lemley, Our Bizarre System for Proving Copyright Infringement (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1661434)
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, The Normativity of Copying in Copyright Law (http://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/the-normativity-of-copying-in-copyright-law/)
Laura Heymann, Reading Together and Apart: Juries, Courts, and Substantial Similarity in Copyright Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2958263)
Jacob Lawrence, The Studio (https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-studio-1977)
Rebecca Tushnet, Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law (http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/fwps_papers/148/)
Adrienne Rich, Turbulence (http://wwnorton.tumblr.com/post/11358653379/turbulence-adrienne-rich)
The Big Sick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sick)
Special Guest: Zahr Said.