Episode 136: The Coase of Copyright

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 and writing

Zahr Said, A Transactional Theory of the Reader in Copyright Law

Joseph Miller, Hoisting Originality

About Louise Rosenblatt

Oral Argument 132: The Soul of Music (guest Joe Fishman)

Joseph Fishman, Music as a Matter of Law

Mark A. Lemley, Our Bizarre System for Proving Copyright Infringement

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, The Normativity of Copying in Copyright Law

Laura Heymann, Reading Together and Apart: Juries, Courts, and Substantial Similarity in Copyright Law

Jacob Lawrence, The Studio

Rebecca Tushnet, Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law

Adrienne Rich, Turbulence

The Big Sick

Special Guest: Zahr Said.