The Coase of Copyright

About this Episode

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