Hollywood Taxidermy | The Rise of the IP Serial Killer

Join us for Part Two of our Hollywood Taxidermy series, where Dr. Jacobs explores intellectual property and creative adaptation. Through the lens of natural law and rights theory, he'll examine what it means to faithfully adapt stories from page to screen while honoring creators' original visions.

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00:00:00 Hollywood taxidermy & examples 

00:12:13 An overview of rights

00:26:43 An overview of natural law 

00:46:19 Invention versus discovery

01:11:24 Ownership and destruction

01:35:06 A guide for stewardship in adaptation 

02:01:46 A few examples of Hollywood’s many violations 

02:10:48 Han shot first 

02:19:46 The permissibility of knockoffs