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
