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. All the links:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNathanJacobsPodcast X: https://x.com/NathanJacobsPod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0hSskUtCwDT40uFbqTk3QS Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nathan-jacobs-podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenathanjacobspodcast Substack: https://nathanajacobs.substack.com/ Website: https://www.nathanajacobs.com/ Academia: https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/NathanAJacobs 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