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The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical: The easy permission model of Netflix should be the future for fan-created works

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Bridgerton is the Netflix television sensation that enraptured the United States in late 2020. A derivative work itself, Netflix’s Bridgerton is based on the book series by Julia Quinn , a Regency-era series set between 1813 and 1827. The difference in Netflix’s approach to fan works likely stems from the company’s history.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television). Barr makes explicit a factor we had long suspected with the skew of evidence on the Portal: the music industry is disproportionately overrepresented in empirical copyright literature.