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Season 5's Good Wife continues to be excellent. This week's episode case of the week was a copyright infringement case involving two covers of a rap song, which resulted in psychological warfare between opposing counsels. The song - which was described by the original artist as a satirical take on the type of guy who feels the need to put women down in order to build up his own ego - worked as a metaphor for the tensions between the characters.
Like the majority of the episodes this season, it was deftly layered. But I particularly enjoyed the deft depiction of the complex nature of copyright law. And why it's impossible to create an ideal law. At the center of the complexity is a disagreement on what is an original work, what is a transformative work, and a derivative work. You'd think the distinctions are simple. They aren't. The Good Wife portrayed these complexities in a hilarious fashion.
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Like the majority of the episodes this season, it was deftly layered. But I particularly enjoyed the deft depiction of the complex nature of copyright law. And why it's impossible to create an ideal law. At the center of the complexity is a disagreement on what is an original work, what is a transformative work, and a derivative work. You'd think the distinctions are simple. They aren't. The Good Wife portrayed these complexities in a hilarious fashion.
( spoilers )