...istory shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The early models of commercial (as compared to academic) computing assumed that the... ...gram- ming. The PC of the 1980s—the parent of today’s PC—diverged from these models, but the result was by no means a foregone conclusion. Internet us... ...nformation services were built around very different tech- nical and business models. Their designs were much easier to secure against il- legal behavi... ... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...ativity it enables among coders, but also by the creativity it enables among artists—and among groups of each. 90 THE GENERATIVE PATTERN Generative te... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ...blishers, Untrustworthy Systems, and the Dream of a Digital Rev- olution for Artists, 114 H. L. R. 2438, 2455 – 56 (2001) (asserting that the No ...

...alon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with payment and pricing models. But this is besides the point. Whether in the form of subscription ... ...dy shifting to the Web. Non-fiction and textbooks will follow. Alternative models of pricing are already in evidence (author pays to publish, author ... ...n activities. This trend is also likely to restore the balance between artists and the commercial exploiters of their products. The very definiti... ...his reduces the time to market and increases efficiency. It alters revenue models very substantially. Content creators can thus concentrate on what t... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ..., Schwarzenegger and Grisham are businessmen at least as much as they are artists. Economically and rationally, we should expect that the costlier ... ...rks at home via computer and Internet. The Internet makes it possible for artists to publish their own books, music, videos and Websites. Video conf...

...tures!’ ‘And especially portraits. And I’m afraid, Mr Dalrymple, she hates artists.’ 233 Anthony Trollope ‘Good heavens; how cruel! I suppose there i... ...’ said Miss V an Siever. ‘ And none was intended. But you may observe that artists in all ages have sought for higher types of models in painting wome... ...t you may observe that artists in all ages have sought for higher types of models in painting women who have been violent or criminal, than have suf- ... ...ld you object? It is the commonest thing in the world for ladies to sit to artists in that manner.’ 250 The Last Chronicle of Barset ‘People would kn... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...it not been for that turban. He had been painting all his life from living models—from women dressed up in this or that costume, to suit the necessiti... ...is picture—but he had never made love to any of them. They had been simply models to him, and now he found that there was a difficulty. ‘Of that prize... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘...

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...allow a decentralized and iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories,... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...rhaps you are a collage artist who wishes to incorporate images that amateur artists have put online. None of the works are marked by a copyright symb... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...r an acquisition but a creation, namely literary property...r econ- cile the artists with society by means of property. 43 Diderot wanted perpetual co... ...know whether the loss was greater than the gain and whether revised business models and new distribution mechanisms could avoid the losses while captu... ...Indeed, the difference is illustrated by com- parison of two epidemiological models describing the spread of different kinds of disease. In a common s... ...llicit copying, but it also lowers advertising costs and offers new business models—Netflix, downloads on de- mand, viral distribution of trailers, and...

...ire, Nolan Ryan, and Lenny Dysktra on television. These men were my role models. They were my favorite athletes in baseball, and they inspired me to... ...culating is that it was brought on by the violence on television and music artists such as Marilyn Manson and the heavy metal band Metallica. Does tha... ...specially by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones who promote these types of movies ...