...et signals to allocate resources. If a lot of people want petunias for their gardens, and are willing to pay handsomely for them, then some farmer who... ...may be very hard to exclude people from Madame Bovary. Imagine a Napster for French literature; everyone could have Madame Bovary and only the first pu... ...birthday poem. It is one of the reasons that the central moral rights in the French droits d’auteur, or author’s rights, tradition resonate so strongl... ...art of the literary moral rights tradition to the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. In France before the Revolution, as in England before ... ... many ways in which state communications policy is set and the communicative landscape tilted to favor the rich and powerful. 54 Macaulay worried abou... ...rate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative landscape in music. (It is almost as hard to take seriously the record in... ... the story of DeCSS, this little controversy has a lot to teach us about the landscape of intellectual property disputes, about the mental topography ...

...self-assurance diminishes. Once, it was only necessary to dash around the garden or throw back one’s head and laugh... Yellow-headed Atthis, lazy-ey... ...the sand, as Atthis and I talked softly. Sappho’s garden, terraces of roses, shrubbery and cypress, has the ocean below: mo... ..., people scurrying to get indoors. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 45 Only in the garden is there shelter, near the fountain. An angle of the house shuts of... ...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...oughing, the fellow said: “Do you call your Mona Lisa and your Saint John landscapes?” I could sense that he was annoyed by my French. So, his hand... ...—rain on his velvet suit. And I began rethinking: why have I painted few landscapes, seascapes (in the Dutch tradition); why have I painted so many...