...wn) and a more universal one was relegated to a group of special individuals called artists. Theirs is the job to experience (mostly emotions), to ... .... They could be alive or dead (for instance, he could measure himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art... ...t they assimilated). Singularities imply a tear in the fabric of spacetime and the ubiquity of these creature completely annuls its continuous char... ...on from competitors - otherwise it might be forced to give outsiders access to its records and intellectual property. It raises entry and mobility ... ...ultimedia; • Database, Favourites, Annotations, and History Maintenance (archival records of reading habits, shopping habits, interaction with oth... ...ed by periods of frustration, dead ends, failures, and blind alleys in one's work. Artists - especially performing artists (like musicians) - often... ...on of warfare - the invention of nuclear weapons, the propagation of total war, the ubiquity of guerrilla and national liberation movements, the em... ...ices, clear ownership structure, available track record and historical performance records – are sine qua non in today's financing world. 5. From... ...ger a negligible minority. Nor are they bereft of political assets. Their power and ubiquity increase with every jerky change of government. Their ...

...es that entrepreneurs assume the risks associated with publishing books, recording records, and inventing only because - and where - the rights to ... ...l Jackson, Schwarzenegger and Grisham are businessmen at least as much as they are artists. Intellectual property is a relatively new notion. In t... ...e revered. But they were rarely financially rewarded. Well into the 19th century, artists and innovators were commissioned - and salaried - to pro... ...sion of intellectual property rights may merely be a final spasm, threatened by the ubiquity of the Internet as they are. Free scholarly online pub... ...rom ad sponsored content to packaged open source software. Many creative people - artists, authors, innovators - are repelled by the commercializa... ...ices, clear ownership structure, available track record and historical performance records – are sine qua non in today's financing world. 5. From... ...kely to witness the death of the car dealer, the classical retail outlet, the music records shop. For that matter, inventions like the internet is l... ...line in personal thrift, the skyrocketing number of personal bankruptcies, and the ubiquity of venality and corruption both corporate and political...