...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...ttle on 2-3 (Netscape, Microsoft and Opera?). Networks will merge to form privately owned mega-networks. Servers will merge to form hyper-servers run... ...ource code, the technical language of their field. While some courts have held that source code is protected as a kind of speech, other courts are g... ...ernet has to be free and that people won't pay for it. For a few years it held somewhat true, but as the Internet population became more experienced,... ...to 2-3 (Netscape, Microsoft and which else?). Networks will merge to form privately owned mega-networks. Servers will merge to form hyper-servers run...

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... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself. “I cer tainly held threes—I know it—but I drew and didn’t fill. That’s where I’m so ofte... ... whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she was now trembling, every Sab ... ...e multimillionaire was seen begging his bread in the Bowery. Aleck sternly held her grip and “put up” ass long as she could, but at last there came a ... ...he first heard it. But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspect... ... In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse... ...e, in conversa 219 Mark Twain tion; but we can’t pretend it to ourselves privately—and we don’t. We do confess in public that we are the noblest wor...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...ctively harmful. At the annual meeting of the Kongress deutscher Volkswirthe held in Dresden, September 1863, the following resolution was adopted “by... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ... no ability to control their behavior. For those reasons, a court of appeals held that Grokster was not liable. As in Sony, the system had substantial... ...the products of synthetic biology— to fight overly broad patent rights with a privately constructed copyright commons, to ride the process of legal exp... ...the debate over intellectual property, a new tactic: the attempt to create a privately constructed commons where the public domain created by the stat...

... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...I should have had my wits at my fingers’ ends, and, using them, could have held you at arm’s length. But you have given me no such opportunity; you t... ..., but one of jaded flints and stones, laid down by brutal igno rance, and held together, like the solid rocks, by years of this most wicked axiom. C... ...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...hat they never should be, and so the order went forth that they were to be privately and confidentially burnt. It came to pass that they were burnt in... ...much delight to honour. Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter with a ga...

...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ...er print the paper called the New England Courant.” There was a consultation held in our printing house among his friends, what he should do in this c... ...icly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New... ...He agreed to try the practice, if I would keep him company. I did so, and we held it for three months. We had our victuals dress’d, and brought to us ... ... was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion’d so... ...furnished themselves as soon as they could with arms, formed themselves into companies and regiments, chose their own officers, and met every week to ... ...ors, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 102 which they presented to the companies, painted with dif ferent devices and mottos, which I supplied....

...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...