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... copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its...

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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ... create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is deeply embedded in a literary, musical, cultural, or scientific tra- dition that would not flourish if tre... ...ghts about human nature, the periodic table, Ohm’s law, the sonnet form, the musical scale. Would you have paid to purchase access to each of these? I... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...ristic sounds: the warm guitar that came out of the valve amplifiers of early funk, the thrashing (and poorly miked) drums of ’80s punk, or the tinny p... ...ractices. Samplers take a three- second segment off the actual recording of “Funky Drummer,” manipulate it, and turn it into a repeating rhythm loop f... ...more often? Why do samplers not simply recreate James Brown’s drumbeat from “Funky Drum- mer,” or George Clinton’s solo from “Get Off Your Ass and Jam...

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...se and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and scraps of seaweed. A stranger, entering, felt... ...lay curled up asleep at the core of the glamour, like the moon; on the sea rocking backwards and forwards till it rocked her island as she slept. She ... ...ning sunlight pierced vividly through the slits of the blind. Beatrice lay rocking herself, breathing hard, her finger-nails pressing into her palm. T... ...s, stealthily, through a poultry farm whose fowls were standing in forlorn groups, once more dismayed by evening, Helena’s pride battled with her new ... ...rightened, horrified eyes. ‘What of yourself?’ he said, resentfully. ‘I’ve funked-ran away from my leper, and now am eating my heart out, and staring ... ...nst Beatrice, and sailing the do- mestic ship in spite of her, I’ve always funked. I tell you I’m 86 The Trespasser something of a moral coward.’ He ... ... his father’s characteristic atti- tude. ‘He would come slinking back in a funk!’ he said, with a young man’s sneer. 134 The Trespasser Stretching fo... ...t hand, large shapes of trees rose up. Farther, lamps like little mushroom groups shone amid an undergrowth of darkness. There was a vague hoarse nois... ...ust provide for them. And then what? Humiliation at home, Helena forsaken, musical comedy night after night. That was insufferable—impossible! 164 Th...

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...ve indistinctly, enormous self-assertive things, he backs into the rear of groups by instinct if Banghurst drops the line for a minute, and when he wa... ...tty biting bit of vermin. I glanced at Gip, but Gip was looking at a magic rocking—horse. I was glad he hadn’t seen the thing. “I say,” I said, in an ... ...sted bushes and strange dry shapes of horny branches that grew amongst the rocks, into the levels below. And there the trail grew faint, for the soil ... ...of water, with nothing but a strip of dried meat under their saddles, over rocks and mountains, where surely none but these fugi- tives had ever been ... ...d only say “you should have tasted it!” and of fairy music, “like a little musical box,” that came out of nodding flowers. There was a great open plac... ...They seemed to think ‘haunt- ing’ a tremendous adventure, and most of them funked it all the time. And so primed, you know, he had come.” “But really!... ...f it down below. I was hot and frightfully heady—quite apart from the blue funk I was in. We’d never repined with these beastly natives, filthy Papuan... ...mething awful, like being buried in sand, pain across the chest, sick with funk, and breathing nothing as it seemed but the smell of rum and mackintos...

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...and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. “Them’s rockets, sir—ain’t they?” said one of the men in a muffled voice. “Aye, roc... ...o windward and beyond a maze of broken water, sandspits, and clus- ters of rocks, the black hull of the yacht heeling over, high and motionless upon t... ...been brought up in the middle of a broad belt of clear water. To the north rocky ledges showed in black and white lines upon the slight swell setting ... ...at you’re doing and are not so apt to start a trouble from sheer temper or funk—see?” In this case he did his best to kill a man with a blow from the ... ...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...thrown in for each speci- men—marked to suit your re-quirements. Sup- pose—musical instruments, this side up with care— how’s that for your taste? No,... .... She seemed to have some- thing in her mind. Oh, yes! The chaps were in a funk. Would they fight? Anybody would fight when driven to it, funk or no f... ...rs. Travers lowered the glass. All at once behind her back she heard a low musical voice beginning to pour out incomprehen- sible words in a tone of p... ... reasons simple or perverse. Opera! Dresses! Yes—about Shakespeare and the musical glasses! For a mere whim or for the deepest purpose. Women worthy o...

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...t under his armpit like a lance, but with both hands, he charged madly the rocking house with the force of a battering-ram, burst- ing open the door a... ...collected, as if carrying something holy, fragile, and precious. The earth rocked at times under his feet. IX WITH MOVEMENTS of mechanical care and an... ...road on a perpendicular wall of ba- salt wound itself around a buttressing rock, and at last we emerged from the gloom of a deep gorge upon the upland... ...lusion that there must be some untrustworthy elements amongst the Lon- don groups. And I came over to see what could be done quietly. “My first step w... ... that it dated from the time they were holding garrison in Strasbourg. The musical surgeon shook his head at that. It went much farther back, he thoug... ...thiness—and had incidentally learned by experience the meaning of the word funk. As far as he could make out she seemed to imply that, with an unbound... ...ut the band had broken up, and were entering the alley in small conversing groups. The Count sat up straight and tried to think calmly of what had hap...

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... of ten thousand horse, all going like a cataract under a rainbow over the rocks, right into the middle of the enemy and through; and he a spark ahead... ... be stubborn to resist a softness. Now she cared no more for the hackneyed musical word; friendship was her desire. If it is not life’s poetry, it is ... ... old housewives in doorways, gaffer goodman meeting his crony on the path, groups of boys and girls. She would take the girls, Matthew Weyburn the boy... ...159 George Meredith the violent fencers, good for making his point, if one funks an attack.’ ‘That man Morsfield, is it? I wonder what he’s doing on t... ...rely uttered a syllable since the start of the flight from Ashead. She had rocked in a swing between sen- sation and imagination, exultant, rich with ... ...y Weyburn. A sigh like the roll of a great wave breaking against a wall of rock came from her for the possibly lost chance of naming him to his face M... ... 250 Lord Ormont and His Aminta ‘You may be feeling tired presently.’ The musical sincerity of her ‘Oh no, not I!’ sped through his limbs; he had a w...

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...ENS ENS ENS WHEN I RETURNED to the common the sun was setting. Scat- tered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons w... ...the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atm... ...t the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead. The horse took the bit between his teeth and bolted. A mod... ...d terrible day of the Lord! When men shall call upon the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them and hide them—hide them from the face of Him that s... ...e to discharge enormous clouds of a black and poisonous vapour by means of rockets. They have smothered our batteries, destroyed Richmond, Kingston, a... ...ly into the quiet air. As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a ten- tacle that had been ... ...no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other—Lord! What is he but funk and precau- tions? They just used to skedaddle off to work—I’ve seen h... ...the Lord. Very likely you’ve seen the same thing. It’s energy in a gale of funk, and turned clean inside out. These cages will be full of psalms and h... ...ace. And they can’t be happy. Moreover, dying’s none so dreadful; it’s the funking makes it bad. And in all those places we shall gather. Our district...

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...ly man fit for the job not to be found anywhere. I began to think you were funking it, too… .” “I haven’t been long getting to the office,” I remarked... ...vage face of that old seaman. However, I noticed that she was holding some musical instru- ment—guitar or mandoline—in her hand. Perhaps that was the ... ...nds of faint tapping on the deck. They could be heard single, in pairs, in groups. While I wondered at this mysterious dev- ilry, I received a slight ... ...ve a light,” he added nervously. All that time the ship lay as steady as a rock. The noise of the water pouring off the sails and spars, flowing over ... ....” The wistful smile came back on his lips for a moment. “I—I am in a blue funk about my heart, sir.” I approached him with extended hand. His eyes no...

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... clumps of lilac and yellow acacia. Also, there were a few insignifi- cant groups of slender-leaved, pointed-tipped birch trees, with, under two of th... ...ke the most inane of remarks, and at once the maiden by their side will be rocking with laughter; whereas, should a State Councillor enter into conver... ... you to be anything of the kind, but, you see, these fellows are in a blue funk about the new Gover- nor-General, for they think he will make trouble ... ...pses of elm-tops amid mist, the far- off notes of bells, endless clouds of rocks, and the illimit- able line of the horizon. Ah, Russia, Russia, from ... ...ht, one in the middle, and one to the left, after the fashion of triumphal groups of statuary. Above them, on the box seat, were seated a coachman and... ... for instance?” “For a young man, dancing, the playing of one or an- other musical instrument, and—well, yes, marriage.” “Marriage to whom?” “To some ... ..., are you thinking of travelling?” “To tell the truth,” replied Chichikov, rocking himself to and fro on the bench, and smoothing his knee with his ha...

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... not object to call him so twenty times. “Do it, and see!” returns Ripton, rocking on his feet, and breathing quick. With a gravity of which only boys... ...! Perhaps he hasn’t found the place where the box was stuck in. I think he funks it. I almost wish you hadn’t done it, upon my honour—eh? Look there! ... ...good within us, without which nature has neither music nor meaning, and is rock, stone, tree, and nothing more. In the dark, the dead leaves beating o... ...ichard continued in a low tone, transferring the names, and playing on the musical strings they were to him. Then he said: “Names of ladies! How they ... ...Not to feel that you have been in the water, the very mo- ment after!” she musically interjected, seeing she was excused. “It’s true,” he said; and hi... ...e woodland, a sheep-boy pipes to meditative eve on a penny-whistle. Love’s musical instrument is as old, and as poor: it has but two stops; and yet, y... ...dy of advertised lodgings, on the borders of Kensington, noted, as she sat rocking her contemplative person before the parlour fire this very March af... ..., the ladies a pretty playfulness. He was very busy, pass- ing between the groups, chatting, laughing, taking the femi- nine taps he received, and som...

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... Some of them had already started and those that were left now set off, in groups of two or three. “You’d better come along with me, Carey,” said the ... ...- ward to eat a sandwich and drink a glass of beer . All round were little groups of students, talking and laughing; and here and there was a family ,... ... the real thing: I felt the glow of your young passion, and your prose was musical from the sincerity of your emotion. You must be happy! I wish I cou... ... fine night; and Philip looked curiously at the people, here little family groups, there a knot of men with odd-shaped hats and beards talking loudly ... ...so afraid of Foinet that he won’t let him see his work. After all, I don’t funk it, do I? I don’t care what Foinet says to me, I know I’m a real artis... ...id style which seemed able to put com- plicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of ple... ... but he could not prevent the mad beat- ing of his heart. At that time the musical com- edy had lately leaped into public favour, and he was sure that... ...fferent crowd that watched them, went up to her, took her in her arms, and rocked her gently to and fro as if she were a baby . When they were gone a ... ... the chimney-piece an elaborate arrangement of shells stuck on a miniature rock; and on each side mugs, `A present from Southend’ in Gothic letters, w...

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...ett—that he had already begun to take in. Who were they all, the dispersed groups and couples, the ladies even more unlike those of Woollett than the ... ...him for a firm object—much as he might to his own sense appear at times to rock—he would do his best to be one. The end of it was that half an hour la... ...ices, successively, for helping to keep the adven- turous skiff afloat. It rocked beneath him, but he settled himself in his place. He took up an oar ... ...em. It might have been, on analysis, nothing more than Shakespeare and the musical glasses; but it had served all the purpose of his appearing to have... ...e reeds on the oppo- site bank, the faint diffused coolness and the slight rock of a couple of small boats attached to a rough landing- place hard by.... ...way of protecting herself. I don’t need protection, so that I was free to ‘funk’ you—simply to dodge your test. The responsibility was too much for me...

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...irst summer after their marriage that he was charmed with the vivacity and musical talent of her young sister Angela, now upon the world again. Angela... ...heeriness, still young-look- ing, though his hair too was scantier and his musical tones subdued; and Geraldine, pensive in eye and lip, but often spa... ...hem. Alda would give him no peace.” “Certainly not there. Brownlow advises Rockquay . His deli- cate brother is a curate there, and it agrees with him... ...ir Gorgias Midas’ riches. I do hate orchids.” “I wish them on their native rocks, poor things,” said Gerald. “But poor Fernan, you do him an injustice... ...both connections of the Underwoods. General Mohun lived with his sister at Rockstone, Sir Jas- per, his brother-in-law, at Clipstone, not far off, and... ...ided on con- trary to old-world instincts, Mrs. Grinstead, in right of the musical element that her brother promised, the beautiful Mrs. Henderson, to... ...e sang—well, she sang better than she did at home; but she was in an awful funk, though I kept on looking at her, and shouting bravo to encourage her;... ...it of search- ing gaze. He did not speak much, but watched the merry young groups as if they were a sort of comedy in his eyes. They were very merry, ...

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...band, growing like a rose out of a 26 The Amazing Marriage weather-beaten rock, proved she was that, among those hand- some foreign officers poorly r... ...was nothing, either in physic or assistance, he was like a great corner of rock. You may indeed imagine grief in the very rock that sees its flower fa... ...w plank, and up a steep and stony pathway, almost a water- course, between rocks, to another meadow, level with the house, that led ascending through ... ...hey consulted, and a feminine tongue more urgent than the others, and very musical, sweet to hear any- where, put him in tune. She said, ‘Brother! bro... ...o the line of promenaders, a river of cross-currents by the side of seated groups; and the willowy swish of silken dresses, femi- nine perfumery, ciga... ...er, told of plea- sure reigning. 77 George Meredith Fleetwood scanned the groups. He had seen enough in a moment and his face blackened. A darting wa... ...ignificance of gambling. The brilliant lights, the band music, the sitting groups and company of promenaders were novelties; the Ball of the ensuing n... ...there would be no contempt of Kit Ines in a tussle with him. Nor could one funk the tussle and play cur, if Kit’s engaged young woman were looking on....

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...our, till the dawn was nearly at hand. At last three lions appeared over a rock. I had noticed, the day before, spoor of a lion and two females.’ ‘May... ...my, and she was at pains to warn Arthur. But he only laughed. ‘The man’s a funk,’ he said. ‘Do you think if he’ d had any thing in him at all he woul... ...turn of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.’ His voice, poignant and musical, blended with the suave music of the words so that Margaret felt sh... ...verwhelming fragrance and she could hardly bear it. ‘She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times,... ...g out the moisture in all growing things, tearing it even from the eternal rocks; when the flames poured down like the rushing of the wind, and all th... ...f any importance,’ she laughed. Presently the diners began to go in little groups, and Mar garet suggested that they should saunter towards the Madel...

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...ays been a little haunted by that last dread. It gave a little undertow of funk to the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane... ...th which I got aboard the waterplane this morning—that sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the verge of any new experience; when o... ...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...ds of feet up into the sky, the air is more irregular than a torrent among rocks; it is—if only we could see it—a waving, whirling, eddying, flamboyan... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... ...e a general form for it. Every art nowadays must steer its way between the rocks of trivial and degrading standards and the whirlpool of arbitrary and... .... All that fine talk, without some further exposition, goes to sustain Mr. Rockefeller’s simple human love of property, and the woman and child sweati... ...esearch would pack into a very small room, that they are working in little groups without any properly organised system of intercom- munication, and t... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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...ge our standpoint and examine our machinery at the point of application. A rock-drilling ma- chine may be excellently invented and in the most perfect... ...or a want of hardness in the drill, and yet there will remain an unpierced rock as obdurate as the general public to so many of our innovations. I bel... ...nd if in the future it should be found possible to divide up humanity into groups, some of which could pair with one another only to the disadvantage ... ...Banstead, to what is perhaps preferable, the system of boarding-out little groups of children with suitable poor people. Provided such boarded-out chi... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...lve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as early as pos- sible—every child, ‘musical’ or not, can be trained, just as every child, ‘artistic’ or not, ma... ...gently rather than to play it—to distinguish the threads, the values, of a musical com- position, to have a quickened ear rather than a disciplined ha... ...y false idea of a crystal, and weeks in the patient copying of microscopic rock sections in water- colours. Effectual measures of police were taken to... ...id to have done. This belief fell in very happily with that disposition to funk a crisis, that vulgar dread of vulgar action which one must regretfull...

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...it is impossible for us to under- take a joint arrangement. ANN. [in a low musical voice] Mamma— MRS WHITEFIELD. [hastily] Now, Ann, I do beg you not ... ...er for the day. Go as you please until morning. The Brigands disperse into groups lazily. Some go into the cave. Others sit down or lie down to sleep ... ...s is genuine devotion, Henry. You should re- spect it. STRAKER. [fiercely] Funk, more likely. MENDOZA. [springing to his feet] Funk! Y oung man: I com... ... clarionet turning this tune into infinite sadness: (Here there is another musical staff.) The yellowish pallor moves: there is an old crone wandering... ... to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. THE DEVIL. On the rocks, most likely. DON JUAN. Pooh! which ship goes oftenest on the rocks o... ...friend, let us hasten to my palace and celebrate your arrival with a grand musical service. THE STATUE. With pleasure: you’re most kind. THE DEVIL. Th...

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...te could, of course, surrender no part of its fundamen- tal principles—the rock on which it stands—and could pur- sue no other aims than those which h... ...first, and better ones after.” “And when will the time come?” “The rocket will go off and fizzle out, perhaps. The peas- ants are not very fon... ...d of Grushenka in a sort of rapture. She held out her hand with a charming musical, nervous little laugh, watched the “sweet young lady,” and obviousl... ... turned away, wringing his hands. Grushenka ran out of the house, laughing musically. Katerina Ivanovna went into a fit of hysterics. She sobbed, ... ... ran away uphill towards Mihailovsky Street. They all shouted: “Aha, he is funking, he is running away. Wisp of tow!” “You don’t know what a beast... ...e means it only too seriously, though he is a buffoon. He stands on a firm rock, too, he stands on his sensuality though after we are thirty, indeed, ... ...l!” Ivan cried, his face working with anger, “Why are you always in such a funk for your life? All my brother Dmitri’s threats are only hasty words an... ...e justice’s, they brought the goose, too. The fellow was crying in a great funk, simply blubbering like a woman. And the farmer kept shouting that you... ... the witnesses for the defence and for the prosecution were separated into groups by the President, and whether it was arranged to call them in a cert...