Common As Air - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common As Air write by Lewis Hyde. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Common As Air available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech. Thirty years later his son registered the words ‘ I Have a Dream’ as a trademark and successfully blocked attempts to reproduce these four words. Unlike the Gettysburg Address and other famous speeches, ‘ I Have a Dream’ is now private property, even though some the speech is comprised of words written by Thomas Jefferson, a man who very much believed that the corporate land grab of knowledge was at odds with the development of civil society. Exploring the complex intersection between creativity and commerce, Hyde raises the question of how our shared store of art and knowledge might be made compatible with our desire to copyright everything, and questions whether the fruits of creative labour can – or should – be privately owned, especially in the digital age. ‘ In what sense,’ he writes, ‘ can someone own, and therefore control other people’ s access to, a work of fiction or a public speech or the ideas behind a drug?’ Moving deftly between literary analysis, history and biography (from Benjamin Franklin’ s reluctance to patent his inventions to Bob Dylan’ s admission that his early method of songwriting was largely comprised of ‘ rearranging verses to old blues ballads, adding an original line here or there… slapping a title on it’ ), Common As Air is a stirring call-to-arms about how we might concretely legislate for a cultural commons that would simultaneously allow for financial reward and protection from monopoly. Rigorous, informative and riveting, this is a book for anyone who is interested in the creative process.
Common Ground
Common Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Ground write by Molly Bang. This book was released on 1997. Common Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.
Enchanted Air
Enchanted Air - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enchanted Air write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Enchanted Air available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.
Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night
Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night write by Jan Ingenhousz. This book was released on 1779. Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Common Air: A Book of Poetry
The Common Air: A Book of Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Common Air: A Book of Poetry write by Barbara Longstreth Mulkey. This book was released on 2018-09-26. The Common Air: A Book of Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbara Longstreth Mulkey has been editor of the annual equine publication, Who's Who in Horsedom in Lexington, KY, a columnist and society editor for the weekly Pine Bluff News in Arkansas, and poetry editor for the Arkansas Methodist newspaper. She has taught journalism and English, and is the author of three other books of poetry, The Sun's Still On, Flowers In Their Season, and Sharing Christmas. She has also written a 365 page devotional book, With Glory & Honor (with Scripture, original poem, and thought for the day on each), also a collection of essays, stories, and poems entitled ESP, a creative non fiction book, Be Careful What You Wish For, and a novel, Hope Springs Eternal. For nine years she was director of the Arkansas Writers' Conference. In retirement she and her husband, Louis, live in Little Rock, AR.
