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“The modern great State is harmful from its vastness and the resulting sense of individual helplessness. The citizen who is out of sympathy with the aims of the State, unless he is man of rare gifts, cannot hope to persuade the State which seem to him better. Even in a democracy, all questions except a very few are decided by a small number of officials and eminent men; and even the few questions which are left to the popular vote are decided by a diffused mass-psychology, not by individual initiative. This is especially noticeable in a country like the United States, where, in spite of democracy, most men have a sense of almost complete impotence in regard to all large issues. In so vast a country the popular will is like one of the forces of nature, and seems nearly as much outside the control of any one man. This state of things leads, not only in America but in all large States, to something of weariness and discouragement that we associate with the Roman Empire. Modern States, as opposed to the small city States of ancient Greece or medieval Italy, leave little room for initiative, and fail to develop in most men any sense of ability to control their political destinies. The few men who achieve power in such States are men of abnormal ambition and thirst for domination, combined with skill of cajolery and subtlety in negotiation. the rest are dwarfed by knowledge of their impotence.”
There's a whole issue around alienating rights. It seems pretty clear that the acquisition of rights to a creative work has to carry a corresponding obligation of agency. If I buy the rights to your work, I have an agent relationship to you, and that means I must always act in your best interests. Clearly, preventing your creative works from being available is not acting in your best interests, so a record company that failed to make catalogue they owned available wouldn't be able to act this way.
On the other hand, it could be said that any making available a creative work not your own carries an implied agency. So if I file share, I am obligated to ensure that the artist benefits. The value can be negiotiated between artist and agents ie record company. If a record company contracts a low value to be paid to the artist on each sale they act as agents for, they are in effect making it less expensive for someone to fileshare that product. Their best protection against filesharing becomes paying the artist a decent amount.
A record store would carry that obligation, meaning that they would have to remit a percentage of their sales to the artist or to some umbrella organization that would manage these revenues on behalf of artists.
This would leave the record companies free to profit to whatever degree they were able to, by setting up beneficial contracts to act as agents for the artist. In the jurisdiction that the agreement covered, any copying of the work would carry the cost as agreed for that domain between the artist and the record company. These costs could be partly reciprocal: the artist would owe the agent a percentage of their revenue from sources not derived from sale by the contracted agent, allowing the agent to be insured against the artist end-running them.
The same mechanism would cover resale of works, possibly prorated by the number of copies in existence. This would mean that creators of unique works, like visual artists would benefit from the increasing value of their works, but that the cost of reselling works of which there were many copies would approach zero. It would also discourage intermediaries, people or organizations that act as middle men in distributing product, since each transfer of product would carry the same costs. Copying for backup, use on other devices and so on would be exempt, since no new user is created.
All of this comes about by agency arrangements, and rights and oh-so-manipulable royalties become irrelevant. This means that over time, we should prevent artists of any kind from selling rights to original works, in the same way that selling your land to a foreign sovereign power doesn't imply that that land is then a part of the other country. We have the right to buy and sell land, which is our patrimony, to benefit from use of it and allow others to benefit from it, but not to alienate the underlying sovereignty of it. And culture is much like land: artists should be treated as custodians, not sellers of it, by prohibiting alienation of rights.
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Today is the birthday of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Very Hungry Caterpillar kid's book published by Eric Carle was written 40 years ago today. I can't believe how the time went by so fast. This caterpillar book is still one of America's favorites. Kids love how the caterpillar eats his way through all the fruits, ends up with a stomachache, and turns into a gorgeous butterfly. If you never heard of or read the Very Hungry Caterpillar I highly suggest you do so. This is one great book for kids. Make a learning lesson by having your child count the fruits, teach them how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, days of the week, and of course nutrition. Your child will make this book one of their favorites. I loved this book and being that today is the caterpillar's birthday I searched online for some real cute Very Hungry Caterpillar coloring pages, activities, and crafts for your child to enjoy in or out of the classroom.
Dltk-teach.com- On this website your child will be able to make their own very hungry caterpillar out of felt or they can turn the caterpillar into a puppet. Also on this website you will be able to color butterfly coloring pages, leaf coloring pages, fruit coloring pages, and other cute items that were mentioned in the book. If your child doesn't want to color then maybe they would enjoy making a butterfly craft, caterpillar craft, or a food craft. DLTK offers 19 free butterfly coloring pages, 20 fruit coloring pages, 8 leaf coloring pages, 1 big caterpillar coloring page, 1 Monarch Chrysalis coloring page, and 1 Monarch butterfly coloring page.
Lucygardens.com- This site offers free butterfly coloring pages, garden coloring pages and caterpillar coloring pages. For the caterpillar coloring pages you get to choose from 8 different stages of the caterpillar. Then for the butterfly you have 9 great looking pages to color. As a bonus your child can also color free garden pages. This site offers a huge variety of pictures to color to celebrate the birthday of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
First-school preschool activities and crafts- This fun website your child can learn the days of the week, the growth stages of the caterpillar, print out C for caterpillar activities, free insect coloring pages, butterfly and moth coloring pages, and make their own colorful caterpillar craft.
Teachingheart.net- Here you can make our own Monarch mini book, color some neat looking butterflies, caterpillar's, fruits, and leafs. Then you can have fun with the caterpillar maze, puzzles, connect the dots, or the caterpillar quiz. After having fun make sure to read the Very Hungry Caterpillar to your child.
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