Author: Pascale Chapdelaine File Type: pdf This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the unsettled nature, scope and dynamics of copyright user rights in an increasingly dematerialized environment. Combining a detailed theoretical framework with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive perspective on copyright user rights, exploring the nature of commercial copies of copyright works, of exceptions to copyright infringement, and how they are shaped to a large extent by traditional concepts of private law (e.g. property, goods, services, sales, and licences). Using property and contract law and theory, it addresses the competing interests of copyright holders and users in the same object, and points out the double standards in how the rights of copyright holders and copyright users are dealt with. It argues that the property component of user rights has been largely neglected and needs to be brought to the fore, to give the protection that users deserve, without neglecting the rights users should have as they increasingly experience copyright works through services. With the onset of an increasingly digital age, it emphasises how traditional concepts of private law need to adapt for adequately dealing with the dematerialization of copies of copyright works and user rights. It proposes a clearer view on the justification and nature of user rights, with possible gradations of powers for users, and suggests how courts and legislatures may address contract terms that weaken user rights. This book provides vital tools for law- and policy-makers worldwide who seek to achieve the proper balance between the competing rights and interests of copyright holders, copyright users, and the public domain. **

Author: Marjorie Grene File Type: pdf Originally published in 1969. Since the seventeenth century the kind of knowledge afforded by mathematical physics has come more and more to furnish mankind with an ideal for all knowledge. The ideal also carries with it a new conception of the nature of things all things whatsoever are held to be intelligible ultimately in terms of the laws of inanimate nature. This reductionist formula can be overcome only by the fundamental rethinking of our philosophical premises. To contribute towards thsi rethinking was the aim of the Study Group at whose meetings this collection originated. The essayists come from a wide range of disciplines but all want to address the conflict in our culture. The first part consists of discussions of various fundamental problems in the sciences. There are essays on the inter-relation of physics and psychology, on the possible reduction of biology to physics and chemistry, on new approaches to experimental psychology, against the possibility of giving a purely factual account of social and political life, and for a fundamental reform of our concept of responsibility. The second section of the book suggests lines of philosophical inquiry which might help to resolve the epistemological and ethical problems arising at the foundations of physics, biology, psychology and the social sciences. **

Author: María Odette Canivell Arzú File Type: pdf In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two literary figures became paladins of their respective nations. Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly the figment of a writers (or many different writers) pen that astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market (for internal and external consumption) both literary creations, exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them to transform them into myths and political symbols of their respective nations. **Review Heroes today are in short supply, so this book by Ma. Odette Canivell should be celebrated as she takes us back to two of the greatest heroes ever invented where myth and reality are hopelessly intertwined. Many might think it difficult to say anything new about these two protean characters, but Ma. Odette Canivell succeeds through a novel approach that compares and contrasts not only the two heroes themselves but also their evolution in literature. (Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Honorary Professor, Institute of the Americas, University College London) Maria Canivell turns what could be a simple comparatist literary history into a fiercely passionate vindication of Don Quixote as a national hero, by dint of his political skepticism, blind self-perception, and philosophical streak. In her reckoning, the better-known and existentially secure King Arthur takes second place, precisely due to his certainty about human affairs. Throughout this well-considered and immaculate study surfaces a manifesto, an act of advocacy. If Don Quixote had an attorney, it would be Canivell. Ranging from Heidegger to Mitsubishi, Otto Rank to Disney, this authors study argues that heroes are marketed as much as they are created. Along the way, the histories of Spain and England are examined as fashioning these two heroes who, paradoxically, serve as precursors of those nations. (Johnny Payne, Mount Saint Marys University) Energetic and thought-provoking. I have always thought that the Spaniards and the English (I choose these terms carefully and deliberately) are each the others favorite historical rival and Other. It was an inspired idea to compare two such great national fictional heroes, Alonso and Arthur, and Maria Canivells analysis brings out not only the contrasts between these popular characters but, even more significantly, between the two countries that gave them life and still revere them. (Gerald Martin, University of Pittsburgh) In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination, Maria Odette Canivell presents a fascinating account of the evolution of national heroes who embody the traits to which their respective nations aspired, and who in doing so affect the life, perception, and imaginations of the nations they serve. The figure of King Arthur emerged from dim history into legend and literature to represent virtues of the monarchy and eventually British national pride, tradition, and optimism. The entirely literary figure of Don Quijote represented a great nation in decline, suffering from the loss of empire and economic hardship, desiring to fight reality with dreams. Canivells comparison of these characters combines meticulous scholarship and a deep love of her subject to produce a lively and informative study. (Robert Hoskins, Professor Emeritus, James Madison University) About the Author Maria Odette Canivell Arzu is former associate professor of English and interdisciplinary studies at James Madison University.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel File Type: pdf span orphans 2 widows 2The second part of Hegels Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in outline. Translated, and with an introduction by, MJ Petry.span