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| | AOL: Copyleftists: Form and Action In the Network Environment |
 | | These successfully packaged "brand-name" identities, whether they be novelists, historians, cultural critics or outrageous social commentators, all depend on the in-place copyright laws for their survival, as do the legions of workers in the publishing industry that produce and distribute their work FOR them. |
 | | The notion of a writer becoming an online publisher and/or cyborg-narrator whose public domain narrative environment is free and open to public viewing 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from any Net-connected computer in the world, does not fit into the mainstream publishing industry's production/distribution model. |
 | | A problem, though, arises, when almost all of our narrative artists, cultural and social critics, historians, etc., play this game, when co-optation by the mainstream is equated with a "become a media-celeb or perish" goals-oriented writing strategy. |
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