I read the second article. It didn't help my understanding of Doctorow's position all that much. The problem, as always, is in the details. I want to understan

I read the second article. It didn't help my understanding of Doctorow's position all that much. The problem, as always, is in the details. I want to understand what Doctorow thinks are the essentials of this putative "age-old normative consensus" which he finds so compelling. Just stating that such a thing exists doesn't get me any farther along to understanding the intellectual framework which he wants to use in order to make the trade off between the creator's interests and those of society at large.