iTunes provided an interesting step along the way of this evolution. For prices comparable to those of the prevailing physical medium of CDs and to the inflation-adjusted prices of vinyl, consumers could believe everyone got fair value from the deal. Meanwhile, an industry in panic over declining CD sales could celebrate an arrangement that looked to the consumer like a purchase but looked to the industry like a license. And artists…well, as always, they took what deals they could get to reach an audience, and the most successful could continue to do quite well in that system. They might even be able to afford to hire someone to manage their MySpace.
Some years before the standoff with Spotify, Swift initiated a standoff with Apple, saying she was speaking up not just for herself but other artists. Nobody, except maybe the EU and China, wins standoffs with Apple. Swift won.
e.g. The String Cheese Incident (I actually had one of those, and it cost me a car. But the details are both “too ludicrous for words” and “too offensive for depiction.”)
As already noted, literary convention, which continued more or less in that form through the 19th century and into the earlier 20th. The various crises in faith since then, and lessening interest in classic Greek and Roman mythology, leaves us with more or less empty linguistic references to the figures of Christian myth, and new usages such as “higher power”, “the universe”, “the Goddess”, and “Gaia”.
Decades ago, a German magazine ran a photo of the damage from the bombing of a US embassy—as it was described here. The embassy was huge. It was perfectly plausible that the damage in the photo was confined to what the magazine casually described as “the CIA wing.”
iTunes provided an interesting step along the way of this evolution. For prices comparable to those of the prevailing physical medium of CDs and to the inflation-adjusted prices of vinyl, consumers could believe everyone got fair value from the deal. Meanwhile, an industry in panic over declining CD sales could celebrate an arrangement that looked to the consumer like a purchase but looked to the industry like a license. And artists…well, as always, they took what deals they could get to reach an audience, and the most successful could continue to do quite well in that system. They might even be able to afford to hire someone to manage their MySpace.