In the National Gallery, there is a sequence of paintings by Hogarth: Marriage a la Mode. Because of improvements in printing technology, printers were able to reproduce the hugely popular series and sell them; Hogarth did not get paid. As a consequence, the explanatory signs at the National Gallery say, Parliament passed the first copyright law in 1735. The intersection of a market economy (ironically the series was about the noveau riche of the British economy) with technological innovation created a crisis about what the nature of property rights should be in artistic creation. Fred Carstensen University of Connecticut