On the Role of Computers in Creativity-Support Systems - Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines - page 110

Task

home
studio

PPB = Home studio

does not
exist

is
required

Ratio
decidendi

is
important

space provided by
the employer

takes most
time

for a musician
practice is important

task1 Intermediate

level

place1

taxpayer
musician

employer place2

task2

Met

Drucker

concert
hall

practice

perform at
concerts concert

violinist

home
studio

Facts

Fig. 6.3 A partial representation of the Drucker case ( Dashed lines means provided by, dotted
lines mean designated space for, and dot-dash lines means performed at. PPB is principal place of
business .)

office, he could not leave his topics and other material safely there. Let us consider
this to be the new case.
With this background, the Cousino case is very similar to the Weissman case (the
new case) and supports a decision against Weismann. When the Drucker case is
applied to the facts of the Weissman case, we also get a decision against Weissman,
because for each task that the college professor had to perform as part of his duties,
there was some place (the shared office) provided by the employer. This situation is
shown in Fig. 6.4 .
However, when the Cousino case is activated, the category suitable space comes
into play. Now we can reinterpret the Drucker using this category to argue that the
decision favored the taxpayer because the employer did not provide any suitable
space to carry out the activity. This reinterpretation of the Drucker case is shown in
Fig. 6.5 .
With this reinterpretation, the Drucker case is rendered similar to the Weissman
case (the new case), and supports a decision in favor of Weissman as shown in
Fig. 6.6 . (See [ 25 ] for details, and also [ 23 ].)
It may seem a small semantic quibble to some readers, but legal arguments often
hinge on such quibbles. There is another example discussed in [ 25 ] that hinges
on introducing the term substantial. We should also add that all the analyses and