Digital Barbarism - A Writer's Manifesto

Informationen zum Autor Mark Helprin was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford and served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner"s Fire, Winter"s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia. Klappentext Mark Helprin anticipated thathis 2007 New York Times op-edpiece about the extension of theterm of copyright would be receivedquietly. instead, within a week, thearticle had generated 750,000angry comments. shocked by hisyoung critics’ breathtaking senseof entitlement and appalled by thebreadth, speed, and illogic of theirarguments, Helprin realized howdrastically different this generationwas from those before it. theCreative Commons movement andthe copyright abolitionists havebeen educated with a modern biastoward collaboration, which hasled them to denigrate individualefforts. Digital Barbarism is Helprin’scogent, powerful, and passionateresponse to those whose selfishdesire to “stick it” to the “greedy”corporate interests controlling thedistribution of intellectual propertyundermines not just the possibilityof an independent literary culturebut threatens the future of civilizationitself. Zusammenfassung “A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” — National Review online   In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin ( Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War ) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections. ...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Helprin, Helprin Mark
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2010
• EAN: 9780061733123
• ISBN: 978-0-06-173312-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Intellectual Property / Trademark, LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright, Society and culture: general, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Policy / Cultural Policy, LAW: Intellectual Property / Copyright, LAW: Intellectual Property / Trademark