{"product_id":"digital-barbarism-a-writers-manifesto-paperback","title":"Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Helprin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--National Review online\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful writer's manifesto, Helprin asks the essential question of our time: what is lost when the rights of the individual are sacrificed for the convenience of the collective?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Defense of Copyright: \u003c\/b\u003e A powerful argument that copyright is not a monopoly or a tax, but a bulwark of civilization essential for protecting the individual voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCritique of Digital Barbarism: \u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching look at how the digital age, with its emphasis on speed and quantity, risks a degradation of thought, language, and the integrity of art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Creative Commons Movement: \u003c\/b\u003e A timely and important attack on the popular movement, revealing the collectivist bias that threatens the legal protections for individual creators.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProperty as Liberty: \u003c\/b\u003e Reclaiming Jefferson, Helprin makes the case that the right of property is not antithetical to virtue but is, in fact, a pillar of ethics, morals, and individual freedom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Helprin anticipated thathis 2007 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eDigital Barbarism\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 7.96 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53058014511328,"sku":"9780061733123","price":16.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/3CWz63NzfX9780061733123.webp?v=1781388863","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/digital-barbarism-a-writers-manifesto-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}