Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto - Rilegato

Helprin, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0061733113 ISBN 13: 9780061733116

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2009

Riassunto

Draws on the philosophies of Thomas Jefferson to present an argument in defense of private property in the age of digital culture, sharing his observations about how significant differences in generation values has compromised ownership rights and copyright protections. 38,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

World-renowned novelist Mark Helprin 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.

Mark Helprin anticipated that his 2007 New York Times op-ed piece about the extension of the term of copyright would be received quietly, if not altogether overlooked. Within a week, the article had accumulated 750,000 angry comments. He was shocked by the breathtaking sense of entitlement demonstrated by the commenters, and appalled by the breadth, speed, and illogic of their responses.

Helprin realized how drastically different this generation is from those before it. The Creative Commons movement and the copyright abolitionists, like the rest of their generation, were educated with a modern bias toward collaboration, which has led them to denigrate individual efforts and in turn fueled their sense of entitlement to the fruits of other people’s labors. More important, their selfish desire to “stick it” to the greedy corporate interests who control the production and distribution of intellectual property undermines not just the possibility of an independent literary culture but threatens the future of civilization itself.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061733113
• ISBN 13: 9780061733116
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232