{"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNational Review\u003c\/em\u003e online\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDigital Barbarism, \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling novelist Mark Helprin (\u003cem\u003eWinter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e) 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, \u003cem\u003eDigital Barbarism \u003c\/em\u003eprovides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.\u003c\/p\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 December 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52696934383923,"sku":"9780061733123","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UU9LZDJnbU43cTM3V0NTMlhyMTRmdz09.webp?v=1763124799","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/digital-barbarism-a-writers-manifesto-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}