{"product_id":"9780061733123","title":"Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHelprin, Mark\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBroadside Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/23\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\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","brand":"Broadside Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796916621567,"sku":"9780061733123","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780061733123_s600x595.jpg?v=1779901361","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780061733123","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}