{"product_id":"9780061868320_digital-barbarism","title":"Digital Barbarism","description":"\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\u003e \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 forceful defense of civilization itself, Helprin dissects the modern assault on creative work and reveals:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Defense of Copyright:\u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching argument for the legal protections that shield authors, artists, and innovators from the collectivist forces of the digital age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Critique of Digital Barbarism:\u003c\/b\u003e An incisive look at how the degradation of language and thought in our modern technological era threatens the foundations of culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProperty as Liberty:\u003c\/b\u003e A reclamation of Jeffersonian principles, exploring why the right to private property—including intellectual property—is an indispensable pillar of freedom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Case Against \"Creative Commons\":\u003c\/b\u003e A rational and witty counter-argument to the popular movement that seeks to dismantle the hard-won rights of the individual creator.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mark Helprin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889868853397,"sku":"9780061868320","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x145_53762a17-2297-4c0a-821f-b5771e82c775.jpg?v=1769490702","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780061868320_digital-barbarism","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}