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de, 217

Motion picture industry, 37

Moynihan, Pat, 89

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 29, 80

Multimedia, 14–15

Music, xiii, 6, 8, 52, 70, 78, 160, 204

DVD copying, 38

free CDs, 66–67

record companies, 36–39

“sharing,” 38, 39

theft of, 39, 67

Mussolini, Benito, 194, 196

N

Narcissism, 195, 208

Nast, Thomas, 162

Newspapers, 41, 98, 106

New Testament, 105

Newton, Isaac, 138

The New Yorker, 57

New York Public Library, 156

New York Review of Books, 106

New York Times, 26, 43, 44, 74, 77, 125, 139

New York Times Book Review, 131

New Zealand, copyright law in, 127

Nobel Prize, 92

Norway, copyright law in, 128

Nuclear weapons, 10–11

anxiety about, 21

first nuclear strike, 11

nytimes.com, 75

O

O’Connor, Flannery, 198

Offices, digital, 2

Olivier, Laurence, 90

Oxford History Faculty Board, 53

P

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 21

Paper and ink, 88, 158

Paradise Lost (Milton), 111

Pasternak, Boris, 50

Patent, versus copyright, 132–133, 138

Patience, 7

Pearson Education, 38

Perot, Ross, 215

The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 119

Plagiarism, 134–135, 209

Plath, Sylvia, 28, 68

Poetry, 68–69

Politics, 89, 90, 171–172, 206, 212–213, 215

democracy and, 173

expectations, 96

Porcellian (Harvard), 183

Portugal, copyright law in, 128

Posen, Barry, 51

Powell’s, 116

Printing press, 151–152

Printing/publishing, 151–152

Print-on-demand publishing, 158

Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, 51

Property ownership, 165–181

compared to copyright, 44–45

defense of, 181

definition, 76

as guarantor of liberty, 168

physical versus intellectual, 128

Public Citizen, 204

Public discourse, 59

Public domain, 28–29, 156, 201. See also Copyright

Public Knowledge, 204, 205

Public opinion, 206

Pynchon, Thomas, 78

Q

Quran, 105

R

Radio, 213

Random House, 156

Reading, 22, 41

books, 5–6, 17

decline in, 202

literacy, 43

voluntary, 208

Record companies, 36–39

“Reproof Deserved, or, After the Lecture” (Betjeman), 80

Revenue, 46. See also Taxes from copyright, 111

royalties, 47, 51, 74, 78, 113, 158

A River Runs Through It (Maclean), 164

Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe), 119

Roth, Philip, 114

Royalties, 47, 51, 74, 78, 113, 158

Rushdie, Salman, 75

Russia, copyright law in, 128

S

Satie, Erik, 80

Schlesinger, Arthur, 89

Schumann, Robert, 80

SEC. See Securities and Exchange Commission

Second World War, 192, 196

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 29

“Semantic Web technology,” 64

Seward, William H., 59–60

Sex, 17

Shakespeare, William, 179, 194

Sharpton, Al, 166

Signet Society (Harvard), 183

Silent Spring (Carson), 105

Silicon Valley, xiii, 205

Sinatra, Frank, 24

Skull and Bones (Yale), 182

Smith, Kate, 52

Social contract, 173

Socialism, 168

Social Security, 81

Social theorists, 185

Software, piracy, 38, 214

A Soldier of the Great War (Helprin), 113

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), 120, 125–126, 127, 139, 140

Sports, 94–95

Star Wars, 164

Statute of Queen Anne (1709), 124, 127

Stevens, Justice, 115

Story, Joseph, 124

Sweden, copyright law in, 128

Switzerland, copyright law in, 128

T

Tartakovsky, Joseph, 87

Taubman, Arnold, 24

Taxes, 81, 86, 87, 171–172. See also Revenue

versus copyright, 114

taxpayers and, 175–176

Technology, 184

“early adapters,” 186–188

Television, 213

Terrorism, 145–147

Theology, 171

Think tank, 83

TIAA-CREF, 174, 177

Time magazine, 57–58

Title 17 of the United States Code, 138–139

Tolstoy, Leo, 140, 164

Top Quadrant, 64

“The Triumph of Death” (Brueghel), 98

Twain, Mark, 45, 75, 112

U

Universal Music Publishing Group, 204

U.S. Congress, 203, 205, 206

U.S. Constitution, 28, 30, 123

copyright provision of, 43, 125

Founders, 13, 130, 132, 203

Framers, 29, 44, 131

free speech, 185

language and intent of, 43–44

U.S. Copyright Act of 1998, 128

U.S. Department of Education, 208

U.S. Supreme Court, 125, 203

V

Verne, Jules, 149

“The Veteran Returns to His Fields” (Homer), 97

Virtual reality, 15

W

War, 11, 196–197, 200

War and Peace (Tolstoy), 140, 164

War of Independence, 192

Washington, George, 96, 103

Washington Post, 163, 187

WEbook, 163

Wells, H. G., 149

White House, 102

Wikipedia, 64–66

compared to an encyclopedia, 65

Wikis, 62–63, 73–74, 87, 128

Wilson, Woodrow, 21

Winter’s Tale (Helprin), 142, 144

Words, versus images, 10

World Bank, 156

Writer’s block, 163

Writing, 10, 21–22, 53–54, 57, 71

analysis of, 40–41

anonymity, 65

with pen and paper, 5

plagiarism, 134–135, 209

as a profession, 83

Y

Yale University, 182

Yeats, William Butler, 107, 197–198

About the Author

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.

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ALSO BY MARK HELPRIN

Freddy and Fredericka

The Pacific and Other Stories

Memoir from Antproof Case

A Soldier of the Great War

Winter’s Tale

Ellis Island and Other Stories

Refiner’s Fire

A Dove of the East

For Children

Swan Lake

A City in Winter

The Veil of Snows

(all with illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg)

Credits

Jacket design by The Designworks Group, Tim Green

Copyright

Parts of this book originally appeared in the New York Times (chapter two); The Claremont Review of Books (chapter two); and Forbes ASAP (chapters one and six).

DIGITAL BARBARISM. Copyright © 2009 by Mark Helprin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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