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A Writer's Manifesto
Harper
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 0061733113
EAN: 9780061733116
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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