Digital Barbarism Mark Helprin (grave mercy .txt) 📖

May 20, 2007. The texts of the two pieces are similar except for some stylistic changes made by the Times and an example or two that ran in the Claremont Review of Books and not the Times. The piece was syndicated by the Times in the International Herald Tribune and other places where the editors exercised their prerogative of changing the title, and may have made editorial changes to the text without the author’s knowledge.

4. Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 571.

5. Should Authors Hold Copyrights Forever?” gawker.com/news/ask-an-expert, May 24, 2007.

6. Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford, Portland Papers, Report of the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, IV. p. 625.

7. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2001, Washington, D.C., Tables 1137, 1139, 1140. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2008, Washington, D.C., Tables 1107, 1109, 1096, 1111, 990.

8. Matthew Humphries, “Piracy of Books on the Increase,” geek.com, July 3, 2008.

9. Edward McCoyd, quoted in Matthew Humphries, “Piracy of Books on the Increase.” geek. com, July 3, 2008.

10. James Boyle, “Smarter than Jefferson?” in Financial Times, ft.com, May 21, 2007.

11. “Copyright Without End, Amen,” in The Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, chronicle.com, May 21, 2007.

12. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright…Using Copied Ideas and a Near-Total Misunderstanding of Property,” Section 1, Techdirt, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

13. Posting No. 12 in reply to Mike Nizza, “To the Editor: Please See Wiki,” The Lede, thelede. blogs, nytimes.com, May 21, 2007.

14. Posting 3:41 in “Oh no you didn’t,” Voice of Reason, missnemesis.blogspot.com, May 24, 2007.

15. Comment by “Peep,” in Matthew Yglesias, “Copyright Forever,” Atlantic Online, atlantic.com, May 21, 2007.

16. Barry Posen, “Command of the Commons,” International Security, Summer 2003, p. 5.

17. Captain James H. Patton Jr., USN (Ret), “Dominance,” Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, June 2008.

18. Hon. Robert F. Gates, Secretary of Defense, Speech at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, April 21, 2008.

19. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.

20. Letter to the author from Edwin Frank, The New York Review of Books, May 21, 2007.

21. “New Home for History Faculty,” in “University News,” Oxford Today, Vol. 20, No. 1, Michaelmas 2007, p. 9.

22. John C. Briggs, “Statecraft and Wordcraft,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2007, page 31.

23. Frank Ahrens, “An Egghead With Bold Threads,” Washington Post, July 14, 2008.

24. “Copyright Without End, Amen,” in The Wired Campus; Chronicle of Higher Education, chronicle.com, May 21, 2007.

25. Courtois et al., The Black Book of Communism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), p.151: caption, plate 10.

26. “Against Perpetual Copyright,” Section 1, Lawrence Lessig Wiki, wiki.lessig.org, May 24, 2007.

27. Mike Nizza, “To the Editor: Please See Wiki,” The Lede, thelede.blogs, nytimes.com, May 21, 2007.

28. Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Write Your Own Response To Mark Helprin’s Perpetual Copyright Op-Ed,” sivacracy.net, May 21, 2007.

29. Mike Nizza, "To the Editor: Please See Wiki,” thelede.blogs, nytimes.com, May 21, 2007.

30. Boyle, “Smarter than Jefferson?”

31. “Against Perpetual Copyright,” Section 4, Lawrence Lessig Wiki, wiki.lessig.org, May 24, 2007.

32. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 20, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

33. Comment by “Anon,” in Matthew Yglesias, “Copyright Forever,” Atlantic Online, atlantic.com, May 21, 2007.

34. Lynne Jolitz, in Mike Nizza, “To the Editor: Please See Wiki,” The Lede, thelede.blogs, nytimes. com, May 21, 2007.

35. William Barber, in “I Wrote It. Is It Mine For All Time?” nytimes.com, May 20, 2007.

36. “Against Perpetual Copyright,” Section 3, Lawrence Lessig Wiki, wiki.lessig.org, May 24, 2007.

37. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 27, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

38. “Bridging the Intellectual Property Divide,” in BC, Blogcritics Magazine, blogcritics.org, May 22, 2007.

39. “On the Helprin Reply: Wow,” in Lessig Blog, lessig.org, May 31, 2007.

40. Boyle, “Smarter than Jefferson?”

41. Mark Draughn, “Eternal Copyright,” in windypundit.com, May 27, 2007.

42. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 12, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

43. John Betjeman, “Reproof Deserved, or, After the Lecture,” in Collected Poems (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971), p.358.

44. Rev. Michael David Knowles, “Macaulay, Thomas Babington,” in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed.

45. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech in the House of Commons, February 5, 1841, Hansard, 3d Series, Vol. LVI, pp. 344–357, in Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, M. P., Vol 1, (New York: C.B. Norton, 1853), p. 390.

46. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 2, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

47. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 25, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

48. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

49. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 10, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

50. Comment by “Constantine,” in Matthew Yglesias, “Copyright Forever,” Atlantic Online, the atlantic.com, May 21, 2007.

51. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” Section 36, techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

52. “Arguing for Infinite Copyright,” techdirt.com, May 21, 2007.

53. C. P. Cavafy, “The Inkwell,” in The Complete Poems of Cavafy, p. 191.

54. Howard Daniel, Hieronymus Bosch (New York: Hyperion, 1947).

55. Marlborough’s Letter to Godolphin, August 30, 1703, in Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One, p. 683.

56. Boyle, “Smarter than Jefferson?”

57. Samuel Johnson, as quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. Christopher Hibbert (London: Penguin), p. 209.

58. Samuel Johnson, as quoted in Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, p. 47.

59. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, p. 82.

60. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech in the House of Commons, February 5, 1841, Hansard, 3d Series, Vol. LVI, pp. 344–357, in Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, M.P., Vol 1, p.389.

61. Ibid., pp. 392, 393.

62. Ibid., p. 393.

63. Ibid., p. 395.

64. Ibid., p. 397.

65. Ibid., p. 394.

66. Ibid., p. 394.

67. Supreme Court of the United States, No. 01–618, Eric Eldred, et al., Petitioners v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, January 15, 2003, Breyer, J., dissenting, IIA.

68. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, p. 391.

69. Supreme Court of the United States, No. 01–618, Eric Eldred, et al., Petitioners v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, January 15, 2003, Stevens, J., dissenting, VII.

70. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., revised, see under “Monopoly” (English language italics supplied.)

71. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech in the House of Commons, February 5, 1841, Hansard, 3rd series, Vol. LVI, pp. 344–357, in Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, M.P., Vol 1, p. 392.

72. Ibid.,