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after death, 77, 117
anonymity, 63, 65
control of copyright, 58
false confidence and, 63
guarantors of rights of, 100
history and, 62
rights of, xii, xiv, 58–59, 119, 216
unrestricted access to, 68–69
voice of, xiv
writer’s block, 163
B
Baldwin, Alec, 28
Barbarians, 17–18
Barbarism, 200–217
Barnes & Noble, 116, 120
Beatles, 39
Belgium, copyright law in, 128
Bell Labs, 153
Berkeley, Bishop, 122, 123
Bern Formula, 128
Betjeman, John, 80
Bible, 105
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 156
Bissell, Richard, 89–90
Blackwell Publishing, 156
Blake, William, 80
Blogs, 42, 69, 76, 127
Bonheur, Rosa, 170
Book publishing industry, 37, 55–66, 82, 91, 208
book returns, 156
in the eighteenth century, 131
Books, 5–6, 16, 85
digitized, 156–160, 157
orphan works, 159–160
out-of-print, 158
pricing, 113, 158
profitability of, 157
replaced by electronic books, 152–153
supply and demand, 77–78, 112
titles published, 120
value of, 78
Bosch, Hieronymus, 98
Bourjaily, Vance, 169–170, 174
Boyle, Professor, 105
Brendel, Alfred, 78–79
Breyer, Justice, 114
Briggs John C., 59–60
British Imperial Copyright Bill of 1910, 124
Brueghel, Pieter, 98–99
Buffett, Warren, 67
Bunyan, John, 119
Burton, Richard, 118
Bush, President G. W., 120
C
Carroll, Jeremy, 64
Carson, Rachel, 105
Chamberlain, Neville, 196
Chardin, Teilhard de, 189–190, 197, 198
Cheever, John, 80
Chronicle of Higher Education, 44, 68, 128, 129
Churchill, Winston, 31, 192, 197, 210
Civil War, 192
Clarement Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, 44–45, 87
Clarement Review of Books, 27, 59–60, 138
Cold War, 53, 196
“Command of the Commons” (Posen), 51
Common law, 124
Communism, 168
“Communitarianism,” 54
Community, 181
Computers, literacy of, 14
Convergence, 182–199
Copyright. See also Public domain
as abstract, 129
after death, 117
anti-copyright movement, xiv–xv
anti-cultists, 68
in Austria, 128
in Belgium, 128
Bern Formula, 128
from common law to statute law, 124
compared to property ownership, 44–45
control by authors, 58
defense of, xii
in Denmark, 128
destruction of the system of, 204
duration of, 77
effect on culture, 119
efficiency of, 203
entitlement, 213
expiration of, 45–46, 164
extension of term of, 30, 32–33, 106, 164
fair use, 58, 115
in France, 128
in Germany, 128
in Great Britain, 128
in Greece, 127
heritability of, 47–49
in Holland, 128
in Hungary, 128
in Italy, 127
in Japan, 128
legitimacy of, 33
licensing of, 201
logic of, 75
monopolistic, 59, 69, 115–117, 119, 128, 204
movement against, 213
in New Zealand, 127
in Norway, 128
ownership, 28
versus patent, 132–133, 138
payment for, 201
perpetual, 45, 111
in Portugal, 128
principles of, 113
protection of, 28, 45
provision in the Constitution, 125
revenue, 111
in Russia, 128
in Spain, 128
in Sweden, 128
in Switzerland, 128
taxes and, 114
term, 28, 30, 110, 131, 132
value of, 49–55
violators of, xiii, 119
Copyright Clearance Center, 159
Copyright-Term Extension Act (CTEA; 1998), 125
Coulter, Ann, xii
“Creative Commons,” xiii, 50–55, 62, 67, 180
Crime, 97
Croce, Benedetto, 137
CTEA. See Copyright-Term Extension Act
Culture, 206–207
Arabic, 161
barbarism, 200–217
Christians, 105
communism, 168
cults of antiquity, 183
current, 33
definition of, 20, 214–215
demands of, 96
effect of copyright on, 119
electronic, 64, 88, 143, 184, 195–196
historical, 29–30
of the Internet, 41–42
Jewish, 70, 105, 162, 183, 209
Marxism, 105
Muslims, 105
old versus new, 29
privileged, 161
socialism, 168
D
Daniel, Howard, 99
Das Kapital, 105
Death, 98–99, 193, 197
of author, 117
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 129
Declaration of Independence, 102, 104, 140–141
Deconstructionism, 72
Dee, John, 184
DeFoe, Daniel, 119
De Gaulle, Charles, 19
Democracy, 173
Denmark, copyright law in, 128
Derrida, Jacques, 72
Desktop publishing, 152
Diamond, Neil, 29
Dickinson, Emily, 75, 80
Digibook, 152
Digital age, versus age of brick and iron, 12
Diplomacy (Kissinger), 113
Disney, Walt, 126, 127
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 50
Dos Passos, John, 80
Dubliners ( Joyce), 164
Duke of Marlborough, 107
Dunaway, Faye, 89, 178
Duncan, Isadora, 21
E
East India Company, 116
E-book, 152
Economics, 112
rationalization of, 82
Education, 13–14, 53
academic modus operandi, 161
Arabic, 161
contemporary, 98
Eichmann, Adolf, 209
El Al, 146
Eldred v. Ashcroft, 114, 115, 125
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 204–205
Electronic media, 32, 88
alienation and failure of, 152
digital music, 67
e-mail, 3, 36
Internet. See Internet
loneliness, 212
research and, 64
E-mail, 3, 36
Encyclopedia, compared to Wikipedia, 65
Enlightenment, 199
Epstein, Jason, 156
“Everything That Rises Must Converge” (O’Connor), 198
F
Fair use, 58, 115
Federalist, 124
Finance industry, 29
Financial Times, 106
First World War, 192, 196
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 91
FNAC (Paris), 116
France, copyright law in, 128
Franken, Al, xii
Franklin, Benjamin, 29
Freedom, 171
Freelancers, 56
Free markets, 169
Free speech, 185
French Revolution, 103
Frome, Ethan, 32
G
The Garden Party (Mansfield), 73
Gates, Bill, 28, 67
Germany, copyright law in, 128
Gibson, Mel, 33
Ginsburg, Madam Justice, 125
Gmail, 159
Golding, William, 33
Goldman Sachs, 29, 211
Goldwater, Barry, 165
Google, xiii, 31, 126, 160, 204, 206
Gore, Al, 154
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 78
Great Britain, copyright law in, 128
Great War, 197
Greece, copyright law in, 127
H
Haig, Christopher, 53
Hamilton, Alexander, 29, 131
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 106
Hardy, Thomas, 197
Harvard University, 89, 178, 182–183
Hawkins, John, 108
Hazlett, William, 153
Heidegger, Martin, 72
Hemings, Sally, 103
Hemingway, Ernest, 165
Hermeticism, 183, 189, 193
History, recording of, 9
Hitler, Brittany, 118
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 196
Hogan’s Goat (Alfred), 89
Holland, copyright law in, 128
Holocaust, 196
Homer, 46
Homer, Winslow, 97
House of Commons, 106
How To Be A Domestic Goddess (Lawson), 195
Hugo, Victor, 113
Humans, 25
aging, 25
immortality and, 193, 194
individualism, 53, 55
individualism versus community, 181
narcissism, 195, 208
nature of, 136, 150, 171, 184, 194, 195, 199
patience of, 7
physical constraints, 8
Hungary, copyright law in, 128
I
I-book, 152
Ideas, 29, 43, 139
Iliad, 46, 192
Images, versus words, 10
Immortality, 193
Imperial Copyright Bill (1910), 127
Individualism, 53
Individual voice, xiv, 61–62, 63, 83, 99–100, 209
Information
availability of, 201
centralization of, 204
quality versus quantity, 10
Intellectual property rights, xiii, 138
abolishment of, 160
copies of, 123
litigation and, 205
versus physical, 128
International Security, 51
Internet, xiii, 31, 33, 64, 138, 156, 160, 171, 176, 185, 188, 201, 215
culture, 41–42
as a research tool, 64
iPhone, 187–188, 201
Italy, copyright law in, 127
J
Japan, copyright law in, 128
Jarrell, Randall, 80
Jefferson, Thomas, 29, 101–141, 175
Johnson, Samuel, 80, 111, 192
Jones, Thomas, 174
Jovanovich, William, 153, 154
Joyce, James, 164
Justice, 49, 180, 181
K
Kennedy, President John F., 102
Kiernan, Fran, 57
King, Martin Luther, 54
Kissinger, Henry, 89, 113
Knowles, Reverend Michael David, 84–85
L
Language, 6–7, 16, 60–61, 70, 146
barbarism in, 17
contemporary, 31
Law, 121–130
Lawson, Nigella, 195
Leary, Timothy, 89
Legislation, 114, 124
British Imperial Copyright Bill of 1910, 124
Copyright-Term Extension Act (CTEA; 1998), 125
Imperial Copyright Bill (1910), 127
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), 120, 125–126, 127, 139, 140
Statute of Queen Anne (1709), 124, 127
U.S. Copyright Act of 1998, 128
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 138 Les Misérables (Hugo), 113
Lessig, Lawrence, 125, 139, 163–164
Letters, via postal, 4–5, 7
Liberty, 165–181
Library of Congress, 120, 154, 194 Life, 118
Lilly Foundation, 113
Lincoln, Abraham, 59–60, 87, 96
Literacy, 43, 208
of computers, 14
Literature, 10, 59, 196
ancient view of, 137
literary criticism, 71–72, 89–90
The Lord of the Flies (Golding), 33
Louis IX, 179–180
Love, 136, 181
Lowell, Robert, 89
Luddites, 143
M
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 84–85, 101–141
on copyright, 106, 113, 204
Mackenzie, Rachel, 57
Maclean, Norman, 164
Macmillan, Harold, 47
Madison, James, 131, 175
Mansfield, Katherine, 73
Marsh, Jeff, 156
Marx, Karl, 121
Marxism, 161, 169, 192
McPherson, Isaac, 132–133, 134
Media, electronic, 32
Mein Kampf, 118
Meir, Golda, 24
Melville, Herman, 75, 80, 140, 178
Microsoft, 51, 126
Miller, Arthur, 129
Milton, John, 111
Moby Dick (Melville), 140, 178
Monopoly, 59, 69, 115–117, 119, 128, 204
Montaigne, Michel
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