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)
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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).
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