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In Defense of The Book
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| Digital Barbarism is not as much a defense of copyright as
| it is an attack upon a distortion of culture that has
| become a false savior in an age of many false saviors.
| Despite its lack of mechanical perfections, humanity, as
| stumbling and awkward as it is, is far superior to the
| machine. It always has been and always will be, and this
| conviction must never be surrendered. But surrender these
| days is incremental, seems painless, and comes so quietly
| that warnings are drowned in silence.
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http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=OWUzNTRjMzZlN2NkN2ZhYjFkZTRiM2RjZDMzNDc1NmM=
Does Digital Kill the Poetry of Proust?
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| While on the one hand the digital revolution is bringing a
| whole new range of access to information, it is also
| killing nostalgia and stopping us from peering behind ideas
| of great thinkers.
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http://www.thomascrampton.com/social-media/proust-internet-memory-social-media/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proust-internet-memory-social-media
Recent:
Lord Kames Explains Why Copyright Is Not Property... In 1773
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| I've posted the full text of Lord Kames's opinion in the important
| Scottish Sessions case of Hinton v. Donaldson from 1773. This was the
| case that rejected for Scotland, by a vote of 11-to-1, the theory of
| "common law copyright", that authors (meaning, in practice, publishers)
| had a perpetual copyright, at common law, of their writings. It was
| followed a few months later by the English House of Lords's decision in
| Donaldson v. Beckett, in which the English Lords rejected just as
| forcefully the claim that authors had perpetual copyright under the
| common law of England.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090901/0318106070.shtml
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