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The idealist : Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the Internet
- Title
- The idealist : Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the Internet / Justin Peters.
- Author
- Peters, Justin
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7194 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- x, 337 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A smart, lively history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society--and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons--from Slate correspondent Justin Peters. Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz's life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz's life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information. In vivid, accessible prose, The Idealist situates Swartz in the context of other "data moralists" past and present, from lexicographer Noah Webster to ebook pioneer Michael Hart to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the process, the book explores the history of copyright statutes and the public domain; examines archivists' ongoing quest to build the "library of the future"; and charts the rise of open access, copyleft, and other ideologies that have come to challenge protectionist IP policies. Peters also breaks down the government's case against Swartz and explains how we reached the point where federally funded academic research came to be considered private property, and downloading that material in bulk came to be considered a federal crime. The Idealist is an important investigation of the fate of the digital commons in an increasingly corporatized Internet, and an essential look at the impact of the free culture movement on our daily lives and on generations to come"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7194
- ISBN
- 9781476767727
- 1476767726
- LCCN
- 2015044638
- OCLC
- 2015044638
- Author
- Peters, Justin, author.
- Title
- The idealist : Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the Internet / Justin Peters.
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2016.
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
- Research Call Number
- ZA3270 .P47JFE 16-7194