LEADER 03653cam a2200457 i 4500001 18871807 005 20160321152951.0 008 151125s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 003 hubpceuo 010 2015044638 020 9781476767727 (hardback) 020 |z9781476767741 (ebk) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 ZA3270 |b.P47 2016 082 00 004.67/80973 |223 084 TEC056000SOC052000LAW050010 |2bisacsh 100 1 Peters, Justin, |eauthor. 242 |yeng 245 14 The idealist : |bAaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the Internet / |cJustin Peters. 246 10 Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the Internet 250 First Scribner hardcover edition. 260 New York : |bScribner, |c2016. 300 x, 337 pages ; |c24 cm 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index. 520 "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"-- 600 10 Swartz, Aaron, |d1986-2013. 650 0 Information commons |zUnited States. 650 0 Freedom of information |zUnited States. 650 0 Intellectual freedom |zUnited States. 650 0 Copyright |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Internet |zUnited States. 906 7 |bcbc |corignew |d1 |eecip |f20 |gy-gencatlg 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6004_670000000000000_80973_PET |70 |8REF |980418OSA |bOSA |d2016-03-21 |eOSA |l0 |o004.67/80973 PET |r2016-03-21 |w2016-03-21 |yBK |cReference 920 01 BY1BJle4 992 01 004_670000000000000_80973_PET |bZZV_TSZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_RZQSW_AL6 966 |cIn the Research Room