CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Digital Revolution, Moral Rights
11 Apr 2015
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Efforts to reverse one-way flow from developed countries largely unsuccessful. Inequalities may also be found within countries urban splits, facilities available upnorth compared to elsewhere, literacy, class, income, gender (less in canada), access to internet, race, how long somebody"s been in the country, etc. Crtc decisions: pick and pay, data streaming caps, cancon regulations. Some of these refer to new technologies, others to longstanding issues: sometimes both. Ability to undermine some forms of corporate control. Some major business now undermined by digital media, eg. video stores. Principles of selection may be arbitrary, eg. vhs. May discover needs that did not previously exist. Moral rights: rights deemed to be the creator"s by virtue or work being created. Property rights: pertaining to ownership and material benefit one may gain from intellectual property. Policy framework based less in culture and more in economics (economism) Media increasingly interactive: we are simultaneously consumers and producers. An understanding that cultural products may be unique.
