CRI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jeremy Bentham, Private Good

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Creative Industries
• Course: CRI 200
• Professor: Jeremy Shtern

Document Summary

Class 2 cri 200 murray and trosow pg. ix 34. Law is a process based on a set of social relaionships. Copyright bills were introduced in parliament in 2005, 2008, and 2010. Creators and publishers ind themselves squeezed and someimes even pummelled by new media pathways, content, and tools and reduced government funding. Canadians are short on pracical and accurate informaion about what we can and can"t do within the framework of our own copyright law. Arisic and intellectual producion understood in this collecive way tends to be supported by patronage rather than by a system of individual rights or property. Uilitarianism: major stream of jusiicaion of copyright, atributed to the nineteenth-century english philosopher jeremy bentham, consituion might be taken as an example of uilitarianism. Litle atenion has been paid in the policy context to understanding the nature and characterisics of informaion. Public goods are generally nonrival in consumpion, and do not possess exclusion mechanisms.