CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Business, National Energy Program, Universal Postal Union

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Terry Flynn

Document Summary

Communications policy its established by international regulatory bodies and national and regional governments to ensure that media serve not only their owners and content creators, but individual citizens and society. In canada, communications policies can be developed by governments in committee, subjects to usual parliamentary procedures or by public agencies (crtc) Create a national sense of identity, ward against us dominance, and situate and protect canada"s communications interests within global context. Researched through public hearings, task forces, and parliamentary committees. Recommendations have resulted in the establishment of the nfb, cbc, crtc, To prevent the circulation of illegal materials. To protect nancial data, privacy and copyright. Communications policy is a by-product of global contact between peoples, companies and governments. Protection of economic and individual (human rights) Right to protection of materials and freedom of opinion and expression. Began with the invention of the printing press. Early copyright laws were only national in scope (foreign works not protected) .