COMN 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 7: Frequency Allocation, Market Failure, Berne Convention

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

Market failure is the inability of the market to serve properly. Allows governments to collect information to gauge opinion. Communications policy policy regime laid down 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 as a whole collectively. Royal commissions high level inquiries established by government to investigate problems and recommend solutions. Market intervention why the state intervenes in the communications sphere the needs of society. Policy initiatives, the emergence of new problems in the communications field or the advent of new media technologies from the public, from the business community, and from people directly involved and receive specific recommendations. Frequency allocation - to station ownership and state control. Intellectual property the set of rights that accure to an author by virtue of the work expended in the creation of a literary, dramatic, artistic, or musical work. law property rights.