CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Universal Postal Union, Macbride Report, Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
16 Mar 2016
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Rationale for market intervention: markets tend not to recognize longevity of products. 2: cultural goods have merit, & deserve to be produced even if they cannot be. Infant industries often need support until they can develop own markets sustained by market: other factors: wide variety of public tastes, risks involved in cultural production, substantial resource investments needed to produce cultural goods. Challenges to enacting policy: technological, fiscal & philosophical. National policy: protect national security, prevent circulation of illegal materials, started with global contact btwn ppl through trade & exploration, ex: international comm agreements: general postal union, 1874. Recognition of intellectual property (copyright: began w invention of printing press, protect rights of creators/producers, no one dominant media system, early laws were only national in scope, government is responsible (ngos protect individual rights) Right to communicate: freedom of speech, 1960s, recommended by 1980 un macbride commission but never acted on, reintroduced in 2001 world summit.
