MDST*1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypertext, Rupert Murdoch, World Intellectual Property Organization

• School: UofGH
• Department: Media
• Course: MDST*1010
• Professor: Gregory Shupak

Document Summary

Money, power, and the internet: how can the political economy of. Communication help us understand the internet? robert mcchesney. Mozart or shakespeare] at the expense of the rest of us: copyright should be for students, teachers, readers, library patrons, researchers, freelance writers, emerging musicians, and experimental artists. Mark twain first invoked property talk & shifted the debate away from what was good for the public to what would benefit already successful authors. When issues of authorship, originality, use, and access to ideas and expressions are framed in terms of property, debate is limited: rewarding artists is not the only issue at stake. Thinking about copyright as an issue of property & theft in practice enables corporations to limit access to and use of their products & does little for starving artists. Instead of trying to prevent "theft, need copyright policy that encourages creative expression without limiting the prospects for future creators.