MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Energy Program, Canadian Business, Universal Postal Union
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Introduction: communication policies are established by international regulatory bodies and national and regional governments to ensure that media serves not only their owners and content creators, but individual citizens and society, some important distinctions to keep in mind. Policy as a set of guiding ideas and practices. Regulation, or the enforcement of legislation & government policy through rule making: what is communication for in canada. Back to future: the purpose of national communications security. To prevent the circulation of illegal materials. To protect financial data, etc: communications policy is a by-product of global contact between peoples, companies, and governments, examples of early international communications agreements. International telegraph convention 1865: recognition of intellectual property. Began with the invention of the printing press. Early copyright laws were only national in scope. Beme convention (1886) was the first international agreement: preventing media imperialism. Unesco is a forum for discussion of communications issues. Wto is a forum for discussion of economic issues.
