CS101 Lecture Notes - Copyleft, Trade Restriction, Consumer Protection
Document Summary
Live in highly mediated life, you are able to get away from it. !- whoever owns your media owns you? possibility. Innovative or creative thoughts - intellectual property. What happens when you have two forms of use and the law is based on use. Is a new form of consumption in media world. Publishers - knowledge, problems with sovereignty ! !- 1538: henry 8th - clamped down on publishers. 1300s: patents: for collecting taxes ex. for publishing. Print bill, carried and shown to people to show they could do what they were doing. 1556: royal warrant for guild of printers. !- 1710: most combined into general law - statute of ann! Copyright became a relationship between author, publisher, and disseminator of. Had to put into repository - in a book. Repealed in 1842 by rst copyright act. 1624: attempted to clean up plurality of monopolies of the world. Letter of protectionism in form of mercantilism.
