CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Time Shifting, Format Shifting, Free Culture Movement
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Previously we have discussed the for-profit nature of media industries. Many of them survive because they are able to position themselves as the exclusive providers of a product poor service. At the centre of their ability to maintain exclusively, are the rights granted due to the ownership of culture as intellectual property (ip) According to the world intellectual property organization, ip is defined as creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images and designs used in commerce . One of the most visible ways of talking about the rights granted through ownership of intellectual property is copyright. Exclusive right to make copies (literally, the copy rights) The commercial rights associated with that property (right to profit from its sale, licensing, etc. ) Fixes the terms of exclusivity (territory, duration, limits the ways in which texts can be used) Key dates in the history of copyright include:
