[CMST 3II3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3II3
• Professor: David Murphy

Document Summary

Broad introduction to the categories that will be examined in more detail, 4 main categories: copyright. Intellectual property that applies to an original work including music, drama, art, cinema, choreographed performances & print. It is automatically granted for a particular period of time. E. g. you are entitled to copyright when you write a student paper. Copyright does not apply to ideas, only applies to (their tangible) expression: you can"t copy right the idea of a long song but can copyright a particular composition/ lyrics to the song, idea expression dichotomy, patent. Apply to methods, processes and predominantly inventions. Toilet paper does not seem to be novel to us today, but when it was created was extremely new idea. Not granted automatically, must be applied for through a patent of ce (canadian. Patents have stricter limits as opposed to copyright. You want to apply because : exclusive rights to develop/license to a manufacturer, want to pro t as the inventor.