CMST 3II3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Richard Stallman, Gentrification, Jargon

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

Document Summary

Suggestive: suggests an idea: must be acquired over time, justifying intellectual property. Utilitarian approach: copyright provides incentive that promotes innovation, assumption: desire for profit promotes progress, problem: progress is reduced to economic terms no idea in regards to public good, scope and owners rights, expression dichotomy. Forms of expression in association with copyright protection. Distinction between what counts and what does not. Line has been up for debate, never clear about how it is presumed in many situations: tangibility. Rights as audiences: performers performances, lecture, address, speech, sermon, originality. Creativity is not necessarily required: weather report: we all have the right to know the temperature in our surrounding areas (impossible to copyright factual information that is generated for the benefit of society, copyright coverage (canada) 2: owners" rights (cid:523)canada(cid:524, sound recording: sound effects, recording of sound fixed version. Derivative right: transfer into another medium (2d 3d) Public communication right: share work publicly by telecommunication (streaming)