CMST 3II3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Richard Stallman, Free Education, Ian Hargreaves

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

Document Summary

4 short answer questions (answer 3: topics and themes examined throughout the course. System designed to guide behaviour, specifically by balancing the rights and freedoms of individuals and the need to maintain public order. It can include: statutes, court rulings, administrative rules and procedures. It is an original work of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, and it does not include: facts and ideas, titles and names, us government documents, works that have entered the public domain. But works in the domain can still be sold, by anyone who chooses to. Gives an inventor a set of exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and import a particular invention. Must be registered with a patent office, and has to be: novel - not necessarily new, useful - must work, non-obvious - inventive. Patents do not apply to: scientific principles or abstract theorems (theoretical proposition, professional skills and methods, mathematical formula, computer calculation.