MATA32H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: World Trade Organization, New Media, Canadian Content
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Communications policy must adapt to changes in the mass communications sphere. Convergence: the merging of technologies, media forms, and media industries. Interactivity: we are quickly adapting to a mediascape in which we have increasing choice about how, when, and where we consume meida. Conflicts between international trade agreements and cultural policies. If no canadian cultural polciies were in place, american productions weould easily flood our marketplace. Canadian cultural exemptions were made, but exceptions would allow the us to retaliate and seek financial redress. There is no general exemption for cultural industries under wto. Convention on the production and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (unesco, This convention has not been signed by the us and to date has no bearing on international trade law. A billion industry with 6 subsectors: Governs telecommunications technology, infrastructure, and distribution networks in. Directed to interfere with market forces as little as possible. 4 basic principles: transparency, fairness, predictability, timeliness.
