Cultural Policy and Digitisation: Copyright, property and Regulation in a Digital World Week 11&12

Policy: Key Terms

Digital natives

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WEB 2.0

"There is a huge reward to those who innovate, and death to those who do not". - Hartley, J. (2009) pp. 231-224.

'Belongs' to the teens and young adults as they are the first generation to have grown up immersed in the internet

"Self-made media content has already disrupted the expert paradigm that dominated media production during the broadcast era"- Hartley, J. (2009) 'from the Consciousness Industry to the Creative Industries: Consumer-Created Content, Social network markets, and the growth of knowledge', in Holt,J (ed.) Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 231-224. #

Allows audience to interact and respond to news better

User generated content now occupies a re large proportion of the internet.

"An Architecture of participation" (O'Reilly)

Article exploring the concept of Web 2.0 [http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Web-20-or-Web-2]

Trademarks- Symbols that help to differentiate between the products of individual companies.

Copyright- Prevents artistic works and expression from being copied and reproduces #

Patents- These are in place to protect new ideas from being claimed by other developers

TYPE OF WORK; Written, dramatic, musical and artistic work. Sound and musical recording. Films. Broadcasts. layout of published editions of written, dramatic or musical works.

HOW LONG DOES IS USUALLY LAST: 70 years after authors death. 70 years from when first publishes. 70 years after death of director, screenplay author and composer. 25 years from when first published.

Ownership

The Public domain

Copyright is important to creators so that they are recognised for their work

Works such as Jane Eyre''s Pride and Prejudice

Anyone can claim the rights to them as have reached end og copyright and now belong to the people, so can be adapted or made into films with no issue

The digital native - immigrant concept refers to the switch over from those who were introduced to modern technology and the post-millennial's who were raised with it

There is an argument for the decline of reading due to digital rise, as this article for The Guardian explores: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/07/internet.literacy

Post-Millennials tend to engage in this form of media consumption #