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Media, Information and Technoculture 248F/G Legal and Ethical Issues in Multimedia

This course examines currently implemented legal responses to the challenges of controlling information flow. These responses will then be discussed in terms of their ethical, political and economic consequences and the possible alternative responses which could be formulated in law. Issues to be considered will involve ownership of information, access to information, privacy, control of creativity in multimedia, amongst others.

Prerequisite: Media, Information and Technoculture 247F/G or Philosophy 140.
3 lecture hours, half course


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