Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005. / Appendices missing. "Quicktime and a TIFF decompresser are needed to see this picture" (p.217-239). Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

The current scholarship on copyright predominantly considers this area of law from the standpoint of economics. Likewise, since the adoption of the TRIPs Agreement, contemporary copyright law-making and practice has mainly been constructed around the assumption that its job is to create incentives to make more expressive works in the form of copyright embedded in goods and investment. Copyright law has heavily skewed towards the protection of corporate copyright ownership rather than individual authorship. In this model, culture is seen as the marketplace for merchandising and producing the products of copyright industries and an economic space facilitating the process of creativity. Intellectual properties are said be essential assets in firms’ portfolios and an important component in the macro-economic development of a country. Thus, current copyright law has predominantly an economic-oriented model that shapes its cultural and development policies. This thesis offers an alternative framework for copyright law focusing not on economic development alone but on more broadly promoting human development and one of its predominant framework, namely the ‘capabilities approach’, to transform the ‘controlled culture’ that individuals live in to a ‘fair culture’. Thus, this study’s central research questions are: How could western (UK, EU, and US) copyright laws’ economic-oriented development and culture visions be reshaped through the capabilities approach and ‘participatory culture’ considerations in order to enhance participation in culture? And what legal resolutions and remedies could be drawn from the fundamental rights framework (specifically from the right to take part in cultural life and freedom of expression) to make such a shift in copyright laws? Freedom is a crucial value in the construction of a fair culture within copyright. Inspiration here is Amartya Sen’s concept of ‘development as freedom’ and Martha Nussbaum’s idea to rationalise these freedoms as touchstone values in constitutional entitlements. To promote ‘development as freedom’, in Amartya Sen’s words, copyright law cannot be detached from the considerations of fostering people’s capabilities to participate in cultural and political life. Therefore, the main contention of this thesis is that copyright law does more than encouraging the creation of more commodities and investment: it fundamentally affects human development and substantive freedoms, or capabilities, of all people to live a good life in a democratic culture and society. The challenge that this thesis posits is how to bring the politics of human dignity and the politics of welfare into a single framework within copyright law. To this end, the capability-oriented human rights assessment of copyright law is brought to open a fresh discussion over the conventional wisdom mentioned above. To replace the existing ‘culture and economic development model’ with the ‘culture and human development model’, this study identifies capabilities or substantive freedoms (cultural human rights and freedoms), as a way of evaluating copyright law’s goals in general and its impact on individuals’ capabilities to freely express themselves and participate in cultural and political life. As an alternative to traditional development measures, Sen and Nussbaum propose the concept of the advancement of ‘central capabilities’ in which capabilities represent ‘what people are actually able to do and to be’. This inquiry aims at creating a synergy between the ‘capabilities approach’and human rights framework through the identification of relevant capability-based cultural human rights and freedoms to set a normative base for the construction of a fair culture. Again from a capabilities perspective, this thesis further analyses some contemporary issues surrounding contemporary copyright enforcement measures - namely notice-and-4 takedown and graduated response procedures, file sharing, disclosure orders, filtering and website blocking orders, the extension of copyright terms, pre-established/statutory and additional damages, technological protection measures and the intermediary liability, the extension of criminal liability and notice-and-staydown - where the tension between copyright law and cultural human rights and freedoms are more acute. This helps to identify the important cultural netibilities (freedoms/capabilities on the Internet) in a networked world. In the final analysis, this thesis proposes two frameworks, one for legislators and one for courts, to engage with these cultural human rights and freedoms which are of importance for the advancement of human development. In the former framework, the copyright rules laid down by the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement are discussed as a case study to show more concretely how copyright law affects human development and to make proposals for future direction of treaty and law-making with respect to it. The second framework, by fundamentally relying on the legal test proposed by Abbe Brown in her book “Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Competition: Access to Essential Innovation and Technology,” aims to complete this thesis with the introduction of a legal test (deconstructive multiple proportionally test) for courts to engage with a conflict of norms between human rights and copyright, which will make them take cognisance of human development paradigm, when such a conflict is encountered.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 360-381).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Communication, Information and Library Studies." Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-275). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, School of Culture and Communication, 2009. By research. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-125)

Submitted by biblioteca unifenas (biblioteca@unifenas.br) on 2017-09-14T19:38:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Angélica Carvalho Cunha Dissertação.pdf: 1798701 bytes, checksum: cbd5719edb73329b81ca6331087f0eae (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-14T19:38:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Angélica Carvalho Cunha Dissertação.pdf: 1798701 bytes, checksum: cbd5719edb73329b81ca6331087f0eae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-12 / The south region of Minas Gerais stands out nationally for its coffee culture, where most of its producers have family farming characteristics, thus having certain technological need. Considering these aspects, many producers do not have software to carry out the management control of their productions. Information systems have greatly added in various industries, and it would be no different in agribusiness. Thus, it is essential that the lagged technologically farmers can have access to the tools to become more competitive enterprise. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop web system that aims to coffee production management. Such a system was developed from interviews with coffee farmers in the southern region of Minas Gerais, where ascertained how it is necessary to online systems that auxiliary in the management of properties. To develop the system used the PHP web programming language, JavaScript and MySQL database. It should be noted that the system has the responsive feature, adapting well in different sizes and shapes of devices. The system was developed by the importance of having a friendly interface and easy to use. / A região Sul de Minas Gerais destaca-se nacionalmente pelo seu cultivo de café, onde a maioria de seus produtores têm características de agricultura familiar, desta forma tendo certa carência tecnológica. Diante destes aspectos, muitos produtores não possuem softwares que realizem o controle de gestão de suas produções. Os sistemas de informação muito têm acrescentado em diversos setores, e não seria diferente no agronegócio. Sendo assim, torna-se imprescindível que os produtores rurais defasados tecnologicamente possam ter acesso às ferramentas que permitam tornar o empreendimento mais competitivo. Portanto, o objetivo do presente trabalho foi desenvolver sistema web que tem como finalidade a gestão da produção de café. Tal sistema foi desenvolvido a partir de entrevistas realizadas com produtores de café da região Sul de Minas Gerais, em que averiguaram o quão se faz necessário sistemas online que os auxiliassem na gestão das propriedades. Para desenvolvimento deste utilizou-se a linguagem de programação web PHP, JavaScript e banco de dados MySQL. Deve-se ressaltar que o sistema apresenta a característica responsiva, adaptando assim a diversos tamanhos e formatos de dispositivos. Desenvolveu-se o sistema mediante a importância de se ter uma interface amigável e de fácil utilização. Utilizou-se a modalidade web e com a característica responsiva tendo em mente que o produtor rural pode fazer o controle de sua produção em sua propriedade rural e também de outros locais, bastando ter acesso à Internet e estar em posse de um dispositivo de sua preferência.

The master´s thesis analyses company culture of m&m Arts which effects on e-market and application of the latest trends in image, psychology, communication and so one. The object of this business work is modern conception of company culture which bring much more comfort for all customers and improve relations between customers and company. The product of this work is more new customers and company visibility.

This thesis examines the new theatrical form of cyberformance (live performance by remote players using internet technologies) and contextualises it within the broader fields of networked performance, digital performance and theatre. Poststructuralist theories that contest the binary distinction between reality and representation provide the analytical foundation for the thesis. A critical reflexive methodological approach is undertaken in order to highlight three themes. First, the essential qualities and criteria of cyberformance are identified, and illustrated with examples from the early 1990s to the present day. Second, two cyberformance groups – the Plaintext Players and Avatar Body Collision – and UpStage, a purpose-built application for cyberformance, are examined in more detailed case studies. Third, the specifics of the cyberformance audience are explored and commonalities are identified between theatre and online culture. In conclusion, this thesis suggests that theatre and the internet have much to offer each other in this current global state of transition, and that cyberformance offers one means by which to facilitate the incorporation of new technologies into our lives.

The thesis is focused on the subject of genres in the context of new media, specializing on the biggest Internet online video sharing platform, YouTube. Considering the interactivity of YouTube as a kind of social media site and making contact between the creator and his audience, the genre composition of YouTube channels directly reflects the preferences of the specific audience. The main objective of this thesis is to make an analysis of genres on a sample of five selected professional Czech YouTube channels. The sample is based on current order of channels according to the number of subscribers (namely ViralBrothers, MenT, GEJMR, Jirka Král and Hoggy). After the introduction of how professional YouTube channels operate follows the theoretical part of the thesis defining the basic ideas, which are important to set the methodological framework of the analysis. The analytical part consists of presenting the results of the genre analysis, categorizing genres into a system and defining genres based on their characteristics.