This thesis studies the impact of North American copyright on technological development. The first section proposes a broad vision of copyright including both Canadian and American legal concepts. It analyses different modern definitions of copyright, the origin of the concept and its underlying justifications. The second section presents the historical relations between copyright and technologies. It studies the history of the printing press, the photography, the player-piano, the motion picture, the radio, the cable TV, the photocopier, the videotape, the Digital Audio Tape and the MP3, and the legal challenge they represented. Those elements give us the opportunity to evaluate the influence of copyright on technological development.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30293 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Deschamps-Marquis, Marie Hélène. |
| Contributors | Handa, Sunny (advisor), Gendreau, Ysolde (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Comparative Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001740852, proquestno: MQ64269, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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