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Guback, Thomas Bettig, Ronald Valentin 2011-05-07T14:22:38Z 2011-05-07T14:22:38Z 10000-01-01 1989 This dissertation examines the impact of new communications technology on the filmed-entertainment industry's copyright system. The development and deployment of new means of reproducing and distributing filmed-entertainment, such as cable television and videocassette recorders (VCRs), produced challenges to the traditional marketing practices of the U.S. filmed-entertainment industry. These challenges centered on the question of who should benefit from the new forms and uses of filmed-entertainment that the technologies generated. The filmed-entertainment industry responded to the new technologies with various efforts to protect and extend its copyrights. These efforts also involved the active participation of the U.S. government. Accordingly, the government's role is of central interest in this work. The dissertation begins with a critical review of the history and philosophy of copyright. Then, the ways in which the filmed-entertainment industry and government responded to the copyright challenge are analyzed using theoretical tools drawn from radical political economy, the economics of information, instrumental and structural theories of the state, and critical legal studies. These tools are applied in four case studies: (1) the efforts of the filmed-entertainment industry to secure a cable retransmission right in the U.S.; (2) the question of home taping of broadcasts on VCRs; (3) the international anti-videocassette piracy campaign; and, (4) the efforts of the U.S. filmed-entertainment industry to secure a cable retransmission right in Canadian law. These case studies reveal that copyright is essential to maintaining capitalist ownership of artistic and intellectual creativity; that it contributes to the increasing concentration of mass media ownership; and, that it therefore preserves undemocratic forms of access to and participation in artistic and intellectual creativity. In light of these findings, the author feels that copyright ought to be placed at the center of communication and information policy discussions at both the national and international levels. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:22:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9010805.pdf: 19449343 bytes, checksum: dc39ed84c8286128d9194ff6c3233974 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:06:02Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:31:41-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9010805 (UMI)AAI9010805 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23668 eng Copyright 1989 Bettig, Ronald Valentin Law Mass Communications Information Science The impact of new communications technology on filmed-entertainment copyrights text Law Mass Communications Information Science Law Mass Communications Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.