Looking Back To the Future - Creators and Cultural Policy in the Era of FreeTrade: A Commentary
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author of this article outlines how public funds and interest in Canadian cultural policy decreased during the financial cuts of the 1990s, resulting in the decline of the role of public enterprise and regulation in the area of cultural policy. The article goes on to examine the impact of international treaties such as the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) on cultural policy in Canada. The author considers how Intellectual Property Rights (IPEs) are affected by the TRIPs, arguing that the stricter enforcement of IPR was instigated by transnational businesses and corporations who are themselves Intellectual Property (IP) holders and are anxious to stem the losses due to piracy around the world. It was created with their concerns in mind, and specifically excludes measures (such as moral rights) of prime concern to creators. These corporations acquire rights by employing creators or by acquiring IPRs, and they often infringe on the rights of individual creators of IP. The issue of copyright on the Internet is another example of the dilemmas considered in this discussion of how international IP regulations fail to serve the individual creator or to protect the cultural sovereignty of the nation. The article concludes by emphasizing the need and opportunity for new participation and directions as the traditional concepts and approaches to cultural policy are challenged by technical and political changes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".