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POLICY CHANGE
Week 6

Considerations
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◦Public vs Private broadcasting services
-PBS/CT1
◦Creativity vs. Commodification
-Britpop/K-pop
◦Scenes vs. Creative Clusters
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Policy
◦Relationship between Government and Markets
◦Legislate, regulate, subsidise
◦Cultural policy, media policy
◦Public ownership, (re-) deregulation [privatization, lifting of restraints, expansion of private
ownership]
◦Public Service/Interest (p. 152) vs. Corporate interests
◦Telecommunications: public resource/private utility
◦Government as Father/Tyrant
◦1980s (Downturn) – increase efficiency of utilities
◦Five Waves of Marketization (History)
◦International policy bodies (p162)
◦Copyright (intellectual Property) /public domain (how we define/remunerate creativity)
◦Fair use (our use)
◦Happy Birthday/China
◦Policies are both responses to, and products of, sociocultural, economic, and technological
conditions, but they have also been fundamental in triggering transformations in the cultural
industries.

Creative Cities, Industries, Economies
◦Cultural Policy – High/Low Culture, Economics
◦Creative Cities, Clusters, Economies (tourism/branding)
◦Entrepreneurship, Regeneration  (returns on public investment)
◦Conclusion – p. 195