What do the media refer to when they speak of intellectual property? A comparative content analysis in the quality press

Authors

  • Javier Díaz Noci Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Keywords:

quality press, authors’ rights, intellectual property, copyright, comparative law.

Abstract

This paper seeks to present the principal aspects and rights (moral, financial operational or of related nature) dealt with by the leading quality media of a representative sample of the two main legal traditions: common law (with the copyright system) and civil law (with the authors’ rights system). A content analysis is conducted on the news published by the aforementioned media in the United States (The New York Times, The Washington Post); Canada (The Globe and Mail, La Presse); France (Le Monde, Le Figaro); Spain (El País, El Mundo); Italy (La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera); and the United Kingdom (The Guardian, The Times), in the opening months of 2014, when several reforms were made in intellectual property, both within these nations and in supranational structures (European Union, WIPO-OMPI).

Keywords: quality press, authors’ rights, intellectual property, copyright, comparative law.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Issue

Núm. 16 (2014-2015) : Qualitat informativa i ètica periodística

Section

Articles

License

 The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.

On submitting articles for publication to Periodística, authors accept the following terms:
  1. Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Comunicació (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Periodística.
  2. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Comunicació for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.
  3. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.
  4. Societat Catalana de Comunicació declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.
  5. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.
  6. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.