Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda used the digital media conference at Banff to announce that Ottawa will spend $29 million over the next two years to fund new media.
Oda Commits Millions to New Media
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If they are going to throw money at new media, wouldn’t it be nice to also make sure that certain legal standards were made a lot more reasonable as well? With the uncertainties in libel (ahem!) and IP law, it would seem to be the responsible thing to address these pressing issues sooner rather than later, especially if the feds are going to throw money at the industry.