The CRTC has released a major report on Canadian broadcasting reform. The 337 page report recommends re-examining substitution rules, discusses the link between broadcast and copyright, and provides some solid recommendations on new media including "the solutions to this issue [new media] lie not in imposing new regulatory restrictions on Canadian companies as some stakeholders has suggested, but rather in encouraging them to stake territory on the Internet, and in facilitating the production of Canadian new media content for the Internet."
Dunbar/Leblanc Report on Broadcasting Policy Released
September 13, 2007
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