Search Engine examines the problems with lawful access in this week’s episode, which features an interview with Micheal Vonn of the BCCLA.
Archive for May, 2011
Canadian Broadcasters and BDUs: Can They Compete With “Free”?
While the dispute is now before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission – Quebecor claims Bell is violating the legal requirement against “undue preferences”- more interesting is Bell’s claim about the value of Sun News Network signal.
According to Mirko Bibic, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at Bell Canada, the market value of Sun News Network is zero because Quebecor makes the signal available free over-the-air in Toronto and is currently streaming it free on the Internet. Given the free access, Bell maintains that the signal no longer has a market value.
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes Bibic’s comment may be posturing for negotiation purposes, but it highlights the larger problem for Canadian broadcasters and broadcast distributors such as cable and satellite providers.
Canadian Broadcasters and BDUs: Can They Compete With “Free”?
Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 21, 2011 as Can Canadian Broadcasters Compete With Free? Earlier this month, Bell and Quebecor, two giants in the Canadian broadcasting and telecom landscape, became embroiled in a dispute over Sun News Network, the recently launched all-news network. At first glance, the dispute […]
Open Access Journal Growth in Canada: 2/3 of Learned Journals With Some OA
The Canadian Association of Learned Journals has released its annual report on scholarly journal publishing in Canada. The report finds a growing percentage have adopted open access models – 25 percent are fully open access and an additional 39 percent have a “moving wall” for open access (articles become openly […]
What Happened to the CIHR’s Trial Transparency Policy?
In a series of important posts (1, 2, 3, 4), the Social Justice Librarian blog points to changes at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on a trial transparency policy.