On the day the MPAA reported record revenues in 2006, the CTV National News featured a story (video here) on the U.S. pressure on movie piracy. The story included a brief interview with U.S. ambassador David Wilkins along with a short response from me and a comment from an RCMP […]
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Heritage Standing Committee on CTF
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage last week submitted its report on the Future of the Canadian Television Fund. Its recommendation is short but potentially far-reaching: any structural and core policy changes directly affecting Canada's telecommunications policy or Canada's broadcasting policy be subject to votes in the House of Commons […]
MSFT on Google
There is lots of buzz about today's Microsoft speech challenging Google's respect for copyright. Danny Sullivan does a terrific job of dissecting the Microsoft claims.
U.S. Senators Pressure Prime Minister on Movie Camcording
The dispute over movie camcording in Canada has escalated further with the intervention late last week of two prominent U.S. Senators. Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge Canada to enact new anti-camcording legislation. The letter pulls out all the usual suspects […]
Olympic Timing
Several people have written to note the curious timing of the introduction Bill C-47, the Olympics marks bill (perhaps better referred to as the Olympic Corporate Sponsor Protection Act). The approach was unusual on several counts. First, the bill was introduced toward the end of the day on Friday after […]
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