Post Tagged with: "canadian heritage"

New Media in Canada: My Appearance Before the Heritage Committee

Earlier today, I appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage as its first witness on a new study on Canada and New Media. I've posted my opening remarks below, but the 90 minute discussion is much more interesting as it covered a wide range of issues from copyright to the iPod levy to networks to the digitization in Canada. An audio stream is available now and the transcript should come early next week.

Appearance before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage
March 25, 2010

March 25, 2010 — 7 comments — Committees, News

Government Directs CRTC To Consider Fee-For-Carriage

Following on yesterday's post on how Conservative MPs submitted comments to the CRTC in support of fee-for-carriage, this morning Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced an Order-in-Council directing the CRTC to hold hearings and report back on a fee-for-carriage system in Canada. The challenge, as noted yesterday, is the possibility […]

September 17, 2009 — 10 comments — News

Government Backs Newspaper Digitization Initiative

Canadian Heritage has provided funding for an initiative to digitize up to 20 multicultural newspapers on an open-access basis.

July 31, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

Knopf on the Moore Speech

Howard Knopf provides his take on the James Moore and Tony Clement speeches this week at the Digital Economy conference.

June 25, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

Reflecting on the Digital Economy Conference

Ottawa has played host to many digital economy-type conferences over the years. Many have the same feel with pretty much the same people saying pretty much the same thing. Yesterday's conference titled Canada's Digital Economy: Moving Forward was different. The primary reason was leadership (the noteworthy impact of Twitter on the proceedings and Terry Matthews' warning against mimicking the U.S. on copyright which he said "has become so extreme that it inhibits creativity and innovation" rank a close behind). Both Industry Minister Tony Clement and Canadian Heritage James Moore left no doubt that they get it and are determined to craft laws and policies that look ahead rather than behind.

Clement closed the conference by noting how much has changed in the year since Bill C-61 was introduced. Clement said that it was "at least a somewhat different" public policy environment and committed to a copyright consultation this summer: