Post Tagged with: "Culture"

How iTunes Saved The Office

Interesting story how download numbers for The Office saved the show from near-certain cancellation.

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November 1, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Statistics Canada on Culture

Statistics Canada is out today with several cultural studies including a regular culture periodical, an employment analysis, and a report that Canada’s cultural goods deficit grew in 2005.

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June 12, 2006 1 comment News

Our Own Creative Land

I am pleased to announce that I will be delivering the 2006 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto on March 30, 2006.  The title of my lecture is Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble With Copyright.  Organizers are printing a copy of the lecture, which […]

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March 7, 2006 1 comment News

CBC To Outsource Archives?

Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star reports this morning that the CBC may be in discussions with the BBC to outsource management of the CBC Archives to the UK public broadcaster.  As Zerbisias notes: "If it were outsourced, it would mean CBC's library of everything from old news footage to […]

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November 23, 2005 5 comments News

Canada’s Choice: Copyright, Culture and the Internet – The Podcast

I'm traveling a lot this month speaking about Canadian copyright, culture, and the Internet.  The focus of some of my talks is on how Canada need not follow the U.S. example on copyright policy.  Rather, it should make its own choices on these issues by adopting forward-looking policies based on […]

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November 2, 2005 1 comment News