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NFB Unreels Online Smash Hits

In recent years, Canadians have become increasingly accustomed to hearing about Internet success stories elsewhere with fewer examples of homegrown initiatives. However, as my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) discusses, an unlikely Canadian online video success has emerged recently that has not received its due – the National Film Board of Canada’s Screening Room.

February 1, 2010 — 7 comments — Columns

National Film Board Unreels Online Smash Hits

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 1, 2010 as National Film Board unreels online smash hits In recent years, Canadians have become increasingly accustomed to hearing about Internet success stories elsewhere with fewer examples of homegrown initiatives. However, an unlikely Canadian online video success has emerged recently that has […]

February 1, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

The NFB’s Open Success Story

The National Film Board of Canada yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the NFB Screening Room, an online site that opened the NFB to the world. The NFP has worked hard to make its work openly and freely available – open access to films, open source software underlying its site. […]

January 22, 2010 — 11 comments — News

CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Five: CWTA, DiMA, NFB, CIA, AN

Day five of the CRTC's New Media hearings featured some good exchanges with the CWTA over the profitability of new media over wireless along with evidence that the National Film Board "gets it" when it comes to the Internet and new media. Carleton professor Ira Wagman provides the details on […]

February 26, 2009 — 3 comments — News

NFB Makes Films Free Online

The CBC reports that the National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project that makes over 700 films freely available online. The site is part of a $1.3 million digitization project.

January 22, 2009 — 10 comments — News