My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) reflects on the current debate on the future of the CBC and public broadcasting in Canada. I argue that missing from much of the dialogue has been the recognition that technology and the Internet may provide the CBC with […]
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On the Legislative Front
For those not closely tracking Hansard and government releases, there have been some noteworthy developments and non-developments in recent days. Bill C-37, the do-not-call bill, is racing through the Senate. The bill is already at second reading with some commentary from the Senators. No word on whether additional hearings on […]
The Real Story Behind Statscan’s Recording Industry Numbers
Statistics Canada is out today with a report on the state of the recording industry. The news is not good as the government' s statistics agency reports that the Canadian recording industry experienced its worst performance in six years in 2003. While this is old news – similar numbers have […]
Corus on the Cost of Copyright
Earlier this month I blogged about a Copyright Board decision on commercial radio royalty rates that represented a big win for the collectives and a big loss for commercial radio stations. How big? Today Corus Entertainment, one of Canada's leading radio networks, announced that the new royalty rates will cost […]
Mossberg on TPMs
Earlier this year I wrote a column on technological protection measures, arguing that we should be thinking about protection from TPMs, rather than protection for TPMs. That view is echoed by several other professors in the In the Public Interest book, but has led to the responses from Graham Henderson […]
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