Court rules ISPs are not broadcasters; creators ponder appeal

OTTAWA – While ruling that Internet Service Providers are not, in fact, broadcasters and therefore not subject to Canadian content exhibition or contribution requirements, the Federal Court of Appeal today also issued a bit of a caution on the issue of net neutrality.When the CRTC issued its broadcasting in new media report in June of 2009, it also decided to ask the Federal Court of Appeal to decide whether the act of providing a pipe through which customers can bore into the Internet and draw programming to their various devices makes ISPs broadcasting entities – and therefore subject to the...