OTTAWA – In its statutory review of the Copyright Act, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) parted ways with its Canadian Heritage counterpart on issues regarding ownership of cinematographic works, the definition of “sound recording” in the legislation, and the radio-royalty exemption.
However, differences between both committees were also based on process, according to a news release INDU issued on Tuesday.
It said that since the committee presented its report to the House of Commons on June 3, “some stakeholders who participated in INDU’s proceedings have expressed regret that the committee…
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GATINEAU – Alicia Barin has been appointed as the CRTC’s regional member for Quebec, announced Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez this afternoon.
Her five-year term will begin August 11, 2019, the day after the term of current CRTC commissioner for Quebec, Yves Dupras, expires.
Barin has more than 20 years of experience in the Canadian media industry and was a key member of Astral Media's senior management team from 2003 to 2013. When she left the company in 2013 she was vice-president of strategic planning. Since then, she has been working in corporate affairs for AECO Project Management and Barin Architecture…
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BANFF – The federal government will help fund a new initiative designed to boost the number of women-owned and women-led businesses within the screen-based industries.
Announced on the opening day of the Banff World Media Fest, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Halifax MP Andy Fillmore said that almost $2 million will be directed to the Banff Television Festival Foundation for the Banff Accelerator for Women in the Business of Media.
According to the announcement, the investment will help at least 50 participants to grow their business, support 16 participants in starting a business, and result in 200…
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BANFF – Now celebrating its 40th year, the Banff World Media Festival (BWMF) has grown to become one of the world’s premier conferences and marketplace for leading edge content producers, media executives, and digital entrepreneurs.
More than 1,500 delegates and attendees from more than 20 countries gather in the jaw dropping movie-set vistas of Banff, Alberta to continue the tradition of playing an integral role developing Canada’s (and the world’s) screen industries… all the while contributing to exports and growing associated sectors such as music and independent production.
Billions of dollars worth of business deals have been started and/or closed here…
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OTTAWA – The federal government should update the rules regarding first ownership of cinematographic works; maintain the definition of “sound recording” in the Copyright Act; and amend the legislation to ensure that the radio-royalty exemption only applies to “small, independent broadcasters,” according to a House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology report on the statutory review of the Copyright Act presented to Parliament on Monday.
Last month’s report by the House Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on remuneration models for Canadian artists and creative industries took a different approach to the three issues,…
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OTTAWA – Speaking before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa, CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait said public and private broadcasters in Canada are seeing their territory invaded by multinational foreign giants that have disrupted the very nature of the country’s media landscape.
“We know that our industry is facing real challenges,” Tait said during the meeting where the committee is studying the mandate of CBC/Radio-Canada as it relates to the Broadcasting Act. “We want to work with Canadian partners, both public and private because today our competition is not with each other. Our competition is Google, Facebook,…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s creative community applauded the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage for hitting the right notes in calling for better pay for Canadian artists in its Shifting Paradigms report presented to Parliament on May 15.
Now, however, groups representing artists want the federal government to produce a symphony of legislative change from the committee’s 22 recommendations, which include a call to both support creators and creative industries adapt to new digital markets, and review safe-harbour exceptions and laws to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) are “accountable for their role in the distribution of content.”
“As technology…
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GATINEAU – Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has tapped eight Canadian news organizations to make recommendations for a panel that will help determine the eligibility criteria for tax measures designed to support legacy print media companies.
News Media Canada, the Association de la presse francophone, the Quebec Community Newspaper Association, the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, Unifor and the Fédération nationale des communications will now select candidates for an independent panel that will decide which media organizations are eligible for the Feds’ $595 million journalism…
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OTTAWA – The federal government should revive the department of communications as part of its review of broadcasting, telecommunications and radiocommunication legislation, a University of Calgary expert on the relationship between communications systems and governments told a conference on Canada’s electronic communications law at the University of Ottawa last week.
Rather than having the minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada responsible for the Telecommunications Act and Radiocommunication Act, and the Canadian Heritage minister responsible for the Broadcasting Act, “we need a ministry whose sole purpose is the oversight of the Canadian communication system,” said Gregory Taylor, an assistant…
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HALIFAX – The inaugural recipients of Canada’s new export funding program were unveiled Wednesday in Halifax by Andy Fillmore, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism and Halifax MP.
The Creative Export Canada program, launched last June by then Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, provides companies and organizations that are ready to export and work in a creative industry, or in support of one, with funding to make it easier for buyers and audiences abroad to discover Canadian content.
The first 20 projects will share a total of nearly $7.8 million in funding. The projects, in alphabetical order, are:
Apollo Boutique Musicale…
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