Nearly 10,000 submissions, most by people who didn’t read the proposal
GATINEAU – The FairPlay Coalition has a fight on its hands.
Last week saw the passing of the deadline to respond to the CRTC’s call for comments on the public proceeding opened to consider the FairPlay Coalition’s call for a new agency to help fight online piracy of content.
In January, the coalition of Canadian artists, content creators, unions, guilds, producers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors proposed the CRTC establish something called the Independent Piracy Review Agency (IPRA), which would assist it in identifying websites blatantly engaged in content theft –…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance is now accepting nominations for Tuned-in Canada: The CCSA Awards 2018.
Nominations will be accepted here through March 23 in the categories of:
– Best content: community channel programming– Best people: on-camera community channel personality– Best people: celebrating your office hero – Best story: making your community stronger– Best photo: what does connecting Canada mean to your company?
Shortlisted nominees will be announced on April 10 and voting will begin April 30.
Winners in each category will be announced on May 23 and will receive $1,000 to donate to a community…
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SKIDEGATE, BC – Thirty-three rural and remote British Columbia communities, including13 Indigenous communities, will receive new or improved high-speed Internet thanks to a joint federal-provincial investment of $38 million.
The funding, announced Tuesday by Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains, and British Columbia’s Minister of Citizens’ Services Jinny Sims, comes in addition to the $45.4 million investment announced in January for 154 coastal BC communities.
According to the announcement, $19.7 million will come from the federal government’s Connect to Innovate program; $11.3 million will come from the Government of British Columbia, through the Connecting British Columbia…
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Part VIII in our series on rewriting the Telecom and Broadcasting Acts
IT’S BEEN PRETTY CLEAR throughout Cartt.ca’s investigation of the opportunities and challenges associated with modernizing Canada’s telecommunications and broadcasting legislative frameworks that the Broadcasting Act appears most in need of updating.
We won’t rehash it here (check the prior seven articles on our “Investigates” page), but think Netflix and their online TV provider brethren and the myriad challenges facing media. That said, the Telecommunications Act requires some tweaking, too, according to interviews and comments in industry fora.
It’s been nearly two years since broadband services were…
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8e partie dans notre série sur la révision des Lois sur la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications
IL APPARAÎT CLAIREMENT au fil de notre enquête sur les défis et opportunités associés à la modernisation du cadre législatif de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications que la Loi sur la radiodiffusion semble celle qui a le plus besoin d’une mise à jour.
Nous ne passerons pas en revue tous les arguments (consultez les sept articles précédents sous l’onglet «Investigate»), mais pensez à Netflix et leurs confrères fournisseurs de télévision en ligne et à la myriade de défis rencontrés par…
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Part VII in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts
THE CANADIAN BROADCASTING ecosystem has entered a challenging era, but it’s not only the digital shift that has caused upheaval. Some argue vertical integration policies have caused just as much damage to the system.
As Brad Danks, CEO at OUTtv argued in a previous section (and in his own recent writings on the matter), vertical integration has failed the Canadian system to the detriment of the smaller independent players. This is where competition law should play a role, he added.
In OUTtv’s submission to the CRTC’s distribution models of the…
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7e partie dans notre série sur la révision des Lois sur la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications
LE SYSTÈME DE RADIODIFFUSION canadien est entré dans une ère de changements, mais il n’y a pas que la transition numérique qui pose problème. Certains affirment que les politiques sur l’intégration verticale ont causé tout autant de problèmes.
Comme l’indique Brad Danks, PDG de OUTtv dans un article précédent (et dans ses propres écrits sur le sujet), l’intégration verticale a eu un effet négatif sur le système canadien de radiodiffusion au détriment des petits joueurs indépendants. C’est ici que le droit de la concurrence devrait…
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GATINEAU – In a complaint filed with the CRTC last week, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance says Rogers Media is violating a number of CRTC policies in refusing to let its members launch or re-package channels as contract negotiations drag on.
The CCSA represents over 115 independent broadband and video carriers which collectively serve approximately 350,000 Canadians, in areas which compete with one or more of the bigger providers, or in more rural regions.
In the complaint, filed February 22nd and posted to the Commission’s website Wednesday, the CCSA says Rogers Media Inc. is now refusing to permit CCSA members to…
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Part VI in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts
TODAY’S COMMUNICATIONS WORLD is marked by a few large, vertically integrated companies offering Internet access, broadcasting, telecommunications and wireless services. These firms have considerable control over who has access to their networks and what content is available over their respective pipes.
This means governments and regulators must ensure smaller independent competitors have access to these networks and to make this access as competitively neutral as possible. Even more, the big owners of those networks shouldn’t be able to favour some content over others. This, in a nutshell, is net…
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6e partie dans notre série sur la révision des Lois sur la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications
LE MONDE DES communications d’aujourd’hui est dominé par quelques grandes entreprises intégrées verticalement qui offrent de l’accès à l’Internet, de la radiodiffusion, des télécommunications et des services sans-fil. Ces firmes exercent un contrôle considérable sur qui a accès à leurs réseaux et quel contenu est disponible sur leurs réseaux respectifs.
Cela veut dire que les gouvernements et les régulateurs doivent s’assurer que les petits concurrents indépendants aient accès à ces réseaux et s’assurer que cet accès soit aussi neutre que possible. De plus, les grands…
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