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Satellite TV decision upholds ability of stakeholders to protect against rights theft

I read with interest the editorial in the May 1 edition of Canadian NEW MEDIA and was particularly intrigued by the writer’s observation that "the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision last week on grey market satellite TV was a body blow to the advocates of free speech". The editorial then proceeded to express the hope that "a Charter challenge to the ruling will hopefully set aside the Radiocommunication Act’s less-than-constitutional laws regarding the reception of foreign programming services…"

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CNM People

Claude Galipeau has taken over the position of managing director of cbc.ca. Galipeau is well-known as the force behind Salter Street Films’ new media division started in 1998, and as VP of broadcasting at Alliance Atlantis after that company purchased Salter.

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CNM Short Takes

Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund winners
The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has announced winners from its February 1 round. Production grants were awarded to I Love Money (Breakthrough Films & Television); CG Kids (Summerhill Entertainment Inc.); and L’Amerique Francaise (Les Productions Hyperzoom Inc.). Development grants were awarded to: Contents of a Deadman’s Pockets (Trapeze Media & Cellar Door Productions); Enhanced Gemini and Genie Awards (Xenophile Media); Wildfiles.TV (Reel Girls Media); ArtsEtAutres.ca (Entreprises de Creation Panacom); and Un tresor dans mon jardin (Les Productions Tooncan Inc.). Finally, both the Association ISOC Quebec and the Alliance NumériQC were granted professional development funding.

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Blast Radius scores Canadian Tourism contract

Blast Radius, one of Canada’s largest and most successful new media firms, says a three-year contract to rebuild the Canadian Tourism Commission’s (CTC) web site isn’t a rare win for the company. Michael Dingle, executive VP of client development, says the contract, likely the envy of many smaller shops struggling to survive, is part of the routine course of business at Blast, which has carefully managed its growth to profitably win large enterprise projects.

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Deadline passes for Suite101 takeover by Blue Frogg to spin online writer community into new entity

Salt Lake City-based Blue Frogg will not follow through on its option to purchase the assets of Suite101.com for US$155,000 and give the writers community a new lease on life after being spun out from its parent corporation (CNM, Jan. 23/02). The final date to exercise its option was May 15. Blue Frogg had already paid installments of US$15,000 and US$30,000 to Suite, and was to decide whether to add Suite101 to its growing stable of web properties including E-How, Delphi Forums, and IdeaExchange.

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Producers survey finds near-flat revenue in 2000 as market slowdown takes toll

The third Delvinia Inc. Interactive Media Producers Survey (IMPS) has confirmed the new media industry’s perceptions that the year 2000 saw a serious slide in the latter half, but estimated gross revenues for the sector remained nearly unchanged over 1999. The interactive media sector added $1.8 billion to its top line in 2000, an increase of almost three per cent over the previous year. But the report’s authors say the figure masks a serious turn in the sector’s fortunes over the latter half of 2000 in the wake of the meltdown in public markets in March/April of that year.

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U.S. gov’t, industry pressure Canadians to overhaul copyright protection regime

American copyright holders are stepping up efforts to kill proposed legislation to entrench the compulsory rights of Internet retransmitters in this country as the U.S. government has pointedly criticized Canada for flaws in its intellectual property laws.

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Tariff 22 decision hailed as victory for both sides though uncertainty remains

A May 1 decision by the Federal Court of Appeal on ISP copyright may not be the last the industry hears on the issue as the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) mulls a Supreme Court of Canada challenge on the issue of caching. While ISPs were ultimately deemed not liable for paying royalties on content such as music passing through their pipes (CNM Update, May 2/02), the Federal Court judges have opened the door to blanket or similar tariffs on caches operated by ISPs, which the court has determined service providers exercise control over. CAIP has until June 29 to file a challenge to the court’s ruling should it desire.

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Clock running out on C-48 as broadcasters, stakeholders urge further changes

The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage will likely review proposed legislation on Internet retransmission on May 27 and 28, but it’s still unknown how the regulations underlying the proposed law will take shape in the wake of last-minute changes recommended by several parties to the debate. While some stakeholders are couching their positions in conciliatory terms, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has maintained its silence in the run-up to clause-by-clause debate.

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CCR Update

CFTPA calls on gov’t to preserve secure place for Canadian programming
The government must ensure a continued place for Canadian programming in the Canadian broadcasting system, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage studying the state of the broadcasting system on May 9. "From the CFTPA’s perspective, the single most important element of the Broadcasting Act is its encouragement of the creation and exhibition of Canadian programming," said CFTPA chair Julia Keatley. "Otherwise, the system would be driven purely by commercial forces and we would end up with the same proportion of foreign content on our television screens that we see in our movie theaters, where the offering is 98 per cent foreign."

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