CreatureSphere important crack at edu-tainment market for Collideascope

Halifax-based Collideascope Entertainment is branching out into edutainment with an original interactive property on ecology it hopes to begin selling internationally early next year. The company is in the last stages of completing CreatureSphere before testing and hammering out distribution and content aggregator deals to put the innovative new concept in the hands of schoolchildren.

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Heritage follows through on copyright portal CCOP commitments with new cash

An Alberta-based company has received a second round of funding from Canadian Heritage to develop a copyright portal as the department follows through on a key Canadian Culture Online Program commitment. On December 2, Canadian Heritage announced a total of $2,746,530 in funding to three organizations to develop online tools to access copyrighted works and to pay the attendant royalties, including Calgary-based RightsMarket Inc.

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Aliant Telecom to seek experimental retransmission licence as C-11 clock ticks

The Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology took a scant hour-and-a-half on December 5 to recommend passage of Bill C-11 (formerly Bill C-48) without delay in the upper house. The recommendation comes despite a plea by Aliant Telecom Inc. to delay passage of the controversial legislation that will deny companies operating under the CRTC's New Media Exemption Order a compulsory licence to retransmit over-the-air television signals via the Internet. On December 9, the bill passed third reading without amendment.

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CNM Editorial

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.
 

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Change royalty structure or gov’t may step in to implement reforms: California report

After three lengthy hearings, the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry has issued its report on, among other things, reforms to the accounting practices of recording companies (CNM, Nov. 28/02). In the report, Senator Kevin Murray, committee chair, proposes that if the industry won't undertake changes on its own, government may step in with legislation. Following is the conclusion to that report. The full report can be found here.

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Robert Dubberley is no longer acting as executive director of the Canada-TELUS New Media Learning Fund or the BC Broadcast and New Media Fund as of November 30. Dubberly was a part-time contractor who oversaw the funds, and the company replaced him as "part of an overall approach at TELUS to reduce our reliance on contractors," according to a company spokesperson. Ray Moschuk, managing director of TELUS Ventures, will now oversee the TELUS New Media and Broadcast Fund as it evolves into a national fund "to reflect the national scope of Telus."

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Talking the dot com talk
As the year-end approaches and the Canadian new media sector appears poised for growth in 2003, we thought it would be interesting to take a look through our archives to see how industry language has changed. On an unscientific basis, the following chart illustrates the number of stories in a given year we wrote that contained at least one occurrence of the words listed.

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Finance committee report recommends changes to R&D funding mechanisms

The federal government should move quickly to make changes to the way it funds research and development in this country, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance recommends in its recently tabled report. The committee recognizes that the federal government has made headway in addressing concerns of industry players and advocates, but indicates that still more could be done.

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Innovation agenda survey highlights challenges for small and medium firms

Small- and medium-sized enterprises have told Ottawa that there is inadequate access to high-speed Internet services in the country, primarily in rural areas outside the most densely populated provinces and in northern communities. The implications, say respondents to an online poll conducted by Industry Canada, are that those areas are at a "severe disadvantage in terms of economic development and diversity, access to information, advanced educational tools (i.e. e-learning), and new online health services. This also makes it difficult for these areas to engage in virtual networks (e-clusters) and limits their ability to participate in and influence political agendas," writes the department.

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CreatureSphere important crack at edu-tainment market for Collideascope

Halifax-based Collideascope Entertainment is branching out into edutainment with an original interactive property on ecology it hopes to begin selling internationally early next year. The company is in the last stages of completing CreatureSphere before testing and hammering out distribution and content aggregator deals to put the innovative new concept in the hands of schoolchildren.

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