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Media Awareness Network, Canadian libraries launch education campaign

The Media Awareness Network (MNet) has launched a high-profile campaign in association with Bell Canada and the Canadian Library Association (CLA) to equip parents with resources to help guide their children safely on the Internet. Unveiled during Canada’s first Web Awareness Day on February 20, libraries across the country will begin promoting the materials available from MNet, including online educational materials, printed brochures and checklists. Participating libraries will also begin hosting public workshops and open houses, launching joint initiatives with community groups, and announcing upcoming web awareness projects both in their branches and on their web sites.

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Record labels employ positive, upbeat messaging to combat downloading

The Canadian music industry is taking a soft-glove approach to discourage peer-to-peer downloading among youth. On March 4, a coalition of record labels, retailers, copyright collectives, broadcasters and others launched a Value of Music campaign to teach kids about the connection between music purchasing and the music industry, a made-in-Canada tack that stands in stark contrast to the finger-wagging campaigns seen south of the border.

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WIFT-T to undertake broad study of Canada’s “screen media” sector

Women in Film and Television –Toronto (WIFT-T) has embarked on an ambitious study to profile Canada’s "screen-based media," which include film, television and new media. The study will be the first of its kind in 10 years, says WIFT-T president and past chair Kate Hanley, and will report on a broad number of industry-defining parameters with a view to helping government make appropriate policy decisions. With a raft of heavyweight partners on the project’s steering committee and deep-pocketed confirmed and to-be-confirmed financing partners on board, the study promises to be one of the most comprehensive yet of the broad Can-adian entertainment industry.

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Blank media levy is unconstitutional, Copyright Board hears in final arguments

The Copyright Board of Canada’s hearing on proposed new blank recording media tariffs wrapped up with oral arguments February 17 and 18, with anti-levy forces decrying the tariff as unconstitutional while rights groups argued that nothing has changed since a 1999 board ruling that allowed collections to proceed.

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Industry pleased with new Competition Bureau guidelines on Internet advertising

The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) is applauding new guidelines on online advertising published by the Competition Bureau that appear to leave the association’s members off the hook for misrepresentative claims made by others. The final guidelines represent a reversal in policy from a May 2001 draft of the guidelines that would have opened Internet service providers (ISPs) to liability if they hosted misleading advertisements from non-Canadian sources (CNM, June 14/01 and Sept. 6/01).

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CCR Update

March 5, 2003

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

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BCE Inc. may be gearing up for some major regulatory and competitive battles in the coming months as the communications giant has significantly beefed up its roster of competition and regulatory legal expertise. Noted competition and trade lawyer Lawson Hunter has joined the company as executive VP. Currently a partner at Stikeman Elliott, Hunter has had an extensive career in both the private and public sector. In the public domain, he has served as director of investigation and research under the Competition Act and assistant deputy minister with responsibility for the Bureau of Competition Policy. Hunter is regarded as the primary author of the country's 1986 Competition Act. In the private sector, he has advised a wide variety of national and multinational companies on regulatory and competition issues.

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Industry Canada extends licensing fee comment period
Industry Canada has extended the comment period for the current consultation on a proposal to harmonize the spectrum licensing regime and fee structure. The new deadline for comments is March 14. Last December, the department released DGRB-004-02, which seeks to set up a common licensing regime and fee structure for the country's mobile wireless operators (RoW Update, Jan. 13/03). The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association plans to use the venue to bolster its message that the industry pays too much into federal coffers for use of the public resource. According to CWTA figures, the wireless industry pays approximately $10 per subscriber in spectrum licence fees compared to the U.S. level of about $0.40 per subscriber (RoW, Jan. 20/03). The department has previously indicated that it doesn't envision lowering the total amount of fees paid by the wireless operators. However, those that more efficiently use spectrum will be rewarded as they will pay the same as those with less capacity (RoW, April 17/01).

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Annual telecommunications conference pushed back to spring 2004

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) and Reed Exposition Canada have pushed back Canada's annual telecommunications conference to the spring of 2004, a more convenient time of year says the chief lobbyist for Canada's wireless industry. EXPO COMM Canada Communications 2004 will take place on May 4 and 5 and will once again be held in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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