CAB says CCTA has broken anti-piracy coalition in bid to bring U.S. channels here

Canada's private broadcasters say the cable industry has torn apart a coalition aimed at combating TV signal theft with its proposal to bring popular U.S. channels to the country. On June 18, the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) asked the CRTC to authorize the distribution of 17 U.S. channels for carriage on a digital basis only, including Family Net, Noggin, and Sundance Channel. The CRTC rejected the CCTA's request to make these three channels eligible for carriage in Canada two years ago because they were deemed either "totally or partially competitive" with existing Canadian specialty channels (Public Notice 2001-82).

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CCR Update

June 25, 2003

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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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CNM Newsmakers

Technological protection measures and "effective remedies": how much is enough?

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CNM People

D3 Management, Toronto, has appointed Sanjiv Purba as technology lead, leadership team, at the interactive agency. Purba is also a regular columnist at The Globe and Mail. Also at D3, Rick Brown has been named creative director. He has held previous positions at The Brainstorm Group, Vickers and Benson Advertising, and Ian Roberts Advertising, among others.

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CNM Short Takes

Partnership deals appear unaffected by MSN/Bell deal
A spokesperson for Bell Canada tells Canadian NEW MEDIA that, in the wake of a new portal partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Bell, third-party services such as the MUSICMATCH service (CNM, Oct. 3/02) will continue to operate in business-as-usual fashion. Once the co-branded portal is launched next year, Bell "will continue to be responsible for building third-party content partnerships for Canadians and will continue to offer our own and third-party services to our customers. The specific business arrangements for services such as MUSICMATCH are between Bell and its partners." The same spokesperson also says there are no changes to current agreements with value-added services partners, and that meetings are planned with those vendors to discuss the impact of the Bell/Microsoft deal. He adds, "Bell Canada will be responsible for Canadian content and its network of partners, while MSN will supply its applications and provide access to its network of partners. This strategic alliance has both organizations contributing their expertise and network of partners to deliver advanced Internet services. We’ll also be driving product innovation in areas such as home networking, mobile computing, security and multimedia messaging."

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Alliance numériQC decries “alarming” cuts to multimedia assistance in Quebec budget

The provincial budget handed down June 12 by the newly installed Liberal government in Quebec would reverse many of the gains achieved by the new media industry in the province, dispensing with the protection of generous government measures created and championed by the defeated Parti Québécois. The province’s main multimedia industry association, the Alliance numériQC, is still struggling to understand the budget’s ramifications even as it joins a new coalition of cultural groups opposing Finance minister Yves Séguin’s cutbacks.

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Games-only fund would help SMEs with leg up in lucrative gaming market: Oceanus

Barriers to entry into the lucrative games market are significant, especially for a company outside the major Canadian centres, but Ottawa’s Oceanus Communications has overcome these obstacles and scored an important publishing deal with Sega.com for its multiplayer online game Legacy Online.

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Heritage committee sends Bill C-36 to third reading with only minor amendments

Opponents of copyright term extensions were dealt a sudden blow June 17 when the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage voted to accept Bill C-36 with only minor amendments, and including provisions to lengthen copyright protection for some deceased authors.

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Hate-related web sites on rise but Canada scores high marks for enforcement

Officials from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) are praising Canada for its progressive legislation dealing with hate on the Internet, but at the release in Ottawa of the SWC’s annual study of the Internet, staff said further work remains to stop its propagation. Specifically, the group continues to push for a system of ensuring domain name registrants are traceable and using their real identities. But the group is pleased to report this year that no web sites it classifies as hate are currently set up in this country, said Toronto director Leo Adler and the center’s associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.

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