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Telus seeks to overturn CIRB arbitration ruling
Telus Corp. has filed an application with the Canada Industrial Relations Board asking it to reconsider its rulings that led to the western telco and the Telecommunications Workers Union submitting to binding arbitration on their contract negotiations. The company is also appealing to the Federal Court of Canada on the issues. Despite the legal moves, Telus and the TWU are still participating in the arbitration hearings.

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No cuts to TV and film tax credits: Meilleur

 

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The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has hired a senior industry administrator to lead the agency. Anna Bucci, former national director of finance and administration with the Alliance of Canadian Television and Radio Artists became executive director late last year. "The CPCC isn’t a far cry from being a start-up operation," Bucci says in a media release. "I’m looking forward to the challenge of working with the information management systems that are in place, and improving upon them as we go along. Our mandate is to get the money into the hands of rightsholders as quickly and efficiently as possible."

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"CopyLeft" indie music label launches royalty-free releases
Toronto-based Fading Ways Music is now selling all new CDs under a "CopyLeft/Creative Commons" licence. The licensing arrangement gives anyone the right to copy or share CDs and MP3 files so long as credit is given the artist and the user is not making the track or tracks available commercially. The company, founded in 1998, has over 30 titles released by over a dozen artists, and is distributed in 15 countries. Says Neil Leyton, label manager, in a media release: "Fading Ways will also provide an optional PayPal donations system for fans to contribute funds directly to their favourite artists should they be uploading or copying their music. Our goal here is two-fold: to counter the (Recording Industry Association of America)-induced notion that downloading is somehow wrong; and to provide the fans with a voluntary system by which they can congratulate and genuinely reward the artists’ work." The first two Fading Ways releases to be sold under the Creative Commons licence will be two new artist debuts: Red Orkestra’s After the Wars, and Jim Clements’ Kill Devil Hills.

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National Archives shifts direction with virtual exhibit of Winkworth collection

The National Archives of Canada has signalled a new direction for its online efforts in launching the new Peter Winkworth collection as a virtual exhibit. Rather than try to replicate a physical installation as some past projects have done, Archives officials are now using the web to gear collection sites toward both casual users and to hard-core researchers anxious to drill down into the available materials.

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ISPs pose daunting hurdle to third prong of music industry downloading strategy

Despite a brief court delay, the music industry could see the third prong of its attack on downloading proceed more quickly than either its private copying efforts or seeing a result in the Tariff 22 case now before the Supreme Court of Canada. On February 16, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) fired its first salvo against individuals who share music online by requesting a Federal Court of Canada order that five Internet service providers divulge the identity of 29 subscribers currently identified only by an IP address. The court adjourned until March 12 to determine the privacy considerations of such a request.

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Copyright extensions to be removed from Library and Archives merger bill: LaPierre

A potential legal twilight zone will likely be averted when the Senate drops controversial copyright provisions contained in Bill C-8 when the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology meets to discuss the legislation, possibly as soon as next week. The bill, which would merge the National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, was the cause of much head-scratching in the legal community since, if passed in its current form, it would put works newly released into the public domain back into the hands of the copyright owners, raising a host of thorny legal questions.

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Data-mining key to integrating advertising, TV and interactive content: Bell Fund report

Broadcasters must integrate consumer demand for interactive products into their high-level business plans to capitalize on new technological possibilities for data-mining and business intelligence, suggests a new report prepared for the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. The study, Fiscal Reality Television, looks at the business practices of several leading North American companies in the new media production chain and concludes that without a high-level strategy to marry advertising, broadcasting, and interactive content with the potential to analyze consumer bases, broadcasters are likely losing an important opportunity to capitalize on their various assets.

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