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Bruno Légaré has been appointed new media sector head at Telefilm Canada. Légaré replaces Earl Hong Tai, who previously held the two positions of new media sector head and director of the western region; he continues in the latter role. Légaré’s role will extend to contributing to defining the goals and orientations for Telefilm’s new media operations, as well as carrying out the sector’s operational business plan and coordinating the decision-making proecss. Légaré has been with the agency for five years, most recently as the new media director for French operations and the Quebec region. He started as a new media senior investment analyst in the Montreal office. Previously, he worked in senior producer, communications and sales management positions at cogniSicence Inc. and Inso.

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Market research and prototype winners announced by CNMF
Telefilm Canada has announced the results for its most recent funding round for the Canada New Media Fund’s market research and protyping phase envelopes. The agency will dole out $2.2 million for 2005-2006. The next deadline for all phase envelopes in the fund is October 19, 2005. In this round, 34 projects were approved. The full list of funding winners is available at www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/communiques/rel_593.asp.

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New copyright legislation proposed by the Liberal government has seen positive first reaction by many industry stakeholders, but public interest advocates warn that Bill C-60 is being unnecessarily rushed into law with serious defects. The bill, introduced into the House of Commons on June 21, contained few surprises, and, as expected, provides a new right of making available to performers and publishers, as well as providing legal protection for technological anti-hacking measures. As well, the bill would provide for a notice-and-notice system to protect ISPs from copyright liability. While arts groups, publishers, the record labels and ISPs are all singing the virtues of the bill, prominent groups and individuals warn that the proposed legislation would tip the balance of copyright law in this country in favour of rightsholders.

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