OTTAWA—The federal government should appoint an expert panel to study communications regulatory reform and come up with a roadmap on how to how to proceed on the prickly issue, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein says.

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OTTAWA—Opening up the Canadian telecommunications sector to more foreign investment would increase tax revenues and create fiscal room to fund more Canadian content, a University of Alberta economics professor told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, Thursday. 

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The federal government is poised to introduce a new copyright bill within the next six weeks that will include American-inspired anti-circumvention measures and reject flexible fair dealing, Michael Geist says.

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OTTAWA–Canadian content creators should be compensated for the illegal sharing and distribution of digital content through a broad levy collected at all distribution and storage points, including Internet services, storage devices, and mp3 players, the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) is proposing.

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