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CBC’s Tait says IP ownership has to remain front and centre of CanCon rules; Amazon disagrees

News | 02/03/2023 5:14 pm EST
CBC president Catherine Tait on Parliament Hill in April 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has said CanCon rules hinder getting Canadian stories to a world market, but CBC/ Radio-Canada’s president and CEO says “that’s not true.”

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