Tag Archives: new media

New media hearings, part one

Image via Wikipedia The CRTC held day two of their new media hearings today, with more to follow in a week. The goal is of the hearings is to figure out just what to do with this new fangled media, to discern whether incentives or regulation is required to encourage the spread of Canadian content. [...]

Promoting Canadian content through internet regulations: Call for comments

A few days ago the CRTC has opened up a public consultation regarding the exemption of regulation for new media. Among other things, new media contains the internet. The old exemption was from 1999 and now the CRTC is trying to decide whether or not it’s still appropriate. User generated content, that is any content [...]