LAW 723 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Telefilm Canada, Competition Bureau (Canada), Canadian Content
10 Feb 2016
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Telegraph and telephone: point to mass. Radios and television: broadcasting act, telecommunications act, radio communication act (phones) Crtc regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications: canadian radio-television and telecommunications, policies. Canadian reflection to foster communications system benefitting all canadians. Carriage and content: produce min amounts of canadian content, carry mandatory channels that are profitable, foreign ownership restrictions, no foreign companies licensed, isp carriage, program produces content, carriage. Hollywood, independent studies, telefilm canada funding: merging of point to mass, point to point, carriage, content. New media is decentralized, universally available, and user controlled. On a phone, all sorts of content is available, difficult to regulate. New media: services now make use of video, audio, graphics and alphanumeric texts w digital delivery over networks interconnected on a local or global scale. Escapes regulatory strictures of the crtc (content,hour) Neither at the moment, can be considered both broadcasting and telecommunications.
